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Tribune Co. may sever ties with the AP. http://bit.ly/ZOglm # @seandemery thanks for lunch today, great talking with you… # Cool! H.R.6209 would “preclude commercials from being broadcast at louder volumes than the program they accompany.” http://bit.ly/1422VQ # @AdrianEden Adrian — an awesome week so far. Thanks for asking. How about you? # @brandon_wirtz Compression […]

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Int’l Energy Agency to make a “substantial” downward revision to its long-term forecast for global oil demand. http://bit.ly/4k6iJG # OMG. Police believe the man who trained our dog (a great guy) has been murdered. Inconceivable. http://bit.ly/4rHuCS # AT&T suing Verizon over (the brilliant ) ‘There’s a Map for That’ ads. http://bit.ly/khChN # WSJ: Looks like […]

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Lufthansa MySkyStatus to be Renamed “ComeRobMyHouse” http://bit.ly/35brZG # Yale Economist: how Shakespeare’s “Merchant of Venice” can teach us how to prevent future financial crises. http://bit.ly/4g35o # @Awfy Greg: Thanks — Tweet O’Clock got a great reception at #140tc. People love to see useful tools in action. # Powered by Twitter Tools.

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Okay, I admittedly am over-snarking about what looks like something possibly of value to those 20-something twitchy urban hipsters who live in secure buildings and simply MUST-SHARE-EVERYTHING they do 24/7. Here’s the deal. Enter your flight info into the service and it will periodically update your social networks with status updates as to your location […]

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WA is apparently “the only U.S. state that runs a trade surplus with the rest of the world.” http://bit.ly/4q1uur # Note to local GOP candidates. Despite my libertarian leanings — if you’re a real estate developer, I’m voting Democrat every time. # Powered by Twitter Tools.

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Figured out how to resolve shortened URLs in filemaker. Analyzing 1500 tweets about social search… # Neuheisel suffers fifth straight loss. # The Economist: “virtually all the population growth in America is in the suburbs and exurbs.” #toldyouso http://bit.ly/qGHLS # Hope and Change! The WSJ is now America’s biggest paper (and growing.) Daily sales of […]

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I own 20 domains with “opensocial” in the name. They just expired. Do I care? # @pamslim @cliffatkinson if you are trying to find an old tweet from a specific user, searchtastic.com is awesome. @searchtastic # Powered by Twitter Tools.

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Boeing machinists didn’t get the memo: Airbus planes have been rolling off the line in Tianjin China since June 2009. http://bit.ly/3ppWNa # Dear Google (and Bing): when I search for “applescript concatenate text files” I want a script to concatenate text files! Is that so hard?? # @davidgeller can’t drag and drop to a unix […]

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Just heard Arianna Huffington say there’s no “other side” to global warming. We can ignore many scientists — they’re employed by big oil. # Watching @natalielent present at #140conf. She’s delivering for the audience, pragmatic stuff. Talking a bit about about search. # The advantage to NOT being an iPhone user — you can bypass […]

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@natalielent looking forward to seeing you at #140conf! # Powered by Twitter Tools.

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