Huffington Post:
Feminist blogger Kate Harding often takes issue with how cynical the progressives on Daily Kos write about abortion politics, but on Nov. 10, they found some common ground. Two days after the House voted to approve health ca (Read More)
TechCrunch:
Yesterday, Twitter changed its organizing question from “What Are You Doing?” to “What’s Happening?” But if you want to know what’s really happening now, check out Hot Potato, a startup launching right now at our Realtime Cr (Read More)
TechCrunch:
We’re here at the second TechCrunch RealTime CrunchUp in San Francisco, where we’ll be taking a deeper dive into realtime technology and where the streams are taking us. Kicking off the event is a conversation with Twitter CO (Read More)
TechCrunch:
Opening our RealTime CrunchUp event today in San Francisco is Twitter COO Dick Costolo. Our own Michael Arrington and Steve Gillmor are sitting down with Costolo for a 30 minute conversation.Twitter is one of the hottest play (Read More)
MAKE Magazine:
NEC announced what could be an early, real-life version of the universal translator -NEC said the Tele Scouter was intended to be a business tool that could aid sales staff who would have information about a client's buying h (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
Editor's note: we offer our long-term sponsors the opportunity to write 'Sponsor Posts' and tell their story. These posts are clearly marked as written by sponsors, but we also want them to be useful and interesting to our re (Read More)
Valleywag:
Twitter today announced it will prompt users to post by asking "What's happening?" rather than the old "What are you doing?" We asked a prominent linguist if this means anything. Turns out it does: Twitterers are no longer su (Read More)
Huffington Post:
Last night, at my son's 3rd grade pot luck, while munching on spicy sesame noodles and sipping red wine, I got into an animated conversation with a mom I'd never talked to before about personal branding. She's in between jobs (Read More)
Huffington Post:
Judging by a short conversation with him, director Roland Emmerich doesn't seem megalomaniacal. In fact, he seems so down-home and unassuming, that you just want to grab him, a beer--being the good German that he is--and sit (Read More)
MSNBC:
From NBC's Ken StricklandSenate Majority Leader Harry Reid today said the crucial vote to bring the legislation to the floor will happen "sometime" Saturday. But he was uncertain he had to 60 votes required to start debate. " (Read More)
Huffington Post:
The Language Monitor has come up with the most commonly used words of the decade as part of their annual survey of the English language. The survey uses a mathematical formula to measure the popularity of word use both online (Read More)
Huffington Post:
Conan O'Brien responded to an angry Kirstie Alley last night after she tweeted that the "Tonight Show" host acts like she "bit his d**k off." The tweets were part of conversation with Star Jones who bemoaned being called fat (Read More)
New York Times:
Toby Gerhart, a senior tailback who is also a professional baseball prospect, has stiff-armed convention, critics and convenience while insinuating himself into the Heisman conversation.
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The Huffington Post | Full News Feed:
Matthew Hoh and Daniel Ellsberg, recently sat down for a conversation about the war in Afghanistan. Matthew Hoh made headlines late last month when he resigned from the U.S. State Department. Hoh, 36, became the first known U (Read More)
New York Times:
A conversation with the Dutch design star, whose multimedia exhibition opens at the Philadelphia Museum of Art on Sunday.
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New York Times:
Toby Gerhart, a senior tailback who is also a professional baseball prospect, has stiff-armed convention, critics and convenience while insinuated himself into the Heisman conversation.
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Boing Boing:
Saul Griffith is an inventor and entrepreneur. He did his PhD at MIT in programmable matter, exploring the relationship between bits and atoms, or information and materials. Since leaving MIT, he has co-founded a number of te (Read More)
Mashable!:
David Spinks is a graduating senior in NY that is utilizing the power of social web communities to pursue a career in social media/marketing. He authors a blog at DavidSpinks.com.There is an almost overwhelming number of opti (Read More)
SheGeeks:
Social media is such a huge distraction sometimes. New followers, new replies, new private messages! Oh look, there goes a new Twitter list. It starts to become easy for us take our eyes off the real ball: our work. We s (Read More)