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Very quietly, one of Twitter's most powerful applications has become its ability to allow people to conduct real-time searches.
In fact, the motto posted on Twitter's search page (http://search.twitter.com) says, "See what's happening — right now." And many people do exactly that. During a live event or amid breaking news, a growing number of people are turning to Twitter search
Blog* Chris O'Brien's blog
to follow the conversations among its users.
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"While being a searchable database of what is being said at a particular time is unique, it doesn't take Twitter too far afield from Google, which is a catalog of the world's recorded knowledge. Google looks back at what documents have been produced and can be surfaced, while Twitter looks back at what was said on a given topic.
"Certainly there's an AdWords-like business there, but, as Mr. Chaffee told us, Twitter has another "wild card."
"In the future, searches won't only query what's being said at the moment, but will go out to the Twitter audience in the form of a question, like a faster and less-filtered Yahoo Answers or Wiki Answers. Users would be able to tap the collective knowledge of the 6 million or so members of the Twitterverse."
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Firefox extension that adds a bunch of functionality to a basic Google search. I haven't tried it yet, but plan to
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In response to such flummery, I had in my wallet, next to my Baltimore Sun press pass, a business card for Chief Judge Robert F. Sweeney of the Maryland District Court, with his home phone number on the back. When confronted with a desk sergeant or police spokesman convinced that the public had no right to know who had shot whom in the 1400 block of North Bentalou Street, I would dial the judge.
I was secretly delighted, as yet another police officer learned not only the fundamentals of MD public info law, but also that as custodian of public records, he needed to kick out the face sheet of any incident report and open his arrest log to immediate inspection. There are civil penalties for refusing to do so, the judge would assure him. And as chief judge of the District Court, he would declare, I may well invoke said penalties if you go further down this path.
Delays of even 24 hours? Nope, not acceptable. Requiring written notification from the newspaper? No, the judge would explain.
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Want to see what complete suicide for the news biz looks like? Here it is, courtesy of NYT's David Carr. This is a serious leap off the deep end. Retrenchment and clinging blindly to the past & protectionism is no way to move forward.
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Decide You Deserve Better: People essentially earn what they believe they deserve to earn. The main reason you aren’t earning more is because you know you don’t deserve it.
"Take whatever hourly figure you’re earning right now. Multiply it by 10. Then imagine yourself earning that much right now. Chances are it feels uncomfortable — maybe a bit scary, stressful, improbable, complicated, overly exciting, or just too “out there” for you to accept it as real. And that’s precisely why you aren’t earning that much. You’re making that figure into way too big a deal.
"…I wouldn’t call this a process of justifying higher incomes to yourself. It has more to do with giving yourself permission. You aren’t trying to give yourself a sales pitch here. You’re simply deciding that you want to earn more, and you’re findng a way to accept that it’s okay to do so."
