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Meanwhile, Hadoop News
Check out the news today: Yahoo! recently launched what we believe is the worlds largest Apache Hadoop production application. The Yahoo! Search Webmap is a Hadoop application that runs on a more than... (Go to Searchblog Main)

News without the fear
Ticker Tape is an internet radio for people who suffer from Euphobia, "a persistent, abnormal and unwanted fear of hearing good news". Designed by Will Carey, it was exhibited at the work in progress show of the RCA in London a few ...

Sunstein to join Harvard Law School faculty
... Dean Elena Kagan '86 announced today. Sunstein, currently a tenured professor at the University of Chicago Law School, will begin teaching at HLS in the fall. He will also become director of the new Program on Risk Regulation.

The Lady Sings the News
Natalie Bancroft, News Corp.'s newest board member, is standing in a hotel parking lot belting out the opening notes of "In the Silence of the Night." The song is by Rachmaninoff, her favorite composer, and showcases Bancroft's dramatic ...

Top ten tax deductions for homeowners
Attention homeowners: Your home may be brimming with tax advantages. Do you know about all the breaks you are entitled to?

Fishing News
“Roosevelt will be going through what we call the ‘new lake syndrome.’ Its productivity will go right off the charts – again. Roosevelt will quite possibly become the best bass and crappie fishery in the Western United States, ...

Digg Gets More Mainstream; But Are Their News Sources Too Narrow Now?
Allen Stern over at CenterNetworks did an analysis of current frontpage stories on digg, the popular social news site that started out as a tech competitor to Slashdot. Allen noted that now just 15% of frontpage stories are technology ...

The simplest podcast API ever
A new service from BlogTalkRadio... Call their special phone number: 646-200-0000. It records the call. When you're done it creates an RSS 2.0 feed with an enclosure that's an MP3 of the call. The address of the feed is a function of ...

New ARRL Section Managers in San Diego, Louisiana and Virginia
In the only contested Section Manager race this winter, Steve Early, AD6VI, was elected ARRL San Diego Section Manager with 332 votes; his opponent, Pat Bunsold, WA6MHZ, received 264 votes. Election ballots were counted today at ARRL ...

News Corp’s Bancroft - ain’t no dummy
Natalie Bancroft, handpicked by News Corp to represent Dow Jones’s Bancroft family on its board, is more than qualified. So says News Corp, her dad and well, Natalie herself. The 27-year-old opera singer in training breaks her silence ...