You may have read today’s news about our acquisition of Truemors. For those of you not familiar with the site it is the brainchild of Guy Kawasaki. Guy is a legend in Silicon Valley as a best selling author, VC...
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This map paints a sobering picture for anyone concerned about the state of the news business. As the layoffs pile up, the coverage of important news stories shrinks and becomes more reliant on bulk news and news wire material. Hopefully citizen coverage and...
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Feel free to contribute any photos, comments or updates to this story.Facebook's F8 08 Conference is happening live right now.Search live twitter conversations here.Their live keynote blog is here.Photos of the...
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Rising fuel costs have forced Midwest Air to reduce air service considerably. The airline had served 47 cities in January, and is now down to 32, grounding a third of its fleet."The Midwest Air Group will cut daily...
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"The End of White Flight For the First Time in Decades, Cities' Black Populations Lose Ground, Stirring Clashes Over Class, Culture and Even Ice Cream By CONOR DOUGHERTYJuly 19, 2008; Page A1 Decades of white flight transformed America's cities. That era is...
" "Hidden in plain sight" is theme of displays in San Diego and six other U.S. cities SAN DIEGO - As part of it's ongoing effort to raise public awareness about the plight of human trafficking victims in the United...
The BlogHer conference is underway in San Francisco (July 18-20), and of course an event like this is huge for companies who want to woo tastemakers and others who, by definition of attending this conference, tell...
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"San Francisco Department of Technology employee Terry Childs was in a jail cell Friday, accused of illegally locking out fellow authorized network administrators from the city computer network he helped build. But as the case against Childs entered its sixth day, questions...
In the aftermath of the Easyrider-style biker movie 'Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson' it would seem not everybody is impressed by biker gangs! " Judge says no to 'Death Head'...
" With four months to go until the election, msnbc.com is presenting a weekly series, Briefing Book: Issues '08 which will assess issues and controversies that the next president must confront once he takes the oath...
Well this is quite interesting. A computer engineer, disgruntled with his job working as a system administrator for San Francisco's brand new computer network, is holding the system hostage, even as he sits in jail.Terry Childs took exclusive control of the system and was...
Scores of California's most notorious convicts have pen-pal postings and personalized Web pages. Civil libertarians applaud the development as the exercise of free speech; victims' rights advocates say"Prisoners are barred from direct computer access that officials say could...
Parking in San Francisco sucks. That's not opinion, alas, but fact."Lack of parking is a serious issue in San Francisco. Donald Shoup, an urban planning expert at UCLA, says his research shows that drivers on the...
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After reading The Maker of Balloons (Water Balloons that is) on PingMag, I wanted to learn more about this Japanese Summer tradition. By some twist of fate, I landed instead on Tokyo Mango, one of the voices of Lisa Katayama. She recently published Urawaza (Chronicle Books)...
From Guy Kawasaki's blog."NowPublic bought Truemors yesterday, and I became chairman of NowPublic's board of advisors. You can read more details here. These are exciting times! Thank you everyone for contributing your stories to Truemors and for visiting our site. "This is...