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Washington Post Launches Social Networking Component

Late last week the Washington Post launched a light social networking component called My Post. The feature allows users to create a profile that will be linked to whenever a user comments on a Post article. The profile includes personal information about the user and aggregators all of a user’s comments....

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How much are Presidential web vendors getting paid?

I’ve been telling anyone that would listen that someone should comb through the FEC reports and figure out how much Presidential campaigns paid their web vendors during the first quarter. I did this because I wanted to know and was too lazy to do it myself.

Shira Toeplitz from Hotline dove in and wrote the story....

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Hacking Digg for Ron Paul

Isn't it annoying when a "digger" on digg digs a web page and uses a horrible headline?  Well, I've found out how you can counter that by submitting the same URL with a small hack to get the same page on the site with a better headline.  I did this while trying to chime in on the digg fray around Republican 2008 US Presidential hopeful Ron Paul....

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Top 5 Author Blogs

Everyone knows about author bloggers like Guy Kawasaki and Seth Godin. But outside of the Technorati Top 100, there are a lot of authors that have used blogs to create fantastic communities of users. Here are my five favorite, slightly lower profile author blogs:

(5) Malcolm Gladwell

Gladwell,...

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Top 5 Political Crutches

Wading through the commercials, the web sites, the speeches and the (gulp) Town Hall Meetings, you come across the same tried and (somehow) true visual buffoonery with almost all of today’s candidates. Below are 5 examples of why I drink:

1) The Sleeve-Roll

John Edwards perfected it with his classic faux denim shirt roll,...

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