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May 15, 2010 by eubie

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-05-15

@bizjouranls: Should nuclear power supply more energy in the U.S.? http://bizj.us/9ustp #
Is it time for National Entrepreneurs' Day? Here's the petition web site — http://entrepreneursday.org/ #
People love bargains. Four of our top 10 stories Monday were about JetBlue's $10 tickets one-day offer http://ow.ly/1JAtZ #
@ScottHepburn continuing to watch the news media change. in reply to ScottHepburn #
Did a Big Bet Help Trigger 'Black Swan' Stock Swoon? http://on.wsj.com/bVVdYL #WSJ #
@ScottHepburn: Social Networking Advice That Never Gets Old http://ow.ly/1zVui #
The Guardian Online invites users to build apps with its data. The key word is "invite" instead of the typical "allows" http://ow.ly/1JmkT #
RT @bizjournals Anheuser-Busch's deal to be the official beer of the NFL is worth $1.2 billion: http://bizj.us/9udtp #
Computers out of synch. NYTimes: Post-Mortem of Wall St. Plunge Puts Focus on Computer Trades http://nyti.ms/cXOI2p #
More fright than truth? Battling the Cyber Warmongers http://on.wsj.com/dAGEJ3 #WSJ #
Devolpments from Chronium. NYTimes: Test Flights Into the Google Cloud http://nyti.ms/9pqKc3 #
Computer Trading Is Eyed http://on.wsj.com/a8dbzE #WSJ #

May 12, 2010 by eubie

Google squared and semantic search

ReadWriteWeb: Google Adds Semantic Search Results with Google Squared

The holy grail in web search technology is to be able to ask a simple question, in natural language, and get a simple answer. With Google’s announcement today of Google Squared coming to its search results, the search engine has moved one step closer to that grail.

May 12, 2010 by eubie

I’m concerned about Facebook and I’m over 35

ReadWriteWeb: Concerned About Facebook? You’re Probably Getting Old

May 12, 2010 by eubie

Part-time and profitable – Crain’s New York Business

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May 10, 2010 by eubie

WordPress 3.0: The 5 Most Important New Features

The two items that sound most interesting are:

Custom post types

You might even want to turn your WordPress site into something more like Tumblr. This will be easy to do in WordPress 3.0 simply by creating custom post types for Text, Photo, Quote, Link, Chat, Audio, and Video.

Menu Management

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May 10, 2010 by eubie

List of local news sites of various styles

Michelle Lee: Promising local news sites

May 8, 2010 by eubie

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-05-08

Fun in CLT next week. NASCAR hall of fame opens and NRA annual convention. #
Newsweek on Block as Era of the Newsweekly Fades – http://nyti.ms/dknEsd #
RT @MichaelHyatt Downtown Nashville is flooded on 1st and 2nd Avenue from the Cumberland River, which overflowed its banks. #

May 7, 2010 by eubie

What happens after the newspaper closes

High Country News: Former Rockey Mountain News reporter reflects on his time since the paper closed.

Some mornings I still wake full of resentment about the newspaper’s closing. I’m still feeling divorce aftershock. Three months ago, I stopped paying the mortgage. Last winter, to survive, I sold off some of my camera equipment. I’m still not sure how I will make ends meet.

But on most mornings I feel like the luckiest man alive. If I was still employed at the Rocky, I would have never written a novel or traveled to Africa; I wouldn’t have floated the San Juan and Salmon rivers with my sons, worked for Mrs. Li, hammered nails, fired up a chainsaw, or looked at a hundred happy dancing brides.

May 7, 2010 by eubie

Wondering as I walk

From talking a walk in the spring.

what caused Thursday stock spike
bees and how we depend on them
bikes and mass transit for commuting
hiking
archery
Ubuntu and other ways for low-cost, accessible computing
woodworking

May 7, 2010 by eubie