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Digg, Social News, and Social Authority Building

Posted April 16th, 2008 by Marl
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What is Digg?

Digg ( http://www.digg.com ) is a news-oriented, or “social news” website, where the majority of its content is submitted by its users. Digg’s users also rate the site’s content, determining what’s important enough to go on the front page, and what should be removed. After signing up for a free account, Digg’s users can submit, review, vote on, and comment on news stories and other content they find on the Internet.

The idea is that instead of searching the web for useful content, people can just make one stop at Digg and see the latest current events, feature stories, videos, podcasts, and other content ‘ selected and rated by users instead of by an editor.

Digg is an important tool in building your online presence.

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10 facts on climate change and health

Posted April 5th, 2008 by Sandy
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Overwhelming evidence shows that human activities are affecting the global climate, with serious implications for public health. Catastrophic weather events, variable climates that affect food and water supplies, new patterns of infectious disease outbreaks, and emerging diseases linked to ecosystem changes, are all associated with global warming and pose health risks.

Climate and weather already exert strong influences on health: through deaths in heat waves, and in natural disasters such as floods, as well as influencing patterns of life-threatening vector-borne diseases such as malaria.

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Ancient Roman Emperor Augustus first house opens in Rome

Posted March 16th, 2008 by ashley
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ROME -- Four frescoed rooms in Ancient Roman Emperor Augustus's House on Rome's Palatine Hill opened to the public for the first time on Sunday.

A view of the frescoed ceiling of one of the rooms of the first century

palace of Emperor Augustus on Rome's Palatine Hill during a tour for

 the media, in this Dec. 10, 2007 file photo. Four frescoed rooms in

Ancient Roman Emperor Augustus's House on Rome's Palatine Hill

opened to the public for the first time on Sunday.

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Train-bus crash kills 18 in Argentina

Posted March 16th, 2008 by ashley
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Policemen walk near the rail crossing where a passenger train crashed into a bus in Dolores, Buenos Aires province, Argentina March 9, 2008. A train crashed into a bus in Argentina early on Sunday, killing 18 people and injuring about 45, local media reported. "It seems the driver of the bus passed when the barrier was down and the train cut the bus in half," Daniel Scioli, the provincial governor, told local television at the crash scene. 

Rescue workers and local residents walk around wreckage at the crossing where a passenger train crashed into an interprovincial bus, in the city of Dolores, Buenos Aires province March 9, 2008.At least 18 people were killed and 45 injured in the crash, local media reported.

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The Year of the Frog

Posted March 16th, 2008 by ashley
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Four Australian Corroboree Frogs sit on a zoo keeper's hand at Taronga Zoo in Sydney March 10, 2008. Australian zoos have joined world zoos in a conservation strategy for The Year of the Frog 2008, to help avert the increase in frog extinctions across the globe. The Corroboree Frog is one of Australia's most endangered species, with fewer than 200 of the frogs existing in the wild.

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Heavy snow in US Midwest

Posted March 16th, 2008 by ashley
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Highway and utility crews worked overtime Sunday to recover from the huge storm that buried Ohio and other parts of the Midwest in snow and tore down power lines elsewhere.

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Indonesian jetliner skids off runway

Posted March 16th, 2008 by ashley
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A man looks at an Adam Air plane which skidded off the runway at Batam airport March 10, 2008. The Indonesian passenger plane, which was carrying 174 people, skidded off the runway in heavy rain during a landing on the island of Batam on Monday, injuring five people, an airline spokesman and a doctor said.

An Adam Air plane, which skidded off the runway, is seen at Batam airport March 10, 2008. The Indonesian passenger plane, which was carrying 174 people, skidded off the runway in heavy rain during a landing on the island of Batam on Monday, injuring five people, an airline spokesman and a doctor said.

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Haute Dog Couture Fashion Show in San Diego

Posted March 16th, 2008 by ashley
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A fawn Pug, Liesje, wears a pink cotton polo shirt from Old Navy during a Haute Dog Couture Fashion Show at Fashion Valley shopping center in San Diego, California March 14, 2008.

Keno, a miniature American Eskimo, from the San Diego Humane Society wears a Gucci wool jacket and tan baseball hat during a Haute Dog Couture Fashion Show at the Fashion Valley shopping center in San Diego, California  March 14, 2008.

A miniature Yorkshire Terrier, Rockie, wears an Aqua hoodie with orange trim from Old Navy during a Haute Dog Couture Fashion Show in San Diego, California  March 14, 2008.

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Man walks pet girl friend

Posted March 15th, 2008 by ashley
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Dani Graves (L) walks his girlfriend Tasha Maltby on a leash in the street in England. A bus driver refused to let them board his bus in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire. The couple complained to the bus company. Maltby defended her lifestyle saying she enjoyed being a "pet."

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Man stands in ice for 72 minutes, sets record

Posted March 15th, 2008 by ashley
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In this photo provided by Rubin Museum of Art, Wim Hof, of the Netherlands, stands up to his neck in ice for an hour and twelve minutes,outside the Rubin Museum of Art in New York, Saturday, Jan. 26, 2008.

NEW YORK — A man who calls himself a tantric master broke his own world record by standing engulfed in ice for 72 minutes.

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