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11 Aug 2010 10:48

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Tech: Twitter’s official “Tweet Button” should piss off Tweetmeme

  • First off, this is really unfair. Twitter has, on multiple occasions, taken things that its developer base have nurtured and created and made their own versions. Tweetmeme, in some ways, may have set itself up for a situation like this – the design of the button was such that it could slow down big sites (we recently switched to the quicker Topsy for this reason), and the color scheme (which couldn’t be changed) was too loud for a piece of furniture. But really? Why didn’t Twitter just buy them out rather than compete directly with them? This is how not to keep your platform’s developers very happy. One key point to make here: If Twitter is uninterested in the analytics end, Tweetmeme may still have a market even despite this. source
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28 Jul 2010 10:07

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U.S.: Arizona’s immigration law: Before it’s enforced, most support it

  • 55% totally favor Arizona’s new immigration law
  • 40% think it’s a bad idea – this number spikes among Hispanics
  • 5% don’t know what immigration is, so they were confused source
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25 Jul 2010 20:30

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World: Holy crap: Wikileaks just unleashed the Afghan War motherlode

  • 92,000 documents from Wikileaks source
  • three newspapers – The New York Times, The Guardian and Der Spiegel – were given first crack at the info
  • yes the papers each decided to run the news at the same time, but took great care not to reveal state secrets
  • no we have no idea who leaked the info online – our wildly inaccurate guess is Adrian Lamo
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25 Jul 2010 11:08

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U.S.: Rawsome: Unprocessed dairy worthy of police raids, apparently

This Venice, Calif. raw food joint was raided by police officers because they say raw dairy can spread disease. Advocates say it’s safer than processed milk. source
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23 Jul 2010 17:48

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U.S.: D.C. schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee drops hammer on teachers

  • 261 teachers were fired just before the new school year
  • 165 were cited for having poor classroom performance
  • 737 more educators are on thin ice for the next year source
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23 Jul 2010 11:09

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Culture: Brazilian backlash: Sylvester Stallone pisses off an entire country

  • Bad move, old action star. Stallone, shown here with Jason Statham in the upcoming (and still awesome-sounding) “The Expendables,” said a couple of stupid things during Comic-Con. Here’s what he said about shooting the movie in the country to get Twitter in a tizzy: “You can shoot people and blow things up and they say, ‘Thank you! Take a monkey home with you!'” source
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20 Jul 2010 20:50

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U.S.: Oil spill sketchiness: BP is buying silence from Gulf scientists

  • We told them there was no way we would agree to any kind of restrictions on the data we collect. It was pretty clear we wouldn’t be hearing from them again after that. We didn’t like the perception of the university representing BP in any fashion.
  • University of South Alabama head of marine sciences Bob Shipp • On BP’s desire to work with the university. Work with the university? For what, you ask? Well, they wanted to offer lucrative pay – and a big contract – to the school’s marine scientists. But at a major cost. Basically, the scientists could not publish or even speak about any of their data for the next three years. Long story short: They said no. But not every scientist was willing to bend – scientists at Louisiana State University, the University of Southern Mississippi and Texas A&M reportedly said yes. Unbelievable. And right after this mess. (Thanks Charles Apple – again!) source
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15 Jul 2010 22:17

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U.S.: Financial reform bill? Many people didn’t know there was one

  • 38% of Americans didn’t even know that the landmark legislation even existed
  • 33% of Americans have heard about it, but don’t know what it is
  • 29% know at least a little bit about it; only 3 percent know the bill well source
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15 Jul 2010 21:54

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Politics: BP “hoaxers”: Holocaust deniers, 9/11 “truthers” have company

  • For the love of God, you idiots! We landed on the moon, Obama’s birth certificate is real, the World Trade Center actually got hit by a couple of planes, the Holocaust actually happened, JFK got shot by Lee Harvey Oswald, and there is a ton of BP’s black stuff in the Gulf of Mexico right now. Can we discredit these idiots immediately, please? source
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13 Jul 2010 11:36

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U.S.: Question: Which serial killer is currently getting a PR makeover?

  • Hint: Evangelical Christians LOVE him. While not giving everything away about this guy, he runs a ministry from his prison cell. He became a born-again Christian 23 years ago, while in the midst of a 25-years-to-life prison sentence. He has fans in many corners, fans that make him say things like this: “Here I am, a convicted felon, a murderer, a man undeserving of anything that is good and wholesome. Yet, there are people who have found it in their heart to love me and have concern for me.” So who is it? Click the link to find out. source
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