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The URL Is Dead, Long Live Search - ReadWriteWeb (6)
on ReadWriteWeb (14748) permalinkLast week I was watching TV and saw something that really caught my eye. It was a commercial for Special K, the breakfast cereal from Kellogg, and rather than end with a plug for the product's web site -- SpecialK.com -- it advised people to search Yahoo! for "Special K" instead. I started to wonder two things: 1. is Yahoo! paying Special K for tack-on advertising? and 2. has searching really become so natural that ...
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Colbert, Stewart Provide Better News Than O'Reilly, Dobbs (29)
on Think Progress (1608) permalinkA new Pew Survey on News Consumption released yesterday reveals that viewers of The Daily Show and The Colbert Report are more knowledgeable about current events than those who watch Bill O’Reilly, Lou Dobbs, Larry King, and the “average consumers of NBC, ABC, Fox News, CNN, C-SPAN and daily newspapers.” Thirty percent of Daily Show and 34 percent of Colbert viewers correctly identified Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and the ...Shared by Adam R. (22) Albie (34) Andy (54) Benjamin (6) Blaenk Denum (96) Brian Edelen (68) Chad (407) Chris Makarsky (79) Chris McKie (1) Cleber (37) Derrik (102) Doron Dinovitzer (11) Glenn Batuyong (266) Gschultz (147) Jason L (61) Jeff (60) Joe (37) Joe D'Andrea (41) Kate (29) Katie Watson (16) Kelli (16) Luciano (55) Mike Nayyar (432) OcellNuri (60) Patrick (239) Paul Spoerry (86) Peter (96) Randy Meeker (43) Toby (746)
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WSJ Market Watch Lists Reasons Why McCain Would Make a Mediocre President (2)
on The Moderate Voice (30) permalinkThe Wall Street Journal’s Market Watch points out that the McCain meme “Is he ready to lead?” begs the question whether McCain is. Rex Nuttimg lists several reasons McCain would be a mediocre president. The quoted material which follows is all extracted from the Nutting piece, which provides quite the brutal reframing of McCain’s career. As Ron Beasley says at Newshoggers, it’s a sort of nutshell version of McCain. I’ve extracted the morsels that most ...Shared by Jeff (60) Mark Spieglan (42)Contribute comment
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Are You Fighting The War On High-Fructose Corn Syrup? [Polls] (7)
on Consumerist (3359) permalinkLabel-conscious consumers are skipping over high-fructose corn syrup in favor of products sweetened with natural alternatives like cane sugar, honey, and fruit juice. Finding HFCS-free items takes work, but the Corn Refiners Association worries that consumers are increasingly up to the challenge. They recently launched a "major marketing campaign" to defend their chemical concoction. Are you paying any attention to the sweet brouhaha? High fructose corn syrup has become a favorite target of the health-conscious ...Shared by Aaron R (500) adrcc2 (37) Andrew Boardman (212) Jason Gooljar (293) Jeff (60) tzt (32) usrbingeek (66)Contribute comment
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Malwebolence - The World of Web Trolling - NYTimes.com (3)
permalinkHe proceeded to demonstrate his personal cure for trolling, the Theory of the Green Hair. “You have green hair,” he told me. “Did you know that?”“No,” I said.“Why not?”“I look in the mirror. I see my hair is black.”“That’s uh, interesting. I guess you understand that you have green hair about as well as you understand that you’re a terrible reporter.”“What do you mean? What did I do?”“That’s a very interesting reaction,” Fortuny said. “Why ...Contribute comment
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Dead Monster Washes Ashore in Montauk [Good Luck With Your Hell Demons] (85)
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Amazing videos shot with consumer grade HD video cameras (24)
on Boing Boing (18121) permalinkAndrew Heart of Panopticist says: Amateurs are doing amazing things these days with consumer-grade high-def camcorders, especially Canon's HV30 MiniDV unit (which retails for about $800) and its predecessor, the HV20. [This] impressive clip is the work of a Memphis college student named Kyle Shields, who acquired a new audio library and wanted to test out some of the gunshot sounds. There's a whole channel on Vimeo devoted to people's experiments with Canon's HV30 and ...Shared by Aaron Ross Powell (47) Alex (449) besighyawn (134) Carlos Villela (43) chrisv (34) Daniel Bachhuber (55) dH (26) eMich (110) focsa (55) Guan (37) Heather (204) James and Tom (83) Jared (106) Jason Sares (31) Jeff (60) Mark (25) Matthew (176) Nathan (192) Nathaniel Dean (112) norcalbarney (41) pikagwong (22) TheDudeAbides (86) Vince (16) voidfiles (143)Contribute comment
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