January 2012
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Muck Rack: Tumble with Muck Rack: we're hiring... →
muckrack:
We’re planning to expand Muck Rack’s coverage of the intersection of journalism and social media on this Tumblr-powered site with short, pithy articles. Muck Rack’s content reaches thousands of journalists and media professionals through our Tumblr, Twitter and Muck Rack Daily subscribers.
Great opportunity with a solid team. I’m a huge fan of Muck Rack.
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The 99% to the bottom 1%: Take it down a few... →
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Oscar Nominations
-saturdaynightlive:
Best Picture
The Artist *
The Descendants *
Extremely Loud And Incredibly Close
The Help *
Hugo *
Midnight In Paris *
Moneyball *
The Tree of Life *
War Horse *
Best Director
Woody Allen - Midnight In Paris
Michel Hazanavicius - The Artist
Terrence Malick - The Tree of Life
Alexander Payne - The Descendants
Martin Scorcese - Hugo
Best Actor
Damian...
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Occupy Davos igloos, five-star hotels and building the Congress Centre— watch as this tiny mountain town prepares for the World Economic Forum.
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Etta James : At Last
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Why Social Media Week 2012 will be bigger and... →
In 2012, Social Media Week is set to be bigger than ever and The Next Web is partnering with its organizers to provide coverage of some of the week’s many events which will be taking place in 12 cities: Hamburg; Hong Kong; London; Miami; New York; Paris; San Francisco; Sao Paulo; Singapore; Tokyo; Toronto, and Washington DC. We caught up with founder and Executive Director of Social Media Week,...
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Gingrich ex-wife to tell ABC News in interview he... →
Matt Drudge reports - EX-WIFE OF 18 YEARS: NEWT NOT FIT TO BE PRESIDENT…
DURING LEWINSKY, CLINTON WARNED CHEATING NEWT ‘YOU’RE ALOT LIKE ME’…
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MPAA Responds to SOPA Protests →
The following is a statement by Senator Chris Dodd, Chairman and CEO of the Motion
Picture Association of America, Inc. (MPAA) on the so-called “Blackout Day” protesting anti-piracy legislation:
“Only days after the White House and chief sponsors of the legislation responded to the major concern expressed by opponents and then called for all parties to work cooperatively together,...
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The Book On Mitt Romney: Here Is John McCain's... →
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Andrew Kaczynski at BuzzFeed - A document found online by BuzzFeed appears to be John McCain’s entire, 200-page opposition research file — or “book” — on Mitt Romney from 2008, the year they were bitter rivals. Segments of the book have been posted on RedState.com, but this the first time the document has been shared for public consumption in its entirety.
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Watchreuters:
Introducing, Reuters TV.
Reuters today announced the launch of Reuters TV, a new YouTube channel featuring 10 news, commentary and analysis programs covering hard news, finance, politics, technology and special Reuters investigations.
The programming, which will appear on Reuters.com and on Reuters redesigned YouTube channel, marks Reuters entry into the rapidly growing business of...
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Brian Williams has a huge crush on Gawker →
From: “Williams, BD (NBCUniversal)” Date: January 15, 2012 15:56:25 EST To:
ND:
I hope you’re well. Happy New Year. A big congratulations to the new freelance weekend guy, Taylor Bernam. He’s done some good posts right out of the box. I do wish the main page featured more TV coverage (Brooklyn hippster [sic] Lana Del Rey had one of the worst outings in SNL history...
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IBM creates one bit of memory with just 12 atoms |... →
shaneguiter:
IBM Research is detailing its quest to find the smallest number of atoms required to store a bit, the fundamental unit of digital data. The answer is just 12, IBM says — a pretty remarkable stat considering that memory in today’s PCs has around a million atoms per bit (by our rough calculations, that’s nearly 69 quadrillion atoms for an 8GB machine). By aligning the atoms in two...
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“Android phones aren’t as simple to use as the iPhone, but they’re not that much...”
– Steve Wozniak
Woz often diverged from Jobs. He wanted Macs to be easily upgradable, Jobs didn’t. Same reason he likes Android.
One of the things that drove Jobs nuts was how he thought Google stabbed him in the back with Android, he felt they stole a lot of the iPhone technology from him...
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Three die as cruise ship runs aground in Italy
Gavin Jones and Antonio Denti for Reuters - Police and passengers quoted on television spoke of people jumping off the 290-metre-long ship, a floating resort hotel with spas, theatres, swimming pools and a discotheque.
“We had a blackout and everybody was just screaming. All the passengers were running up and down and then we went to our...
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Homeless Long Island Teenager Is Intel Competition... →
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(CBSNewYork / AP) - Samantha Garvey has good reason to be the recipient of high fives and congratulations from the faculty and students in the hallways at Brentwood High School.
The 17-year-old senior says she cannot believe that she is one of the semifinalists in the highly prestigious Intel Science Competition, in part because she lives in a Bay Shore homeless shelter with her...
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Jon Stewart takes over Stephen Colbert's SuperPAC
Dear Super PAC Super Members, Hi there. I’m Jon. It looks like I’m running this thing now. All the details are in the press release below. Quick question: does anybody know where the key to the Super PAC bathroom is? Thanks, Jon Stewart President Pro Tem Americans For A Better Tomorrow, Tomorrow FOR REALLY IMMEDIATE RELEASE Under New Management! BASIC CABLE, USA – Americans For...