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Celebrating an Obama Victory in NYC

Never before have I seen New Yorkers come together like I did tonight. As I walked home from a friends election night party, I watched as strangers on the street high five'd and even hugged each other -...

created by meyers | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago
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Rasmus Lerdorf: Simple Is Hard - DrupalCon 2008 Key Note

The talk is about how we use php today vs. how Rasmus thought it would be used. PHP was all about separating your biz logic from your presentation layer. So that you don't have to recompile your code when you...

created by meyers | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago
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Test Story - Manual Quotes

this is a test story, please ignore, i'll delete it shortly..."this is a manual quote"the above is a qoute with out a url, and here is a quote with a url:"another quote here"

created by meyers | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago
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Test Story - Manual Quotes

this is a test story, please ignore, i'll delete it shortly..."this is a manual quote"the above is a qoute with out a url, and here is a quote with a url:"another quote here[\q]

created by meyers | 1 year ago
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Sex, Drugs, and Mantyhouse? Aka a Big News Day over at CNN

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Sex, Drugs, and Mantyhouse? Aka a Big News Day over at CNN

Often, when I talk about NowPublic with folks who have never seen our web site, they tend to bring up the same set of concerns regarding the accuracy of our content ("if anyone can publish anything, and omg they...

created by meyers | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago
582 views | 4 recommendations | 4 comments

Did Deutsche Telekom Spy on Journalists and Board Members?

As if their shitty service wasn't bad enough, not to be outdone by the American telecommunications giants and their illegal wire tapping, Deutsche Telekom thought it'd do some spying of it's own..,."German telecommunications giant Deutsche Telekom stands accused of having...

created by meyers | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago
525 views | 12 recommendations | 3 comments

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Voice Report from meyers

This is Michael Meyers, reporting live from the Now Public Head Quarters in New York City for the release of our new Now Public voice mail system. It's a glorious day out side toped only by the release of new...

created by meyers | 1 year ago
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Citizen Journalism and American Politics

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Citizen Journalism and American Politics

Jeff Jarvis (CUNY & BuzzMachine) moderated an exciting panel this past Friday night on “Citizen Journalism and Politics”. It’s one of the best panels I’ve attended in a while. Jeff...

created by meyers | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago
952 views | 30 recommendations | 3 comments

ProPublica -- New Investigative Journalism Org.

" A new, non-partisan, non-profit newsroom producing journalism in the public interest will launch here in January under the name ProPublica. Paul E. Steiger, former managing editor of The Wall Street Journal, will serve as president and editor in chief. ProPublica, when...

created by meyers | 2 years ago
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Documentary on the women who hacked ENIAC

"Did you know, sixty years ago, six young women programmed the ENIAC, the first all-electronic programmable computer?Six young women mastered the power of the ENIAC – an 80 foot long, 8 foot tall, black metal machine – and harnessed its power through an archaic...

created by meyers | 2 years ago
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Dries Buytaert on the History of and Milestones for Drupal

"NoNeck" Noel Hidalgo recently interviewed Dries Buytaert in the most recent stop on his "Lock o Seven" tour of the world. Noel aims to hit 7 continents in 7 months, in "an open-source journey around the world documenting free culture, social innovators &...

created by meyers | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago
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Friends With Benefits, or the Benefits of a Friend?

Though one should never underestimate the importance of a good wing-woman, it isn't entirely clear to me why you can't have your cake and eat it too... I guess that is what makes me a man? Benefits...

created by meyers | 2 years ago
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Beer in space: A short but frothy history

After last weeks story about drunk astronauts and alchol abuse at NASA, the NewScientist came out with an article today on the history of alchol in space:"After allegations that astronauts flew drunk, NASA's rules...

created by meyers | 2 years ago
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NASA worker Caught in Act of Sabotage on ISS Bound Computer

According to breaking news from NASA, a space program worker is alleged to have deliberately damaged a computer that was meant to fly aboard the Endeavour in less than two weeks, in an apparent act of sabotage."A...

created by meyers | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago
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Don't Let the FDA tell YOU What YOU Can or Can't Put Into Your Body!

Codex Alimentarius is a group of laws that, if passed in this country, may ultimately severely limit health freedom. I invite and encourage you to get involved; this is a battle for the future of all of our...

created by meyers | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago
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