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Twitter Friday Linking
It’s Friday and those of you who use Twitter know that it is often used as a “microblogging” medium – that is, people post their thoughts on topics and links to interesting stories. That’s about the most they can do since Tweets are limited to 140 charachters or less. I’ve decided to do Twitter Friday…
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Happy Birthday, America!
Here in the United States, today is a very special day. Other countries celebrate Independance from whomever or whatever they became independant of but more times than not, it doesn’t stick. It seems like every few years, we hear of another coup d’état happening somewhere in the world. In Fiji last year, the government was…
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Labor Attorney Needed
If you are a labor lawyer, and are licensed to practice law in the State of Maryland, I need to talk to you. My wife and I have a situation to deal with regarding her sleazy former employer.
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Interview With MySpace Professional Kevin Palmer
Kevin Palmer blogs at buzznetworker.com for b5media, his blog covers how to use social networking websites to build awareness of your product, site, or yourself. Palmer has used his myspace page to become one of the most read bloggers on the social networking site. His grasp of the social networking phenomenon has led to a…
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Universal Music Goes the Wrong Way on iTunes Music
Odd that Universal Music is apparently thinking it can walk away from Apple and iTunes. You heard that right. Universal Music Group is talking about walking away from the third largest retailer of music in the world – online or brick and mortar. The Unofficial Apple Weblog has the story. The story was originally floated…
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Google Reader OPML Export Converter
In case you haven’t heard, b5media in partnership with Virtual Reach released a mobile RSS reader. I’ve been using it for several weeks as we’ve been testing it in-house. I must say, it’s very nice. While a Windows Mobile version will be available soon, the Blackberry client is currently available – b5media branded and all.…
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Hacking and Slashing the RSS Reader
The time has come once again for the Great Purge and Clean™ of my feed reader. My apologies to all who did not make the cut. My criteria has become very clear over the past month: Read only what contributes to your job or your hobbies. Everything else is a distraction. With that in mind,…
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Case Update: Columbia Pictures v Bunnell
A few weeks ago, I wrote about a California magistrate in California who ruled on behalf of the motion picture industry and issued new precedent which claimed that IP addresses stored only in RAM were subject to preservation for discovery (text of decision). At that time, I wrote: The curious part about this ruling has…
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Dragons in the Yahoo-MySpace Talks
The rumor, as yet unconfirmed, yesterday and today has centered around the possibility that NewsCorp/Fox Interactive is in talks with Yahoo to trade off MySpace in exchange for a 30% stake in the Yahoo Corporation. Given that that would value MySpace at approx $15B, the big winner would be Rupert Murdoch who bought MySpace 2…