Sad face TwitterSync no workie

When my friend Chris O’Brien messaged me yesterday asking how I link my Twitter updates to my Facebook status, I had to haul myself out of denial and figure out what went wrong.
For months I had been speeding along in the fast lane with my FB and Tweets all linked together for one-stop updating. I [...]

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Saul Alinsky would be proud

The students and I talked current events today in my Web Publishing and Design class, and the chit chat wasn’t about the Super Bowl or Super Duper Tuesday. It was about Microsoft’s bid for Yahoo and what that could mean for all of us.
One among them knew that Google’s CEO reportedly called Yahoo’s CEO to [...]

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One of my friends named Kim

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Originally uploaded by Something To See
Thanks to Facebook and LinkedIn, I’ve been stumbling across a bunch of not-so-old friends, people I haven’t seen in many, many moons.
Many of them have gone on to do wonderful things while I was in another time zone, doing something else.
That’s the case with my friend [...]

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Why Facebook Bugsmenot and helps me heart my Westie

OK, so we screwed up.
By we I mean the people such as me who were running news Websites.
When we did it, you rightfully hated it.
What’s remarkable is that Facebook is doing it and you love it so much you can’t get enough of it.
And I think it has some tremendous — and positive — implications [...]

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Facebook, the dead tree edition and cute puppies

The other day I found something extremely cool hidden in plain view on Facebook, something that may spell more gloom for online newspaper classifieds, and which might even take a chunk out of eBay and Craigslist.
I found myself in possession of two extra puppies, thanks so some lout who dumped them in our yard [...]

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