During the Twitter Town Hall collaboration with the White House, President Obama posted a single tweet to @whitehouse, asking this question: This was historic for two reasons: it was the first time that a President has ever posted directly to a social network from the White House. Second, it was the first time the President's directly asked for feedback from users of a social network. There was some great analysis of the Twitter Town Hall activity, including TwitSprout's infographics and Radian6's detailed postmortem on Wednesday. Both focused on the #askobama questions that were asked before and during the Town Hall.... | Continue »

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So, here, finally, is the Darth Vader fabric Duro. It's not really pressed, and until I uploaded the picture I didn't realize it wasn't straight on my mannequin, but, nevertheless, here it is. I showed it to Mr. Dress A Day last night, and his reaction was, "Well, the houndstooth... | Continue »

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The 25th-anniversary celebration for Interior Design's ranking of hospitality giants included some familiar faces, including DWR employees and industry partners. Shown above: Moroso export manager Marco Cappelli and Moroso USA CEO George Kordaris; (8) Edelman Leather vice president of marketing Echo MacKenzie and marketing coordinator Rachel Parks; (9) Design Within... | Continue »

One of the most common questions I get from friends when discussing my new(ish) relationship is how long Campfriend* and I have been dating. (*We went to summer camp together for eight years (starting when we were eight), so for... | Continue »

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Google does social: "Let me know if you are still getting flooded with tortoise pictures and the like." - Sergey Brin, http://t.co/jSpLERy | Continue »

Splitscreen: a love story. C'est la vidéo qui a remporté le concours Nokia 2011. J'ai rien de plus à ajouter, c'est juste beau. | Continue »

Did you get a visit from the Google Feature Fairy yesterday? I did, and some lovely new colors appeared in the top navigation bar. I saw some changes on the Grand Ol’ Search Engine page, too. Then, a curious little... | Continue »

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A few links to my most recent columns in the Boston Globe: What's Missing from Your Dictionary? Pun Times (review) When Real Events Overtake Metaphors How To Read A Word (review) One Prius, Two ... What? If there's a language topic you'd like me to write about, please feel free... | Continue »

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Release issues at a reasonable price of $0.99 to $1.99 each. Release issues the same day print copies ship to comic book stores. Publish all current titles on the iPad. Begin publishing back issues and series in groups (ie: X-Men #1-100) and sell them in groups of 25 or 50... | Continue »

Blockquotes are used for a myriad of things--think recipes, quotations, poetry; it's something that has enough significance, or requires emphasis, to be set apart from the rest of your blog text. Our goal with this... | Continue »

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