Archive for January, 2010

ESPN – ESPN.com

Sunday, January 31st, 2010
MELBOURNE, Australia -- Roger Federer probably didn't need psychological warfare the way he played Sunday to win a record-extending 16th major and inflict more woe on Andy Murray . Fresh off his thumping of Jo-Wilfried Tsonga in the Australian Open ...

Mortgage & Refinancing Free Headline News for the iPhone or iPod Touch – PRLog (free press release)

Sunday, January 31st, 2010
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The Facebook Conundrum – Jackson Clarion-Ledger

Sunday, January 31st, 2010
The situation seems simple and harmless enough: Joe Fan posts on Joe Recruit's Facebook wall, begging him to come to Joe Fan's favorite school. NCAA violation? Or just harmless back-and-forth in today's social networking age, where communication ...

Share this on Twitter – Letter from California – DAILY KOS

Sunday, January 31st, 2010
That too-well known squirrel of an American, Grover Norquist, famously said he didn’t want to abolish government, he just wanted to reduce it to a malleable enough element to drown in his bathtub. Ugly and disturbing rhetoric aside, Americans ...

World News Quick Take – Taipei Times

Sunday, January 31st, 2010
Morris wrote on his Twitter feed that Schmeer’s death was a “senseless tragedy ... The good news is that Machu Picchu, along with all the ancient sites, is intact,” said Carlos Millas, president of the chamber of commerce in Cusco, a region ...

NFL Pro Bowl open thread – Hotair.com

Sunday, January 31st, 2010
The Pro Bowl before the Super Bowl? What genius thought to do that ? None of the players from the two best teams in the league will be there, because they’ll be too busy preparing to play each other in the Super Bowl. That means that fans ...

Dems: Thaksin comment ‘contradictory’ – Bangkok Post

Sunday, January 31st, 2010
Fugitive former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra's plan to take legal action against the ruling-Democrat Party at the World Court is too soon since his graft cases have yet to be resolved, Democrat spokesman Buranat Samutharak said on Sunday. Mr ...

Twitter Top 10: Who To Follow For Dating Advice – YourTango

Sunday, January 31st, 2010
This NYC-based blogger writes about dating in the Big Apple, sharing links to her own posts and those written by other dating bloggers. She skillfully demystifies things like deal breakers, date spots and painful reminders of your ex

Share this on Twitter – Stormin Norman Coleman + Grassroots = ? – DAILY KOS

Sunday, January 31st, 2010
After wandering around the news sites this morning, I stumbled across a headline on the Huffington Post: "Republican Leaders Forming a New Political Group. I clicked on the link and it took me here http://blogs.wsj.com/... to a nice artlicle written ...

MMA Twitter Beat: Strikeforce Miami – Bleacherreport.com

Sunday, January 31st, 2010
I happened to jump on twitter while "watching" the live stream of the Riggs vs. Hieron bout. As it turned out I wasn't even close to alone. I started having dialog on twitter with the group of people I follow and who follow me. Then they began ...

Save Space writing campaign sends 500,000 letters to Washington in … – TCPalm

Sunday, January 31st, 2010
Robin Fisher has a message for President Barack Obama: Save NASA jobs. “To retain our nation’s leading science and technological standing in the world, it is necessary that we take steps now to retain this unique workforce,” Fisher, a Brevard ...

Film editor killed by getaway car in NYC – LoHud.com

Sunday, January 31st, 2010
NEW YORK (AP) — An award-winning film editor who worked on many of Errol Morris' documentaries, including "The Fog of War," was struck and killed by a getaway car speeding from a Manhattan drugstore robbery, police and her mother said on Saturday ...

Taking note of a new competitor – Honolulu Advertiser

Sunday, January 31st, 2010
That makes sense in that there has been an explosion in those using social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter and MySpace. "The insight we had early on was that a large majority of people actually get their news through social connections ...

Google joins the ‘kill-IE6′ campaign – Network World Fusion

Sunday, January 31st, 2010
"We're going to begin phasing out our support, starting with Google Docs and Google Sites," said Rajen Sheth, senior product manager for Google Apps, in a Friday entry on the company's enterprise blog . "As a result, you may find that from March 1 ...

When is one more gadget just too many? – Buffalo News

Sunday, January 31st, 2010
Kira Marchenese works in online communications, and so she arrived on a business trip to New York earlier this week equipped with all the gadgets you might expect: personal smart phone, work smart phone, laptop, iPod touch. Problem is, her hotel room ...

China activist to end protest at Tokyo airport – MSNBC

Sunday, January 31st, 2010
TOKYO - A Chinese activist who spent nearly 90 days camping out at Tokyo's international airport after being barred from going home said Sunday that he was ending his protest after Chinese officials visited him. Feng Zhenghu had stayed at Narita ...

Retailers must understand the power of ‘Gen Y’ – Asheville Citizen-Times

Sunday, January 31st, 2010
In “GenBuY: How Tweens, Teens and Twenty-Somethings Are Revolutionizing Retail,” Kit Yarrow and Jayne O'Donnell provide insight as to what members of “Generation Y” (those born between 1978 and 2000) want, why they buy and what marketers can ...

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand promises to make Syracuse-area job growth her … – Syracuse Post-Standard

Sunday, January 31st, 2010
U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand says the biggest challenge facing Central New York is the economy, and promised this week to make job growth for the Syracuse region her top local priority. “The biggest issue is jobs,” Gillibrand, D-N.Y., said in an ...

WE NEEDED MANAGERIAL CHANGE – CALDWELL – Sporting Life

Sunday, January 31st, 2010
FOOTBALL NEWS Gary Caldwell - Burley dismissal right. WE NEEDED MANAGERIAL CHANGE - CALDWELL Click here to follow us on Twitter! Click here for our special Transfer Centre! Click here for more football headlines! Gary Caldwell believes George Burley ...

Sunkids and courtroom shadows – Sydney Morning Herald

Sunday, January 31st, 2010
... more encouraging news has emerged out of the US profit reporting season. The toymaker Mattel reported it had managed to brainwash the latest generation of young girls into buying Barbie dolls - partly with the help of Facebook and Twitter. ''