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Archive for April 2009

NFL and Social Media

brandweek.com – Each April, the National Football League holds the spring Draft, an annual event during which it recruits new players (mainly from colleges) to join its teams. In the past, this selection process was an “institutional event,” where football fans knew the drill and creating buzz

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MySpace CEO to Step Down

pcworld.com – Chris DeWolfe will hand over his CEO title at MySpace, whose growth has stagnated over the past year while the popularity of rival Facebook booms. In addition, President Tom Anderson is in discussions to take “a new role” in MySpace, parent company News Corp. announced

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Wall Street Journal iPhone App Content is Free

Wired – The Wall Street Journal, one of the few newspapers that charges for content online, released an app for the iPhone Wednesday which sets their content free, poking another hole in one of the internet’s oldest pay walls. The Journal released an free app for the

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Fun at The East Bay Express

For what it’s worth, I miss Stephen. We had daily contact and his drive is contagious. Metro Pulse – I wish we had the time, energy, and photogenic qualities to do stuff like this: The East Bay Express in Oakland is one of my favorite alt-weeklies; it’s

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Bay Guardian at it Again

SF Weekly – Editor’s note: From the moment SF Weekly published its first issue as a New Times publication in 1995, Bruce Brugmann, Tim Redmond, and their employees at the Bay Guardian made clear their intention to run us out of town. Brugmann famously said that San

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Zack de la Rocha Returns to Phoenix

Phoenix New Times – The folks that put thousands in Phoenix’s streets February 28 to protest Sheriff Joe Arpaio and the 287(g) program are ready to do it again May 2, with Rage Against the Machine frontman Zack de la Rocha slated to participate as he did

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