Spent a bit today watching the Twitter in sync with television broadcasts. As the TV industry prepares to embrace “companion television”, thought I’d share some insight on where the audience is already talking – twitter hashtags.
I’m a bit of a news hound, so the Sunday morning talk shows, and 60 Minutes were on my radar. [...]

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UPDATE
The good news is the Charlotte O circ guy is fast, and gun-slinger-ready to run down their marketing contractor. And for the record, the FCC complain site works just as well for out of whack telesales teams, as it does SMS text message spam. Had the privilege today of receiving and reporting both.
And [...]

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Wrote this Vulnerabilities have a price article last year about how a smart programmer stopped giving up hacks for free.  Now we see that Big G has joined the model with a rate card for finding security holes in google.com properties (from Google security blog).  Not sure if Charlie Miller will be enticed by $500 to $3,000 [...]

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Recently I attended BarCamp Charlotte at Area 51. It happened to be a week-off of this years ConvergeSouth Greensboro, a similar event I’ve attended annually for about five years. As a tech-mixer affectionado I thought I’d post some thoughts on the interwebs about the genre.
BarCamp (4) Charlotte Field Report

Free as in beer; fully sponsored one-day’r [...]

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intv.com domain auction has now started. You can submit bids using this link: http://bit.ly/bidnow-intv, or by visiting the Moniker auctions page here: http://domainauctions.moniker.com/2010/DOMAINfest-Prague.
intv.com domain auction ends next week, Wednesday October 13th, at 3:15pm ET.

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I’ve just released domain intv.com to the kind folks at Moniker.com for their DOMAINfest Prague auction October 6 – 13, 2010.  Ryan and I designed our INTV venture (info site) around intv.com.  Time to move on as they say.
Note: on the bid.intv.com page / bottom left – there’s a spike in the keywords graph. [...]

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Please be advised. Fanatics do not a nation, or a religion make.  Thank you for your attention.

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Chick-Fil-A caved. Or, they see the light – at least in Birmingham they do.
Quick service businesses will always want drive thrus and greenfield development.  Big boxes will always want new construction, set-backs, and massive flat-lots. But. When communities stand up for themselves. When their politicians and ultimately their building codes stand for more sensible development better infrastructure emerges.
When chain retail – [...]

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