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Official Google Blog: Better flight stats results
For the latest information on a flight’s status, simply search for an airline and flight number, and the first result will tell you whether your flight is on time or delayed as well as the estimated departure and arrival times.
(tags: google flight travel)

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Everything I Know, I Learned From ‘The Office’ - Advertising Age - Small Agency Diary
But no matter how silly Dunder Mifflin’s Michael Scott gets or how insane his leadership methods are, I believe watching episodes of The Office has helped me be a better boss — and it’s given me something to talk about with […]

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A Pro Athlete With Spare Millions? Lenny Dykstra Has Your Magazine - New York Times
Lenny Dykstra had a busy last week. He was named in the Mitchell report into performance enhancing drugs in baseball as someone who received steroids. He was also helping to start a magazine.
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A big takeout in the business section of the Sunday New York Times chronicles Google’s attempt to take on Microsoft’s software dominance. Having bested Redmond in search, Google is now pushing its suite of web-based office applications that are gaining in popularity, even if they’re still dwarfed by Microsoft. Microsoft remains a safe choice for […]

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Rough Type: Nicholas Carr’s Blog: Googlepedia
I’m guessing that serving as the front door for a vast ad-less info-moshpit outfitted with open source search tools is not exactly the future that Google has in mind for itself. Enter Knol.
(tags: google wikipedia search knol)

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Scoble To Leave PodTech, Heading For Fast Company
Famous blogger Robert Scoble will be leaving his current job at PodTech in mid January, he says. He will likely be joining Fast Company to start Fast Company TV.
(tags: scoble podtech techcrunch)

Remaking The Journal - New York Times
There are already firm plans to eliminate The Journal’s Marketplace section, […]

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Dashboards as Works of Art » Executive Dashboards
Dashboards have finally reached a critical mass as a distinct design pattern and method of conveying business intelligence. How do I know? When a Museum of Art prominently features its enterprise dashboard for its visitors, benefactors and board members t
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Interview with Graydon Carter | Media | The Guardian
They know how to do cult of personality in New York - sometimes it can feel like media blogs such as Gawker and Jossip or the Women’s Wear Daily diary (an unlikely but excellent source of media stories) are devoted solely to the “Condé Nasties” and their
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PC World - How Four Airlines Plan to Connect Fliers to the Web
In this overview of in-flight Internet capabilities, we take a look at what various airlines say they’ll be offering to their customers, which companies are building networks, and when we can expect to get full Web connections on planes.

Doris Lessing’s acceptance speech for […]

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Last Sunday, while most were watching football, Dell was announcing its latest agency situation. It’s hired WPP Group, one of the largest owners of ad agencies, to create an agency from scratch to service its $1.5 billion a year that business.  All major disciplines–ads, media, PR, direct–will be under one roof and there’s a single […]

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