Twitter, Apple Ping Connect for Music Discovery

Twitter, Apple Ping Connect for Music Discovery
Twitter and Apple are now syncing up to let iTunes users of the Ping social network port their posts as Twitter tweets, a pairing that could spur Facebook to connect with Ping.
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The five most important beats for a local newspaper or website
By Robert Niles: Even though I no longer subscribe to a newspaper , I hope that fact won’t lead you to infer that I don’t support local newsrooms. I just believe that newspapers must reinvent themselves to survive in the Internet era. Online news start-ups must structure themselves not along traditional newsroom beat line-ups, but choose instead a new design that better connects their reporters …
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Biomass project proposal taking lots of heat
KEITH WHITCOMB JR. POWNAL — Public opposition and a financial deadline could be merging to threaten a proposed 29.5-megawatt biomass generating and integrated wood pellet manufacturing facility.
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