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puppies 520x245 Barkles is Twitter for Debates While Twitter, Google+, Facebook and just about any social network you can think of has become home to more debates than we could possibly imagine, a new niche social network wants to get in on the online debating action. Barkles is a social network all ...

Miami-Dade County Mayor Carlos Gimenez will travel to Israel on Sunday to participate in Project Interchange, a six-day leadership and educational seminar. The Mayor will join a delegation of mayors and municipal leaders from U.S. metropolitan areas - including Houston, Cincinnati, Portland and St. ...

The arrest on child-abuse charges of a one-time assistant football coach at a prominent American university has quickly broadened into a major scandal. The president of Pennsylvania State University and the school's enormously popular football coach, Joe Paterno, have been dismissed, and further consequences ...

The Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Act was enacted 25 years ago Nov. 16. Former Congressman Don Bonker, who served on the gorge commission, writes about how the unique management of the gorge is imperiled by waning funding from Oregon and Washington.

Our media landscape is evolving fast, and 2012 will certainly be the year of big changes in how we view media. Internet-based TV viewing will come of age, reaching the masses through the growing number of smart TVs and mobile streaming. For brands that have until now relied heavily on TV advertising, ...

Protect the Coastal Plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge with wilderness status and back off risky plans for offshore oil drilling in the Chukchi and Beaufort seas.

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Dear Radio Friend, The latest Shortwave Report (November 11) is up at the website http://www.outfarpress.com/shortwave.shtml in 3 forms- (new) HIGHEST QUALITY (128kb)(27MB), broadcast quality (16MB), and quickdownload or streaming form (6MB) (28:59) Links at page bottom This week's show features stories ...

Adobe puts their support behind HTML 5 and ends further development of Flash on mobile browsers. Somewhere Steve Jobs is smiling. Warner Bros. takes down files they never even saw, which makes us feel great about the future of the Stop Piracy Online Act. Plus, a Rotisserie Meatball Passes Between Earth ...

Is a no-follow rule a serious social media faux pas? Inc.com columnist Jeff Haden tests the waters. Is not following people—and especially not following the people who follow you—a sign of arrogance on Twitter? That’s what one reader, Jordan Koene, suggested to me in a comment on a recent post that ...