While the print and broadcast news media wrestle flail in paroxysms of poverty as Google and Twitter steal their lunch money, the good folk of Phillipston bring the important information directly to the people. (Editor’s note: at this writing, I’ve not been able to confirm our news source, but I suspect that it’s Claire.)

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Future of News, Phillipston-style

It is a surprise to know that State bank of India, is again inviting empanelment for allotting whole tax audit to a single audit firm for FY 2010-11. To know more visit: www.statebankofIndia.com under procurement news………. If SBI can do this, others will also follow SBI………

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empanelment for whole bank tax audit of SBI for FY 2010-11.

Earlier today, Matt Van Horn of Digg sent around an email with a private YouTube link to publishers and other influential folk Digg wants to show the redesign to. If Digg really wanted this email to remain quiet, which is a big if , it was a huge blunder to send it to a bunch of journalists with no formal embargo. Of course, it was promptly published by TechCrunch and several other publications (and now, us).

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First Look: Digg Version 4

After the devastating Gulf oil spill , I wrote a few weeks ago about BP needing to look after their brand’s soul and not worry too much about their brand image. But the longer this tragedy goes on, the more I wonder if this company ever had a soul. In the latest news, as BP scrambles to stop the leak , the misguided brand is drowning in poor word choices that are making its failing efforts feel even worse

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From "Top Kill" to "Dead Man’s Switch": What BP’s Oil Spill Lexicon Reveals About Its Brand

The Motor City has 33,529 vacant houses. To most of the country, that’s 33,529 reasons to wring its hands over What To Do About Detroit. To architects, it’s a gold mine

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Young Architects Buy Detroit Home for $500, Turn It into Design Lab

The Apple TV may be about to graduate from a “hobby” project into a world-beater, if leaked info that’s reached Engagdet proves true. It’s set to rival Google’s TV offering, and will see Apple embrace cloud-based content streaming for the first time

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Today’s Vision of Tomorrow: Apple TV, Revamped, Rocketed Into the Cloud

The Guardian’s Roy Greenslade thinks we should take a lesson about paywalls from the Irish News, a 45,000-circulation daily that charges (a lot) to access its work on the Web. If you click on the Irish News website up comes a page demanding that you pay for access to a digital edition. There is a choice: £5 for one…

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Missing the Paywall Point

Japan just revealed some of its plans for space exploration, including the amazing hope of landing a robot explorer on the moon by 2015 and having an entire base of robots by 2020.

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Japan vs. NASA in the Next Space Race: Lunar Robonauts

A lucrative patent or a popular copyright can provide a creator’s heirs with solid streams of revenue for decades. Some great artists and inventors decided that they’d rather give the rights to their best creations to charity, though.

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Copyrights Donated To Charity

The Chippewa Herald : Katia was looking for a Down syndrome awareness idea — something she could display to show she is the proud and loving mother of a Down syndrome child.

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Footprint Makes An Imprint On Down Syndrome Awareness

Prior to returning my call, Barry Levine was on the phone with one of his reporters, discussing a source they hoped to use for a story. For Levine, the executive editor/director of news at the National Enquirer, that entailed discussing the strategy and questions that would be used during an upcoming polygraph examination of the source. Yes, things work a…

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Polygraphs and Private Eyes

There was an anti-vaccination rally yesterday in Chicago — boring and silly! What’s more interesting is that Women Thinking Free (a fabulous new organization) had a counter-demonstration. You can read an account or two or three of the event from the rational perspective; it sounds like the anti-vaxers are also anti-science. The rally and anti-rally also made the news, and that’s actually a good account, which plainly states that there is no evidence of a link between autism and vaccination, t…

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A successful protest in Chicago

It’s only for people who want: A systematic, simple way to get a good grasp of the power of effective online marketing. Easy-to-navigate tutorials on the “Copyblogger method” of creating a profitable online business or marketing your offline business online.

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Who is the Copyblogger Internet Marketing Newsletter for?

Today I’m remembering a conversation I had with my editor when I was an editorial assistant for a publishing company. We were sitting on the floor of her office going through the slush pile, when I began reading a pitch for an article for one of our local magazines offering an in depth look at why it’s a bad idea to open a proposed superstore in lower Manhattan

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Words v. Motives

This is another addition to our ongoing series of tutorials and case studies on landing pages that work. Karen Omerod wants babies to be more comfy and parents less hassled dressing them. She’s designed an adorable line of yoga-styled, easy on/easy off, tops and bottoms.

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Landing Page Makeover Clinic #26: iGrowKids.com.au

So, let me see if I understand this correctly. North Korea fires a torpedo and sinks a South Korean ship, clearly an act of war. In retaliation, the South will put up loud speakers and yell nasty things and put up signs that have more nasty things about Kim Jong Il

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War in the nuclear age

The rumors have been flying around cyberspace for months about the possibility of In-N-Out Burger expanding its empire to Texas.On Wednesday, I finally got confirmation that Southern California’s most beloved burger chain is seeking approval to open fast-food units in the Dallas/Ft. Worth area.

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In-N-Out Burger to open restaurants in Texas – Fast Food Maven : The Orange County Register

The Campaign for Safe Cosmetics and the Environmental Working Group released the results of a study recently that may have perfume-lovers running from their fragrances. The commissioned study exposed hormone-disrupting chemicals and chemicals that could cause allergic reactions. Many were not on product labels, according to the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics.

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Perfume … or poison?

(Photo: Gloria Dawson / The Daily Green) Want to know what a 1,600-plus-calorie meal looks like? It’s not what you think.

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Three meals with more than 1,600 calories each

(Photo: Denise Yeager) Composting is the ultimate act of green frugality , turning unwanted organic material into rich humus for use in the garden rather than sealing it in plastic trash bags to spend eternity in a landfill. But for some of us, composting is something even more special — a hobby, a passion, almost a religion . I’ve even named my beloved compost pile; “Gomer,” as in Gomer Pyle (get it?)

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How to compost almost anything