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Here’s What The @NYTimes Should Teach Its Writers About Social Media

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He can write well about economics but dude can’t Tweet. It’s no wonder Buzzfeed, Vox, Upworthy and others are growing leaps. Rupert Murdoch is nearly 84 and he seems to have figured out how to be authentic on Twitter and even engage a bit as you can see if you follow his amusing Tweet stream. And he follows 2 whole people.

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Why Has LA Suddenly Gotten So Much Attention from VCs and Entrepreneurs?

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Is it any surprise to see Zulily in Seattle, Wayfair in Boston, ExactTarget in Indianapolis, TrueCar in Los Angeles, GroupOn in Chicago or BuzzFeed in NYC? And of course we have great public companies that have spanned content & communications like J2 Global whose market cap as of this writing is a cool $2.5