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dcu:

I’m a sucker for Muppets dressed as DC characters…

Awesome!

dcu:

I’m a sucker for Muppets dressed as DC characters…

Awesome!

SocialCode, Facebook and the GOP horserace

Great to see SocialCode utilizing their Facebook platform in a completely new and innovative manner in politics!

Shel Kaphan interview on Geekwire

Really happy to see Shel get some (virtual) ink. He did amazing things in the early days of Amazon, and I don’t think I’d be where I am today if he didn’t help me as much as he did during my first year at Amazon.

http://www.geekwire.com/2011/meet-shel-kaphan-amazoncom-employee-1

Pardon the self-promotion, but since I know Modern DC Business, a fledgling local business magazine, isn’t a common read (yet), I figured I’d link my little profile interview in this quarter’s issue. In truth, I didn’t know what to make of the publication, but then I saw Tim O’Shaughnessy’s profile there, and I knew it must be for real. Thanks to Hulya Aksu for the honor. And the magazine is definitely worth checking out!

Trove: Troving Reporter: Technically Speaking

trove:

The most-viewed channel over the past 24 hours is the iPhone channel, and that got this reporter to thinking: What are Trove’s most popular technology channels?

Here’s the answer to that question. If you’re an inspector of gadgets, here are a few channels you might want to add:

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Trove: Troving Reporter: Hardball and Fastballs

trove:

Maybe it’s all the talk of President Obama’s poll bump since the death of Osama bin Laden, or maybe it’s the flurry of excitement (kinda) over tonight’s Republican presidential debate, but politics appears to be on the minds of Trove visitors today.

Our U.S. Politics channel is today’s…

Stiff Jab.: Stiff Jab Goes Mainstream

Congrats to Gautham on his piece hitting The Atlantic!

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Today is an exciting day for us, and not just because we’re less than a week from Pacquiao v. Mosely. Head over to The Atlantic to get our editor’s list of “5 Reasons Boxing May Go Mainstream Again (And 5 Reasons It Won’t)”:

Despite the excitement over this weekend’s upcoming fight, many…

Trove: Now on Trove: Channel Recommendations

trove:

We’ve heard some great feedback about Trove’s Channel Finder: the set of boxes at the top of the page, programmed by our editors, that helps to highlight new and (hopefully) intriguing channels on the site.

Now, we’ve added another layer to help you, the user, discover channels to add to your…

Milo Milovanovich and I wrote the following piece in Slate on the Amazon Cloud outage. The team did a great job insulating itself for the most part from the outage.