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July 30, 2011 by eubie

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-07-30

Cricket at #CLT schools? Why not Aussie Rules instead? http://t.co/bDWpdMW #
WSJ.com – Twitter Tests New Ad Types http://t.co/E75sk1O #
Leisure job growth is on the rise in 34 states — led by Texas, NY, Mass. and N.C. http://t.co/nTi08no via @bizjournals #
WSJ.com – What's Wrong With America's Job Engine? http://t.co/8xox0Tt #
Batman crew to arrive in Pittsburgh for filming http://t.co/r8rBVhR via @PghBizTimes #
RT @BizJournalism: Study analyzes words you use on Twitter and that that says about you… via @fastcompany http://bit.ly/pxQZZr #
RT @TechFlash: Amazon: sales soared 51 percent; net income decreases 8 percent http://bit.ly/oc8aua #
Netflix dives on mixed earnings, rate hike anger http://t.co/1qDH3Sq via @SVSJbizjournal #
Texas takes midyear employment crown; Louisiana and North Dakota are runners-up http://t.co/Tjo9p0L via @bizjournals #
Chromebooks starting at $349, hmm. http://ow.ly/5N6n1 #
A power outage is never a good thing. #
See how your city ranks on getting to work early — Mondays included. http://t.co/AJSzI24 via @bizjournals #
SEO Tips for Search Engine Optimization http://lnkd.in/UZZs8Z #
Meet the Sister CEOs http://on.wsj.com/oZLxht #WSJ #
Simple Passwords Open Door to Hackers http://on.wsj.com/pX4Gp5 #WSJ #
Why Apple's Success Isn't Spreading http://on.wsj.com/pWRlqi #WSJ #

July 23, 2011 by eubie

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-07-23

RT @TechFlash: Hulu: the hot online video service everbody is rumored to want http://bit.ly/pnSgtc #
RT @CBJbanknews: Branford Marsalis not coming to CLT on 10/29 after all — says Wells Fargo #
Pearle Vision founder dies http://t.co/6S88BFS via @DBJinsight #
Branford Marsalis will perform a free outdoor concert uptown #CLT Oct. 29 http://t.co/HBlAQnm via @CBJnewsroom #
See which U.S. towns leave for work the earliest http://t.co/AJSzI24 via @bizjournals #
WSJ.com – Hackers Shift Attacks to Small Firms http://on.wsj.com/oUS6bU #
Microsoft revenue up 8 percent, Windows revenue down http://ow.ly/5KvzC #
NFL owners vote 31-0 to ratify collective bargaining agreement http://t.co/EYBVefd via @PSBJ #
Forbes Media Makes Minority Investment in Startup of Ex-Fortune Editor http://ow.ly/5K8Jz #
Or at least the NY Times. RT @techflash: Is Amazon Kindle helping save the newspaper industry? http://bit.ly/nKaju7 #
America’s oldest homes are in Pennsylvania, New York and Massachusetts http://t.co/Nw7mP5H via @bizjournals #
Wells Fargo fined $85M over subprime mortgage practices http://t.co/mXX3iEK via @SFBusinessTimes #
Female managers earn 30 percent less than male counterparts http://t.co/CZLzPcK via @bizjournals #
MN CEO buys Warren Buffett's childhood home http://t.co/2LYKbC0 via @mspbjnews #
RT @comscore: LinkedIn Assumes #2 Spot among U.S. Social Networking Sites http://t.co/02Yp8Ra via @datagems #
FDA looks to regulate medical smartphone apps @TechFlas http://ow.ly/5ID56 #
Clorox tells Icahn no thanks http://t.co/XS3dHQF via @SFBusinessTimes #
The Harry Potter economy: Does Gringotts Wizarding Bank need a bailout? http://t.co/TbFY6RK via @bizjournalsLA #
RT @bizjournals: Harry Potter sets all-time records at box office: http://bizj.us/b309x #HP7 #
RT @techflash: Amazon offers e-book rental for college students http://bit.ly/mWru00 #
Indiana leans more heavily on manufacturing than any other state http://t.co/JAzvfns via @bizjournals #

July 9, 2011 by eubie

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-07-09

RT @comscore: Where in the world is instant messaging most popular? Top IM Markets Worldwide http://t.co/teepd9i via @datagems #
RT @portfoliodotcom: say goodbye to the good old 9-to-5 http://bit.ly/rpagcf #
Just one-third? One-third of business owners work more than 40 hours per week http://t.co/jJbYJWs via @bizjournals #
RT @jayrosen_nyu: The Economist: In the internet age, transparency may count for more than objectivity http://jr.ly/civw #
RT @portfoliodotcom: How youth is an advantage for twentysomething entrepreneurs: http://bit.ly/r7WsDk #
Madison, Wis., enjoys lowest unemployment rate of 21st century http://t.co/WJ8U0WQ via @bizjournals #
SEC chairman admits to leasing errors in D.C. http://t.co/NXZGWUO via @WBJonline #
RT @techflash: Nielsen: Games most popular apps on mobile devices http://bit.ly/noKd71 #
Southwest: Layoffs not part of merger http://t.co/2Nnkyjd via @DBJinsight #
Marvel heroes join forces with Dallas Cowboys http://t.co/in1pj7C via @bizjournalsLA #
How we connect by phone and SMS — The Connected States of America http://t.co/xoD4jC6 via @mashable #
Murdoch advertisers get nervous over hacking claims – Yahoo! News http://t.co/Nidx4zv via @YahooNews #
RT @bizjournals: Android leads U.S. smartphone market, Microsoft slips http://bizj.us/b2wqf @TechFlash #
Amazon Tax: Bad for big boxes, bad for mom and pop? http://t.co/zOv0HQR via @SFBusinessTimes #
RT @jeffelder: Google retiring the brands Picasa and Blogger to rename them – ready for craziness?! – Google Photos and Google Blogs…. #
U.S. tech companies are helping China build a new surveillance network. Do you approve? http://t.co/mnvU8IC via @bizjournals #
Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan subpoenaed over Merrill disclosures http://t.co/q9WbRbF via @CBJnewsroom #
WSJ Newspaper Daze — a great arrangement as long as readers and advertisers had nowhere else to go. http://on.wsj.com/lBNCyF #
WSJ.com – In our age of online view counts and retweets, conformity is becoming the rule http://t.co/7H9Auzo #
Life expectancy for newborn Americans is 77.7 years http://t.co/Ue1OyJD via @bizjournals #

July 4, 2011 by eubie

Reflections of a military dad

WSJ: While My Son Serves

Partying at a raucous sendoff. Waking up worried at 3 a.m. Getting a welcome phone call from the Iraqi desert. The families of deployed soldiers live in a world of their own, says Dave Shiflett.

I’m reading more about military parents as our son expresses his interests after high school.

He certainly chose an unusual path: Fewer than 1% of Americans wear the uniform these days. That, in turn, puts families of deployed soldiers in something of a world of their own.

Shiflett’s comments about listening cable news and dealing with folks back home were bonuses of the article. Also David Shiflett’s web site

July 2, 2011 by eubie

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-07-02

Go Daddy gets more than $2B from KKR, Silver Lake and Technology Crossover Ventures http://t.co/S2Bp5KH via @phxbizjournal #
Duke Energy seeks 15% rate increase http://t.co/ikSym0O via @CBJnewsroom #
Lockheed cutting 1,500 Aeronautics jobs in Marietta, Ga. http://t.co/7k4OD9M via @AtlBizChron #
RT @brianchin: Would you buy Green River Killer’s old house? Do you think the seller should have to tell you he had lived there?… #
Population projections for 943 areas of the U.S. http://t.co/TDNDHZN via @BfloBizFirst #
RT @stevenjayl: I have been following Google's just announced social effort for almost a year. Here's the inside story. http://t.co/ounwSBZ #
RT @kelseyvolkmann: Are Anheuser-Busch departures a sign of advertising powerhouse's decline? http://t.co/vzjfphq via @stlbj #
Finished "In the Plex" by @stevenjayl. Great book, full of repeatable stories. Wanted to read more on Google vs. Facebook #
Bank of America nears $8.5B mortgage settlement http://t.co/iuJyd4N via @SFBusinessTimes #
Manhattan and Arlington lead as highest-paying metros in the U.S. http://t.co/Fundjs8 via @bizjournals #

June 30, 2011 by eubie

In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives by Stephen Levy. Google is one of the key disruptive companies of this past decade. It’s more than a history of Google, it also helps explain the company’s core values as compared with many of its earlier competitors. One of the best stories was about the people with AltaVista, being worried that Google’s results were so good that users would not spend enough time looking at the ads that supported AltaVista. Remember AltaVista and others that are now part of the Search Engine Graveyard.

Levy also wrote How Google’s Algorithm Rules the Web for Wired magazine in 2010j, which was passed around in our office to help us understand Google.

One Second After by William R. Forstchen — An EMP pulse chance life forever in the United States with the focus of the book being Black Mountain, N.C., a favorite place for me. The books is sobering and unsettling and is a book that people are passing along to others. See Forstchen’s web site at One Second After. Many years ago I enjoyed another post-apocalyptic tale Lucifer’s Hammer by Larry Niven and Jeffy Pournelle

Act of Will by A.J. Hartley — Hartley lives in Charlotte, but the book is set in a fictional world in the middle ages. I liked that the book was less than 340 pages and not the large volumes I see in similar quest stories. This was my first book by Hartley, but I’d like to read more.

June 25, 2011 by eubie

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-06-25

RT @bizjournalism: Business journalism got a nod this week as money was allocated for entreprenuerial journalism…. http://bit.ly/mM... #
Go Daddy could be sold for up to $2.5B http://t.co/qvrpGOs via @phxbizjournal #
The downside of Facebook as a public space: Censorship http://t.co/YHMCmMQ #
Goodwill to repair, recycle city of #CLT ??s electronics http://t.co/sQKOkiE via @CBJnewsroom #
Military presence makes Jacksonville, N.C., the youngest metro area in the U.S. http://t.co/W7Mt7Z4 via @bizjournals #
The Science of Social Timing http://t.co/BVag4bM via @herr_schulz #
RT @techflash: Microsoft, Apple, Google seek “tax holiday” on billions of offshore cash http://bit.ly/m1Xo8J #
Sears looking to move HQ to D.C. from Chicago http://t.co/Jd9y7YV via @WBJonline #
Austin, Houston rank as best places for young adults to get started http://t.co/RKUAd9S via @bizjournals #
RT @bizjournalism: Sign up for Tues. free Webinar: 10 Tips for Turning National Stories into Great Local Ones: http://bit.ly/dN0nMT #
FCC study finds ‘surprisingly small’ local news traffic http://t.co/obiwcz0 via @lostremote #
Report: RBC USA sale to PNC Financial signed in $3.5B deal http://t.co/tHeSzAM via @TriangleBIZJrnl #
To Create More Jobs, Go Where the Jobs Are http://on.wsj.com/mvHvEE #WSJ #
Regulators OK Microsoft's Skype purchase http://t.co/qO5aWoe via @SVSJbizjournal #

June 20, 2011 by eubie

Posterous shares well with others

I like Posterous’ openness to share from here to other WordPress.

Posted from beneubanks’s posterous

June 19, 2011 by eubie

Finding first books by authors

Checking out two new authors at the library from the staff recommendation sections. Found two I like and then went to find the earliest books I could by the author. I like starting with earlier books, even if it’s not part of a series.

First-time authors currently reading: Alan Furst and Peter Steiner.

Posted from beneubanks’s posterous

June 18, 2011 by eubie

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-06-18

RT @jayrosen_nyu: An AOL Content Slave Speaks Out. http://jr.ly/ajbm He has name and a photo and everything, as well as a tale to tell. #
RT @techflash: Forrester: Mobile shopping to hit $31 billion by 2016 http://bit.ly/j9OX76 #
Personal finance site Bankrate.com goes public, shares fall … hmmm, maybe investors should have chosen CDs. http://bit.ly/j8NF98 #
RT @pewinternet: The average age of adult social networking site users shifted from 33 in 2008 to 38 in 2010. http://pewrsr.ch/kqAwcw #
A favorite in #CLT Park Road Shopping Center given to Wake Forest, Wingate, Queens http://t.co/9pOf8ey via @CBJnewsroom #
Senate bill aims at Apple, Google tracking http://t.co/hC8EVYy via @SVSJbizjournal #
RT @techflash: From books to now Beetles, the versatile Amazon ecommerce platform http://bit.ly/kSLzDU #
MediaWeek: Forbes places social media at heart of business http://ow.ly/5gXOu #
Analyst: Bank of America could lose $27 billion more in housing http://t.co/w9ifgNW via @CBJnewsroom #
Forbes Update: Our New Newsroom for the Digital Era Is Now Up and Running http://t.co/FdRMaM6 via @forbes #
Arby's sold to Roark Capital http://t.co/r5xgkyT via @AtlBizChron #
MediaShift . BBC Social Media Summit Fixates on Creating 'Open Media' | PBS http://t.co/C457zR0 #
Survey: Compared to last year, how's your company doing in the first half of 2011? http://t.co/CTH6BOY via @bizjournals #
@digsby I'm more eager now for digsby for Mac #
Nasty storm. Not a good time to leave wallet in car. #