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Apple announces iTunes 10, available immediately, which comes with a new logo and a social music service called Ping that lets you see what your friends are listening to and make comments and recommendations.
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iTunes 10 gets social with Ping
As you drive from Templeton Center on Baldwinville Road to, um, Baldwinville, you come around a corner and see this: Even if you’re expecting it, it’s still a surprise, as though something from War of the Worlds has jumped into the woods. It’s the new windmill located behind Narragansett Regional High School. The town’s municipal light department has just brought the generator online.
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A mighty wind in Templeton
At Apple’s press event Wednesday in San Francisco, CEO Steve Jobs shows off the latest version of the iPod Touch. The new Touch shares many features with the iPhone 4, including Apple’s Retina Display technology, a front-facing camera, and Face
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Apple unveils revamped iPod Touch
Apple CEO Steve Jobs shows off the latest redesign of the iPod Nano at its September 2010 music event Wednesday in San Francisco. The new Nano features a touch screen, eliminating the buttons from the previous version.
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The new touch-screen iPod Nano
At Apple’s press event in San Francisco, CEO Steve Jobs announces updates to the mobile operating system. iOS 4.1 will bring new features starting this week, while version 4.2 will arrive this November.
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Apple iOS updates coming soon
Apple CEO Steve Jobs shows off the latest redesign of the company’s smallest iPod line at its September 2010 music event Wednesday in San Francisco.
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Buttons are back on new iPod Shuffle
Can you believe it’s already September? Start the month right by going through the job leads today, and here’s the quote for the week: First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality.
When I was a teenager, we made a trip to Los Angeles and a family friend took us to a Japanese restaurant. I remember it well, because I was going through that phase where you’re willing to do things on a dare, not because you’re keenly interested in new experiences, but because you want to show off that you’re not afraid of taking on a few dares. And I remember some of my family flipping out a little when we were presented with a big, shiny wooden board covered with raw strips of fish, lined up in neat rows, ready to be eaten just as is.
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Matsuri Sustainable Sushi
Another group (or as self-styled, “network”) of science blogs is being set up at the Guardian newspaper in order to “entertain, enrage, and inform.” According to the announcement, to start with there will be four blogs covering “evolution and ecology, politics and campaigns, skepticism (with a dollop of righteous anger) and particle physics…”. A fifth will be more generic, and “…will hopefully become a window onto just some of the discussions going on elsewhere. It will also host the Guardi…
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Guardian Science Blogs
News Geneticist Hugh Reinhoff has finally found a promising gene that might explain his daughter’s mystery genetic disorder. You must read Brendan Maher’s feature on Reinhoff from Nature in 2007. “A US court has issued a temporary block against federal funding for human embryonic stem cell research as permitted by the Obama administration last year,” says Nature.
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Spotted links – 28th August 2010 | Not Exactly Rocket Science
It’s day two at VMworld 2010 and so far it’s been absolute madness! There are over 17,000 attendees from 85 different countries, hundreds of sponsors and exhibitors, countless parties, meetups and events all contributing to the chaos. But man, is it a ton of fun! If you’ve never been to VMworld than make sure you sign up next year, it’s by far the most exciting IT event of the year.
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Train Signal at VMworld 2010: Virtual Madness!
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It’s that time of the month! While you were hunched over your keyboard writing articles and SEO-ing the heck out of your blog, you may have missed these industry nuggets: You may have heard that Editor & Publisher will cease publication at the end of the year, but you may have missed this great Q&A between Greg Marx of Columbus Journalism Review and Editor & Publisher’s editor-in-chief Greg Mitchell . Like eating
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This Month in Media News – All the media news you were too busy working to read
Social Security is not in crisis and is not bankrupt. According to the annual report authored by the Board of Trustees for Social Security released last week, Social Security will have a surplus of $77 billion by the end of this year.
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Social Security is NOT in Crisis. What the 2010 Trustees Report Says About It
With apologies to the late Frank Zappa… even though we are going through the dog days of summer, the parade of health care troubles in the news is never ending, so I thought I would recap some of the more interesting issues discussed by some of my fellow health care skeptic bloggers
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"Trouble Coming Every Day" as Discussed by our Fellow Health Care Skeptics
Let’s say a company is about to launch a new product and, as is the standard practice, they have pre-briefed a select group of media outlets and bloggers about the news under an embargo. The launch date is close and writers have already prepared their news stories so that they can push them as soon as embargo is lifted. And then something strange happens – one media outlet publishes the story ahead of time thus breaking the embargo – intentionally or unintentionally
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Who Broke the News (or the Embargo) First?
This is beginning to sound like the Monty Python Mattress Skit .Each time someone asks a politician about the Ground Zero Mosque, said politician dons the Paper Bag of Stupidity ™ . This time, according this morning’s Telegram article, GOP hopefuls oppose mosque , four of the five Republican candidates for the 3 rd congressional district seat added the following to the public discourse about which we need not have an opinion: Candidate Michael P. Stopa of Holliston said he wouldn’t oppose construction if he knew the mosque would be under FBI surveillance once it opened.
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Do not say "Ground Zero Mosque" in front of these guys
Bloggers have been asking the question “ Do long or short headlines work better ?” for a long time. But the answer to the riddle of how to create a headline that pulls in readers doesn’t necessarily lie in subtracting or adding one more word
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Is Your Headline Good or Bad? Give it the Breath Test
The issue of executive compensation in health care seems to be attracting more media attention. A St Louis Post-Dispatch editorial noted how executive compensation for for-profit health insurance CEOs has grown. It started with a quote from Steven Hemsley, the CEO of UnitedHealth: Today the American people are questioning whether or not we receive fair value for the $2.6 trillion we, as a society, are expecting to spend this year on our health care system .
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Can a $1 Billion Group of Babies Provide Fair Value in Health Care?
Effective marketing requires a knowledge of both search engine optimization (getting your web site ranked on the first page of Google and other search engines) as well as Pay-Per-Click marketing. If you haven’t strengthened your knowledge in each of these areas, I recommend that you consider doing so. This past week, both Google and Yahoo! made pretty significant announcements
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SEO Changes From the Leaders