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The reason why the picture of the front page of the Cambridge Chronicle is on the right is here is because Anthony Galluccio was a State Senator who was involved in a hit and run accident and then sentenced to jail this week for violating his probation for having alcohol on his breath. So you [...]

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Tumblr, the microblogging platform that’s a simple tool for quickly posting text, photos, music, video, etc., has never included one surprising feature.  Comments.  I’ve never quite understood this decision that limits the social and interactive feature of a blog.  Sure you can add comments by tweaking the template code and using a third party like [...]

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Years ago the company that I worked for was acquired.  At the end of the company meeting where we were all welcomed into the new organization the president of the company buying us did a duet of Neil Young’s “Heart of Gold” with our creative director.  Their president looked suspiciously like Dilbert’s pointy haired boss [...]

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While writing up a review of the spectacular new ÜberTwitter release, word came that Seesmic had acquired Ping.fm.  If you don’t know Seesmic produces a range of Twitter clients for Windows, BlackBerry, Android, etc. and Ping.fm is a service for updating multiple social networks singularly or simultaneously via email, IM and text messaging. Put these [...]

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ÜberTwitter has kicked off the new year right with a new beta release that adds some great additions to what is already my favorite Twitter application for the BlackBerry.  You can get a complete list of the updates and bug fixes in the release on their website, but the most important, and useful, upgrades are [...]

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Over the holiday break I read Alberto Angela’s “A Day in the Life of Ancient Rome: Daily Life, Mysteries, and Curiosities,” a fascinating walk through Rome in 115 CE during the reign of Emperor Trajan. The book doesn’t focus on Roman history, but instead captures the sights, activities and attitudes of the residents of Rome [...]

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It’s 2010 and before a weekend of renewal to start off the year right I’m taking a look at the Trumblog’s analytics for 2009 and how it fared. Benchmarks In terms of major benchmarking metrics the blog has done well.   Visits are up 318% from 2008 with Absolute Unique Visitors up 377%. Page views are [...]

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