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  • macbook touch - Gizmodo
    Those of you clamoring for an Apple tablet may finally get what you've been waiting for. According to a MacDailyNews source who leaked wireless iTunes a week before its official announcement, we can expect a sort of "MacBook touch" in October.
    (tags: via:rwanderman macbook mac touch rumor technology)
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  • Hippies wanted - Brattleboro Reformer
    An Academy Award-winning director needs you (or your children or grandchildren) to return to your counterculture roots for his latest film.
    (tags: vermont brattleboro hippies movie extras)
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  • Journalist saved by Twitter aims to start a Twitter-driven emergency network | The Industry Standard
    The story made headlines around the world: James Buck, a graduate student at the University of California at Berkeley, was detained in Mahalla, Egypt for documenting local riots. His last act before being taken into custody: Tweeting “Arrested” to fri
    (tags: technologyarticles research twitter web web2.0 emergency humanitarian)
  • Weblogg-ed » What I Hate About Twitter
    I’ve liked Twitter since I first started playing with it last year, but there are some things that are really starting to annoy me about these 140-character “conversations” that we’re carrying on there, server issues notwithstanding.
    (tags: microblogging socialmedia web2.0 twitter)
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  • Study abroad through Second Life | csmonitor.com
    When a group at Ohio University in Athens created a video tour of the school’s virtual Second Life campus, Christopher Keesey expected that it would be, by and large, for the OU community.
    (tags: studyabroad education innovation international news web2.0 secondlife)
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  • 4 ways the travel industry discriminates against singles - CNN.com
    The dreaded single supplement -- charging solo guests up to twice a couple's rate -- isn't new. If you travel by yourself, and stay in a room or cabin meant for two, you'd expect to pay a little more
    (tags: travel singles)
  • State of the Art - For iPhone, the ‘New’ Is Relative - NYTimes.com
    One year and 11 days ago, our nation was swept by iPhone Mania. TV news coverage was relentless. Hard-core fans camped out to be the first in line. Bloggers referred to Apple’s new product as the “Jesus phone.”
    (tags: iphone davidpogue review technologyarticles)
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  • BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | Thai troops 'cross into Cambodia'
    About 40 Thai troops have crossed into Cambodian territory in the latest flare-up of a dispute over an ancient temple, Cambodian officials have said.
    (tags: cambodia thailand military ancienttemples preahvihear)
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  • Don't Run Out To Buy An iPhone Today - Faster Forward
    Whether you love, like or are just curious about the iPhone 3G, I'll recycle my modest suggestion from a year ago: Don't line up at a store to buy one today unless you absolutely need it.
    (tags: iphone news technology)
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  • Op-Ed Columnist - An Ideal Husband - Op-Ed - NYTimes.com
    This weekend, we celebrate our great American pastime: messy celebrity divorces. Skip to next paragraph

    Go to Columnist Page »

    There’s the Christie Brinkley/Peter Cook fireworks on Long Island and the Madonna/Guy Ritchie/A-Rod Roman candle in New Yor


    (tags: marriage, op-ed)



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  • How Every Flickr Photo Ended Up on Sale This Weekend | JMG-Galleries - Jim M. Goldstein Photography: travel, landscape, and nature pictures - stock photos and fine art prints
    There have been many stories over the past few years about copyright infringement on Flickr.
    (tags: flickr news photography security via:rwanderman)
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  • Twitter, What Are You Doing? Co-Founder Tells All : NPR
    Like so many of the best ideas, the concept for Twitter.com took root among a few people toying around on the job.
    (tags: twitter socialnetworking networks, failwhale)
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  • Microsoft Seeks Path Beyond the Gates Legacy - NYTimes.com
    Bill Gates is retiring, sort of. He is still only 52, and he is going off to spend more time guiding the world’s richest philanthropy, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
    (tags: gates philanthropy microsoft)
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  • Introducing Prologue « WordPress.com
    We’re fans of Twitter around here, in fact many Automatticians have accounts, but while the format appealed to us it really just whetted our appetite for something more...
    (tags: blog blogging collaboration community social twitter wordpress)
  • Amazon's Bezos Invests in Twitter - ReadWriteWeb
    Twitter just announced yet another sum of funding, this including money from Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezo's fund Bezos Expeditions.
    (tags: twitter, amazon, blog)
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  • Ethiopia in Food Crisis Once More - The Big Picture - Boston.com
    Recent crop failures, drought conditions and the current high price of food have plunged Ethiopia into another food crisis, reminiscent of the famines of 1984-85 which killed over 1 million.
    (tags: photography, ethiopia, food crisis, humanitarian emergency)
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    Kerry, me, and Katherine at our 8th grade graduation from Haven Middle School in Evanston, Illinois.

    It's particularly fitting that we celebrated this occasion together because we all began school together as infants at Chiravalle Montessori school and then for a time went our separate academic ways.

    Our different paths separated us and brought us back again, for one last year of school together. Then I moved to Maryland, and Kerry soon transferred to a different high school, yet I stayed in close touch with both, and continue to do so.

    We had a mini-reunion back in the spring when Kerry came to visit, and this weekend we made a more concerted effort to hang out again - this time where it all began.

    Looking forward to a weekend of fun and friends with the two oldest friends (really sisters) I have. Nearly 30 years, gals. How many women at 30 can say that?

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  • Starting a Social Media Strategy | chrisbrogan.com
    This post begins a small series within the Social Media 100 series where we can start discussing the parts and premises of building a social media strategy. I’ll want your help with this. We can build this collaboratively, and I believe that the end res
    (tags: blog socialmedia socialnetworking strategy)
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