• Micro Persuasion: CNN Twitters Its Way to Direct Audience Engagement
  CNN anchor using Twitter to get real time viewer interaction. Kind of cool, and shocking coming from CNN.
  (tags: web2.0 media twitter)
• It's Time To Open Up The Feeds To Marketers
  Fred Wilson's very interesting take on the future of online advertising.
  (tags: advertising web2.0)
• Freelancing: Legal Resources for Freelancers
  Good stuff for anyone out there on their own in the work jungle.
  (tags: consultant lifehacks)
• Explosive Real Estate: Florida Homes Built Atop WWII Bombing Range – Local News | News Articles | National News | US News
  And you thought being upside down on your mortgage was bad. Try living over a bunch of unexploded ordinance.
  (tags: funny realestate)

• GetSatisfaction API Connects Companies To Customers
  GetSatisfaction is a kind of social media version of customer service. It's described as a neutral ground where people can go there to ask questions, provide feedback or gripe about products and services from various companies and employees of those companies can go to respond.
  (tags: socialmedia web2.0 api)

• Why and how foreign governments are buying America
  Video of an economist explaining the phenomenon of sovereign wealth funds buying US assets.
  (tags: economics)

The Greensboro News & Record had a boo-boo of magnificent proportions today. They had a huge headline on the front page about the government’s $85 billion loan to AIG. I mean huge like “Japanese Bomb Pearl Harbor” huge. Problem is that instead of $85 billion the headline said $85 million. To continue with my comparison that would be like them channeling John Belushi and running a headline that said “Germans Bomb Pearl Harbor.”

Their editor John Robinson wants to go back to bed (http://tinyurl.com/6rjqob) and Ed Cone has an image of the page at http://edcone.typepad.com/wordup/2008/09/best-read-in-dr.html Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry

• Edge: WHAT MAKES PEOPLE VOTE REPUBLICAN? By Jonathan Haidt
  Very interesting piece on why people vote Republican. Really it seems to be more an exploration of what being conservative means, at least as conservative is defined in the U.S.
  (tags: politics)

An hour ago I was sitting in the barber’s chair when a guy comes in and says the line for gas at the Quality Mart in Lewisville is crazy long. Then another guy comes in and says that a station in Yadkinville is charging $5.99 a gallon and that the Citgo on the corner of Dull Rd and Styers Ferry is at $4.49 a gallon. On the way home I confirm the second price when I pass the station and I also remember that I need gas for the drive to Salisbury tonight.

I’m now sitting at Costco where the price is $3.55 a gallon and the lines are 10 deep at all six pumps. I also heard the attendant tell someone else that it has been like this all day. Sheesh. Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry

• Xark!: Coordinates 2.0: Have your say
  What's important for journalists to know for the future. Basically, what will future news media look like and how it differs from traditional news media.
  (tags: newspapers journalism newspaperevolution media)
• Bandwidth: Monitor Your Monthly Bandwidth with Your Router
  This might be an essential add-on for your home internet access if your provider starts capping your monthly usage and charging you extra if you exceed it.
  (tags: networking internet freeware howto router utilities)
• How To: Change Your MAC Address in Windows
  Useful tip for anyone who runs a wireless network in their home with Windows PC's in the mix.
  (tags: tools networking technology windows)
• Supplement – Winston-Salem
  Interesting "guerrilla dining" concept. Essentially they throw dinner parties on an irregular basis in varying places around Winston-Salem. They send out email invites to people who have signed up for the alerts and take the first 30-ish people who register.
  (tags: food winston-salem restaurants)

• Their Lives Were Shaped by Loss – washingtonpost.com
  The children of some of the people who died in the Pentagon on 9/11. I can't believe it's already been seven years.

  Thanks to Esbee for linking to the article.

  (tags: people)

• BuzzMachine » Blog Archive » The start of reverse syndication (and end of the AP?)
  Jeff Jarvis's reverse syndication theory seems spot-on to me. Need to think this through.
  (tags: journalism newspapers syndication)

• Popularity of a Hallucinogen May Thwart Its Medical Uses – NYTimes.com
  This ain't your parent's weed. What am I saying, it's not even my own generation's weed. Salvia, a hallucinogen traditionally used by shamans in Mexico, is considered the most potent hallucinogenic herb and it's legal in most of the US. Lots of video on YouTube of people tripping on it. Just a heads up to you parents out there.
  (tags: drugs)
• Director’s Blog » Blog Archive » Update to the budget and economic outlook
  The blog of the Congressional Budget Office's director.
  (tags: government blog)
• Independent Weekly: Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill
  Independent news site for Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill area.
  (tags: media newspapers newspaperevolution northcarolina)
• Jim Bunning Tells it Like it Is
  Not bad for an ex-ballplayer. Jim Bunning calls out Paulson on the Frannie bailout and says it's socialism. Whether or not the bailout was the right thing to do, Bunning's right that it violates the ethics of free market purists.
  (tags: economics)
• Google News snafu leads to stock plunge – Lost Remote TV Blog
  Best description I've seen of the Keystone Kops-esque snafu that caused United Airlines' stock to tumble for no reason yesterday.
  (tags: information internet)
• Newspaper company starts online-only paper – Lost Remote TV Blog
  Local newspaper, without the paper. Local news site? Best part of story is that the company that started the site did so because the legacy paper (this is in Batavia, NY) didn't have a website.
  (tags: newspaperevolution media)

• CNN Story about DC School system.
  CNN story about DC school system's radical changes. Some interesting points: 12% of DC 8th graders are considered proficient readers and 8% are proficient in math. New chancellor has closed a bunch of schools, cut administrative staff and fired a bunch of principals. She's also instituted an incentive program for students' good behavior, which can include up to $100 in cash per month. Not everyone is happy.
  (tags: education)
• Macropayments: Why I don't take tips for my books – Boing Boing
  Cory Doctorow gives his reasoning behind not accepting micropayments for his work. His sunflower analogy is the best explanation I've seen for content creators making much of their stuff available for free.
  (tags: publishing strategy books writing)
• Official Google Blog: Bringing history online, one newspaper at a time
  Google's digitizing and archiving newspapers from all over. Previously they were working with the big dogs like the New York Times and Washington Post, but now we'll be able to see papers from all over. Wonder when the Winston-Salem Journal will go live?
  (tags: google journalism newspapers history internet)