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February 18, 2012 by eubie

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-02-18

RT @btabke: Why Pinterest Is Playing Dumb About Making Money – Alexis Madrigal – Technology – The Atlantic http://t.co/s1hckmai #
Reuters' U.S. News Push Signs on Yahoo, AOL, http://t.co/q3D134ow http://t.co/Cq7h8fLv via @adage #
RT @karaswisher: Twitter + Robots = Instant Stories, No Humans Required http://t.co/9zLOQQkZ #
Apple owe's Google a favor for stepping into the spotlight about iPhone privacy — Google Tracked iPhones http://t.co/huQGw2gh @WSJ #
Absolutely! Journalism Teachers Should Give Format-Agnostic Assignments http://t.co/fA2Jy7vm #
"100 percent of the time it was better to rent, rather than own." http://t.co/NDPVZj4q via @reuters #
Google+ SEO Guides from Search Engine Land http://t.co/DPVYXvcQ via @sengineland #
Cover letters still key in job search http://t.co/dvl5IA76 via @bbjonline #jobs #
Harvard makes nanorobot from DNA that find and destroy cancer cells http://t.co/927QOevY via @BBJNewsroom #
How Much Do Sports Fans Love Social Media? [INFOGRAPHIC] http://t.co/gErVQijd via @mashable #
Is Path privacy controversy a wake-up call? http://t.co/toFSlCkj #
ProPublica seeks help with Murdoch’s Circle: The Growing News International Scandal http://t.co/x6r9yMZC via @propublica #
Not surprising the U.S. uses lots of freshwater — Tracking How the World Guzzles Water: http://t.co/a5RUxGAy #
Secrets of the single largest Amway Corp. distributor in the world, http://t.co/EVqUUDE1 via @WSJ #
Pew Research: Who Advertises on News Sites and How Much Those Ads are Targeted http://t.co/RYcTLxfb #
CNBC digital sets records in January http://t.co/uEVqmeQV via @talkingbiznews #
What do the bosses do all day? About a third of their time is spent in meetings http://t.co/afInxEIg via @WSJ #
Job recruiters prefer LinkedIn, Twitter to Facebook http://t.co/sJ18l9sO via @SVSJbizjournal #
RT @nickkristof: Here's what the NY Times is planning in social media, via @lheron: http://t.co/GYTQn31C What else should we do? #
Google Knowledge Graph Could Change Search Forever http://t.co/nWNDmPUS via @mashable #
@talkingbiznews Bloomberg Pursuit publishing "stories that only magazines can convey" http://t.co/UQajsTby #
U.S. Air Force May Buy 18,000 Apple IPad2s for Flight Crews – Businessweek http://t.co/ExfHhgSW via @BW #
Missed Super Bowl, Frantic Talks Led to $25 Billion Bank Deal – Businessweek http://t.co/ryiskUGe via @BW #
How we're experimenting with member station content on NPR's Facebook page http://t.co/FJrZlJut via @#!/nprdigitalsvcs #
How NPR drove traffic to a local station by geotargeting stories on Facebook http://t.co/DzOfR2yI via @NiemanLab #
Ron Chernow: The Leadership Secrets of George Washington — "they need to respect you" http://t.co/HB7m3bwd via @WSJ #
Narrowing the gap between old and new media is the future http://t.co/nmVFg78K via @the_irish_times #
“The Economist’s shift to digital”- Tom Standage at news:rewired http://t.co/CdkYNken via @currybet #

February 11, 2012 by eubie

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-02-11

Charlotte banks owe U.S. Treasury $139 million from bailout http://t.co/WWVKfele via @CBJnewsroom #
Zaslow's article on Randy Pausch — A Beloved Professor Delivers The Lecture of a Lifetime http://t.co/aPGL1bBI via @WSJ #
WSJ' Jeffrey Zaslow killed in crash — his article about Randy Pausch was a favorite of mine. http://t.co/J67oDXrw via @WSJ #
James Earl Ray videotapes discovered in Memphis http://t.co/16UN8BrD via @MBJMemphis #
No more Kodak Brownies, no more Pocket Instamatics and now no more digitals. http://t.co/0Xhu3r02 via @BfloBizFirst #
@s_huntington @TheTinKitchen Passed by today and was tempted.Now it's on my to-do list. #
For Multitaskers, Multiple Monitors Improve Office Efficiency: http://t.co/7i3mcU7T #
@so_sohini That's something discussed in the interviews. #
Why we are buying paidContent http://t.co/7Ub0Bkcn #
PaidContent joining wiith GigaOM http://t.co/Pi9AWHCC via @paidContent #
Social media at The New York Times: aiming to be different and meaningful — http://t.co/hUaOkeRu http://t.co/awd9CeRC #
U.S. Rep. Sue Myrick won't seek re-election http://t.co/GK66lhhO via @CBJnewsroom #clt #
@Urvaksh. It would. #
N.C. pension system investments returned 2.1% in 2011 http://t.co/QRjBAIm0 via @TriangleBIZJrnl #
ACBJ national content team is hiring an Assistant Editor, Content Optimization for @bizjournals. Details: http://t.co/m9WkYv9V #jobs #clt #
BMW learns naming weather systems after cars could be a mistake http://t.co/JGvH3mUl via @WSJ #
It’s Not Whether Google’s Threatened. It’s Asking Ourselves: What Commons Do We Wish For? http://t.co/jZsuKKpY via @johnbattelle #
@davewiner I'm not going back to Facebook, no matter what Scoble says. http://t.co/RCc6g3Iz #
@verge: Social media harder to resist than cigarettes, according to study http://t.co/UvywHh3A #

February 9, 2012 by eubie

Flickr Commons, a collaboration between the photo-sharing site and the Library of Congress that began in 2008, has released 17 of its most-popular photos to celebrate its fourth anniversary. The project began as an effort to increase exposure to some of the world’s historic photographic treasu…

February 9, 2012 by eubie

Flickr Commons

Treasures from Flickr Commons

http://mashable.com/2012/02/09/flickr-commons-popular/

February 7, 2012 by eubie

Feb. 7 Google Doodle — a favorite

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February 7, 2012 by eubie

Feb. 7 Google Doodle — a favorite

February 4, 2012 by eubie

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-02-04

When forecast return is double what Buffet projects, I say yes. Are Pension Forecasts Way Too Sunny? http://t.co/CYh1DvIt via @WSJ #
via @TheOnion – 'Huffington Post' Employee Sucked Into Aggregation Turbine http://t.co/OAhKsW0G #
RT @niemanlab: The Atlantic Wire's Gabriel Snyder on the false dichotomy of aggregation and becoming a 24/7 outlet http://t.co/afMwbcz9 #
"Abraham Lincoln vs. The Zombies,” reminds me of the giant-bug sci-fi movies of the 50s. http://t.co/a732dKRo #
How Do the Top 100 Metro Areas Rank on Racial and Ethnic Equity? http://t.co/6c24DuL9 via @urbaninstitute #
A dream job — NASA says more than 6,000 applied to be an astronaut. http://t.co/9HsmIoh7 via @HOUBizjournal #
Reuters & Klout 50 — The Most Influential Execs on the Web http://t.co/xc4dT8td #
'Think before you act' and more rules for journalists on Twitter http://t.co/TFvrmBeK via @ojr #
Red-light camera catches Tampa man stealing cattle http://t.co/CWEg4W09 via @tbbjnewsroom #
Facebook files for $5B IPO. That would eclipse Google's IPO of $2B http://t.co/l3HIYvh2 via @SVSJbizjournal #
Bank of America to sell Hearst Tower, Fifth Third Center http://t.co/Fzcg3e1z via @CBJnewsroom #
No sandwich tweets: Be Better at Twitter: The Definitive, Data-Driven Guide – The Atlantic http://t.co/U34g9QBW #
The New Yorker’s David Remnick Moves Beyond the Magazine (Video) http://t.co/F1ZLf7TH via @AllThingsD #
Even as e-readers Increase, about half of book buyers resist the devices http://t.co/FnpDHUpN via @paidContent #
New Labor Department Rules Will Require Fee Disclosures on 401(k) Plans http://t.co/EyFchXgq via @WSJ #
RT @bizjournalism: News on the web: @latimes reports it had a record year on the web… http://t.co/iOy58j6s overall pageviews up 28% #
Security checklist for newsrooms when using Twitter: #Security https://t.co/u3DeY6MM #
Good advice in a quick dose — RT @guykawasaki: How to get more clicks on Twitter http://t.co/1VQxSdJh #
Twitter Upgrades Will Include Analytical Tools by @CopeWrites http://t.co/vdNVc9f7 via @RWW #
Corporate blogs in the Inc. 500 decline, replaced by Facebook and LinkedIn @dstrom http://t.co/YZFXz3Pj via @RWW #
@vincrosbie acknowledged for finding shortcoming in Filloux's plan @guardian http://t.co/Ed9gp8W5 #
Frédéric Filloux's continues refining the digital business model for a large-staff newspaper http://t.co/RTotLfm1 #
As a youth I thought "Desiderata" was hundreds of years old. It written in 1927. http://t.co/QOZydEsV #
Dying Steve Jobs kept Bill Gates' letter by his bed http://t.co/DoMXnYC1 via @SVSJbizjournal #
Google's Business Photos should help businesses improve their online image http://t.co/CyQbRvzI via @sengineland #
@wxbrad Today's Google Doogle is weather history? Largest recorded snowflake. #

January 31, 2012 by eubie

> Priceless: How I Went Undercover to Rescue the World’s Stolen Treasures by Robert K. Wittman, John Shiffman. One of the nice things about browsing through a library. You see a book, pick it up and find yourself hooked. I enjoyed the book and learning about the economics of art thefts.

January 28, 2012 by eubie

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-01-28

NLRB warns employers about broad social media policies http://t.co/YspUOFl1 via @bizjournals #
#CLT Mayor Foxx running for N.C. governor's vacant seat raises chance he could run again Pat McCrory http://t.co/JEUE98Wm #
N.C. Gov. Perdue won’t seek second term, sources say http://t.co/oVYMCJSU #
NFL Will Allow Players to Tweet Inside the Pro Bowl http://t.co/wkSp35Yv via @mashsocialmedia @mashable #
Headline I wish I'd written: There are now more iPhones sold than babies born in the world every day http://t.co/xtlOdUnR via @TNW #
Ex-Panther Muhsin Muhammad's investor group buys Wild Wing Cafe http://t.co/wqV9W245 via @CBJnewsroom #
So that was why the parking lot was full –New Wal-Mart opens on Independence today http://t.co/EfUXj6VO #
4 Alternatives to Online Photo Editor Picnik http://t.co/tDhq8Ljp via @mashable #
The Industries that spent the most on Google AdWords http://t.co/4Q4TtsSV via @WordStream #
Facebook Timeline Now Pushed To Everyone, Users Get A Week To Clean Up Profiles http://t.co/xbjtzT9W via @techcrunch #
Disney decides other male workers can join Grumpy, Doc and Happy and have facial hair. http://t.co/KBGbWvKI via @OBJUpdate #
Fanfarlo's new record "Rooms Filled with Light" will be in U.S. stores Feb. 28. Good news. http://t.co/nNDt4RZy #
I wonder what a Santorum sweater vest will bring on ebay? http://t.co/ueMKHFsU via @mspbjnews #
Pew study: Tablet and E-book reader Ownership Nearly Double Over the Holiday Gift-Giving Period http://t.co/iSRzFicl #
The coffee and lunch you buy at work total to $3K a year. #packalunch http://t.co/GWwjC7Lb via @portfoliodotcom #
Trending in classic car market: pickups, vintage motorcyles and early Japanese cars http://t.co/ugUKJPsz via @phxbizjournal #
CoTweet Gone: Here Are 7 Great Alternatives http://t.co/lAdv2hs3 via @mashable #
Mapping The Link Between Obesity And Car Driving http://t.co/pzNfxxU1 via @FastCoExist #
@davewiner tries to configure an iPad with his mother and finds it too challenging for non-techies. http://t.co/LaceWQye #
Sad to see Picnik closing. It was good tool for a wide range of photographers. http://t.co/mIWYPjyR #
Inside Megaupload's Megamind: Kim Dotcom's Playboy Bunnies, Russian Nuclear Vessels, etc. http://t.co/26cWIcIU via @fastcompany #
Colleges and companies try merit badge concept from Boy Scouts http://t.co/c7ndgWEk via @WSJ #
I'm an #entrepreneur fan more than a Pat's fan — 8 former Patriots who tackled business http://t.co/1wbsVpYZ via @BBJNewsroom #

January 26, 2012 by eubie

breakingblog:
We’ve passed a big milestone over on Breaking News’ Facebook page: 100,000 likes! True, this is a pretty modest Facebook audience compared to many other major brands. But unlike some of those brands, Breaking News is still a relatively new entity in the news ecosystem. We launched our …

Inside Breaking News: 5 tips to grow your Facebook page from scratch