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Who’s reading your blog in Google Reader? Someone once said that weblogs contain a gold mine of...

So: is Google a good thing? John Lanchester asks, “Is Google a good thing?” in the...

Google is the answer to the problem we didn’t have Jason Zengerie has a very good profile of Malcolm Gladwell...

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Drawing Google Street View   This is the best use I’ve seen of...

Michael Lewis on the end of Wall Street I haven’t had a chance to read it yet, but...

How to recover erased .RW2 and other RAW files from SDHC cards I recently lost all my GF1 photos from my SDHC...

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-02-27 What if making the web more valuable means making...

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-08-07 The book vs. the Kindle on video from my...

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-09-11 The issues with using Adobe CS3 with Snow Leopard:...

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Microfinance, Zidane, and Adam Gopnik Connie Bruck’s article in the October 30th New Yorker describes...

Gladwell and Gopnik in the New Yorker Malcolm Gladwell and Adam Gopnik both have articles in this...

Listen to the new K’s Choice single “Come Live the Life” One of my favorite albums, which I discovered by chance...

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San Francisco Examiner: Rally planned to help save Kepler’s Books The Examiner ran a brief story about the rally scheduled...

Palo Alto Weekly: Nearly 450 rally to help save Kepler’s Palo Alto Online has posted a story about today’s rally...

Save Kepler’s Mailing List and How to Help Thank you to all who attended the rally last week...

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New York Times Coverage John Markoff has an article about the closing of Kepler’s...

Piper Jaffray on Apple’s iPhone I’ve been planning a post on Apple’s iPhone for a...

Run This Town (New York Yankees Version) Before the Yankees game on Friday night, the stadium’s PA...

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Visualize President Obama’s State of the Union address Perhaps, you’re watching President Obama’s address on CNN.com with...

Blacks in baseball and authors on video Harvey Araton, in response to a question posted by CC...

Tiger Woods still won’t endorse Barack Obama (and it’s election day) The Independent features some blurbs from prominent black artists and...

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-08-07 The book vs. the Kindle on video from my...

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-04-10 At Yale Field for the second of two against...

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-05-08 Read David Lipsky’s Rolling Stone profile of DFW, looking...

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The wrong side of history President Obama recently called out Republicans, who opposed his economic...

President Obama on baseball Why this video doesn’t have more views, I have no...

What was Barack Obama reading during the campaign? “Be Quiet, Be Heard” According to New Yorker photographer Platon, President Obama had...

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-10-30 "…the drive to uniqueness and authenticity is what we...

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-08-14 Multi-page online articles inflate pageview numbers at the expense...

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-03-06 What a comeback by Finland in the Bronze Medal...

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