As someone who occassionally (read: almost never) has enough money to warrant an ING Savings account, I just received this email from Arkadi Kuhlmann, CEO of Savings at ING. Looks like 2009 isn’t going to be any fun, either: The consequences of the mortgage meltdown on financial institutions and individuals continue to erode many…
Al Gore’s TV network, Current, has joined forces with Twitter to Hack the Debates. Twitter users watching the debates can send a tweet with the additional extension “#current” which will be scraped for inclusion. According to an AP article by Jake Coyle: During the debates, the network bent on viewer-created content will broadcast Twitter…
In today’s New York Times, Dowd, Friedman, and Rich hold little back in their reading of the construction and marketing of, rhetoric coming from, and misreading by Sarah Palin and the (seemingly vanishing) John McCain: Dowd’s first sentence in “Bering Straight Talk”: I’ve been in Alaska only a week, but I’m already feeling ever…