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State of California takes aim at ‘risks’ of Twitter, bans Facebook friends

By Andy Sternberg | Published: 26 February 2010
  State takes aim at ‘risks’ of Twitter, bans Facebook friends February 26, 2010 |  3:55 pm The Internet can be a wild place, with all the damage one can do from an office cubicle on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and the like. So the state of California on Friday unveiled a “Social Media Standard” to ensure that its employees [...]
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Real-time case study in generating comments. Is timing everything?

By Andy Sternberg | Published: 26 February 2010
Hidden Los Angeles posted a simple “what are you doing” query to its fan page in the 5 o’clock hour on a Friday and started an avalanche of commenting from like-minded people who were likely wondering the same thing. “Hidden Los Angeles wants to hear all about he awesome local LA stuff you’re doing this weekend! [...]
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All my Google Reader lists and feeds Embedded here

By Andy Sternberg | Published: 3 February 2010
I wish Reader would allow for this natively — not to mention create a more robust mobile app. Thanks to for making this rather easy to do. Click to expand by category and by newsfeed. download OPML (700 feeds as of Feb 3, 2010) Click below to listen to my radio station, WOOZradio!
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