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Just as I start my Twitter account, my lingering and long hesitation to doing so being ?something else to manage,? I begin reading multiple accounts of ?lifestreaming? ? the notion of simplifying social media engagement.
Now the flotsam & jetsam
Pepsi Counts Down to '09 With 'WordPlay'
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NEW YORK Beiersdorf has launched a sampling effort at New York City's Times Square in hopes of getting smooching consumers to ring in the New Year wearing its Nivea Lip Care. Read Full Article
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5 GeekDad New Year's Resolutions
On New Year's Eve, I posted a list of 10 New Year's Resolutions for Geeks. Only one of those made any reference to kids, however, so I figured it behooved me as a GeekDad to make a list specifically for geek parents. Here, then, are 5 GeekDad
Web video spreads the message
SOME web videos get a few thousand views, and more are lost in cyberspace. A few break away from the pack and become superstars, with viewership in the millions.
Since YouTube launched in 2005 and made video-sharing part of pop culture, viral videos
Netherlands: "Hamas, Hamas, Jews to the gas"
This video (thanks to M.B.) depicts Dutch parliamentarian Harry van Bommel of the Socialist Party and other Leftist useful idiots calling for intifada against Israel during a Jew-hate, pro-jihad terror rally in Amsterdam yesterday -- while the crowd
Daly: Ya know, there's more to Caroline Kennedy
Student and young reporter Damon Weaver scored his interview with Caroline Kennedy while she was in Florida to support Barack Obama.
Before Gov. Paterson decides whether or not to appoint Caroline Kennedy to the U.S. Senate, he should ponder a YouTube
Three to chase those blahs away
Deirdre Baker
Deirdre Baker's Small Print appears every two weeks. Her novel Becca at Sea is also published by Groundwood.
Hello to the new year with a cluster of quick, good reads by some of Canada's wittier writers for young adults,
Bear With Me: A ridiculous actor's diary
Writer/actor Diane Flacks rehearses Bear With Me, her show opening at Berkeley St. Theatre.
How Diane Flacks' book about motherhood turned into the play opening at Canadian Stage this week
In the summer of 2002, when I was nine months pregnant, I
Bogus bucks go high-tech, low art
A pile of worthless bills. Some fake bills turning up nowadays are for $5 or $10 - even $1. "It's crazy," Green says.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - The Secret Service agent in Kansas City peered hard at a counterfeit $100 bill, ran a finger over it, and grimaced
Help wanted, but there's no big hurry
While Dikembe Mutombo said he wanted to come to Boston, the Celtics weren't quite ready to commit to him.
The four-time Defensive Player of the Year listed the Celtics among the teams he was interested in signing with for his last NBA season. While the
