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• New website offers very cool way to track Twitter users in the Triangle

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  Discovered September 11, 2009 at 11:02 am

  I’m so excited about this new site launched by my tweep, @mattrmiller. RTPeeps.com is a new way to track all the tweets sent by Triangle residents in real time. You can also find out who the most popular local tweeps are. The goal is to create a growing index of Triangle Twitter users. See it [...]

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• Local food blog will start publishing IP addresses on anonymous comments

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  Discovered September 1, 2009 at 1:01 pm

  The Durham food blog Carpe Durham is taking this step because it wants to provide some accountability. You see, the blog says (and I tend to agree) that comments on the Internet can have an impact (good or bad) on the reputation of local businesses. Find out more about this new policy here:

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• UNC-Chapel Hill chancellor has his own blog — who knew?!

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  Discovered August 30, 2009 at 9:02 am

  Chancellor Holden Thorp has his own blog. It’s only occasionally updated, but even still I think it’s pretty cool that the school’s chancellor is dipping his toes into the blogosphere. Past blog posts include him talking about the Rubik’s Cube contest he won in the ’80s and free bus rides.

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• N.C. State creates ’50s style video explaining why you need anti-virus software

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  Discovered August 27, 2009 at 11:29 am

  This ad for the NCSU free anti-virus software program is pretty well done and helps those who aren’t in-the-know understand why they need it for their computers. Take a look at this black and white video and forward it to someone who needs a layman’s breakdown.

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• Seven reasons why this Durham blogger isn’t following you on Twitter

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  Discovered August 25, 2009 at 3:02 pm

  If you’re on Twitter, then you know that there’s a decision-making process with each new follower notification. To follow back or not to follow back. Durham blogger Paul has a list of seven things he takes into consideration when he decides who to follow. Read his blog to see if he would follow you:

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• What are you doing? We are the generation of status updates

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  Discovered August 17, 2009 at 12:55 pm

  Triangle blogger Allison has a good post about the role status updates have played in her life. She starts out about reminding us of the good ol’ days, when our updates were simply part of away messages on AIM. How have facebook and Twitter affected her updates?

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• Downtown Durham Inc. launches video blog

  Result 7

  Discovered August 7, 2009 at 5:02 pm

  So far there’s just three videos, but if the downtown Durham boosters stick with it, it could be a cool addition to the Durham blog scene.

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• Informal Triangle Tweetup planned tonight in downtown Raleigh

  Result 8

  Discovered August 3, 2009 at 9:41 am

  If you’ve been eagerly awaiting another Triangle Tweetup, then wait no more. An informal tweetup is being planned at Edge Office in downtown Raleigh at 7 p.m. tonight. There’s another Tweetup Tuesday billed as a “West End Tweetup” for Chapel Hill, Carrboro tweeps.

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• UNC Journalism School gets new website, new curriculum

  Result 9

  Discovered July 31, 2009 at 3:15 pm

  The UNC Journalism School website received a redesign, and the results are clean and simple. The new site features social media integration, links to professor blogs and a section dedicated to the schools new curriculum for the 2009 academic year. See it here:

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• Red Hat could benefit from Google’s attempts to challenge Windows

  Result 10

  Discovered July 8, 2009 at 4:36 pm

  The Triangle Business Journal explains how Raleigh-based Red Hat could benefit from Google’s announcement that it will develop a free operating system. The OS will be developed by combining code from the open-source Linux operating system with the Google Chrome browser:

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