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Hmmm – my Turnbull notion was not that sillyHmmm…. maybe I’m not so silly after all, with my 2011-07-23 "Malcolm, PM with Party of One" suggesting Labor offer Malcolm Tu...

The Tabloid Justice Consultation

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John Batelle's Searchblog

More on Twitter's Great Opportunity/Problem In the comments on this previous post, I promised I'd respond with another post, as my commenting system is archaic (something I'm fixing soon). The comments were varied and interesting, and fell into a few buckets. I also have a few more of my own thoughts to toss out there,...

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Who Am I, According to Google Ads?

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CBC

Bacon shooting sparks gang retaliation fears A settling of scores could be on the way between gangs in British Columbia after a notorious leader of the Red Scorpions was gunned down and a full-patch member of the Hells Angels was wounded in a very public dayligh...

Rypien's death shocks hockey world

Peter MacKay hails 'royal' renaming of military

Charest laughs off hoax death story in Le Devoir

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 Daily Kos

Remember when Paul Ryan believed in holding open and publi... (Jason Reed/Reuters) Now Paul Ryan has gone pay-per-view, skipping free and open public town halls in favor of events charging $15 a person. Media Matters Action Network reminds us that just two short years ago,...

Romney sets stage for flat tax flip-flop

Perry calls Fed 'treasonous,' threatens to get 'ugly' with Be...

Rick Perry's Texas 'miracle' is built on minimum wage jobs

Colorado Rep. Lamborn implements no-protesting rule outside d...

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Apple iPad 3 Launch Pushed to 2012 Die hard iPad fans have got a long wait, for the iPad 3 which was expected to make the markets sometime this year has been reportedly pushed out to 2012. Apple’s iPad 2 shipments are making strong sales this year, so ...

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Discovery

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Sarkozy and Merkel Call for Closer Euro CoordinationWith new data showing Europe’s economy stalling, the leaders of France and Germany set out proposals to harmonize national po...

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What librarians can learn from Apple Librarians around the country are facing hard economic times.  There are a number of pressures in our field. Some of them are economic, some of them are driven by technology and mobility. In the current budget cutting climate in Texas, many librarians have been laid off or reassigned (see my previous post: Mapping Librarian Cuts [...]

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AT&T agrees to buy T-Mobile USAAT&T has agreed to buy T-Mobile USA in a $39 billion deal that would create the country's largest cellphone carrier.

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Science Daily

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TechCrunch

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