Phelps gets another accolade .Phelps gets another accolade.SI names Michael Phelps its .&.quot;Sportsman of the Year.&.Read the .full post.from .OH NO!via .Brand.Brand New Concerts Tickets.

Location-based advertising: Place trumps traditional targeting .Location-based advertising: Place trumps traditional targeting.Read the .full post.from .VentureBeat.Tags.Business and Technology.co:Eventful.co:1020 placecast.via .Brand. Tickets.

More from the IR trenches .More from the IR trenches.Dorothea Salo, IRs in 2009: the failure legacy, Caveat Lector, December 1, 2008.&.#160; Excerpt: An unexpected characteristic (at least to me) of SPARC Digital Repositories was the representation of quite a few institutional repositories that were either brand-new or still in the planning stages.Read the .full post.from .Open Access News.via .Brand. Brand New Tickets.

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What Makes Moguls Believe They Belong In the Book Business? .What Makes Moguls Believe They Belong In the Book Business.Eric Wolff went to work for the consulting firm McKinsey .&.amp; Company after graduating from college in the spring of 2005. As he described it at the time on his Facebook page, he spent the following summer reading books that “warn of the inadequacy of the American Dream, and how it tempts general.Read the .full post.from .Observer.com (The New York Observer).Tags.Media.Warren Buffett.Eric Wolff.McKinsey .&.Company.houghton mifflin harcourt.via .Brand. Concerts.

Burger King Does It Wrong: Whopper Virgin Ad is Sure to Offend and Entertain Brand New.Burger King Does It Wrong: Whopper Virgin Ad is Sure to Offend and Entertain.&.#160; Crispin, Porter and Bogusky, an advertising agency known for its edgy work, is about to launch its latest ad campaign for Burger King called Whopper Virgins early next week. They are taking the .&.quot;taste test.&.quot; concept to a new level by taking a Big Mac and Whopper to a rural farming vi.Read the .full post.from .Communication Overtones.Tags.Advertising.Viral.via .Brand.

Kamundse: Setback Newport Music Hall.kamundse: Setback.The goal was to get the server to the new co-lo by the end of November. We missed it. A big part of that was the Thanksgiving holiday and pretty much losing all of last week. But, another part of it is that it is really hard to do tech support. I have never envied the job of a phone tech support per.Read the .full post.from .Planet.via .Brand.

Hitchens and Walsh Battle Over Secretary of State Clinton Columbus.Hitchens and Walsh Battle Over Secretary of State Clinton.Vanity Fair's Christopher Hitchens and Salon's Joan Walsh squared off Monday evening on MSNBC's .&.quot;Hardball.&.Read the .full post.from .NewsBusters.org blogs.Tags.Salon.Barack Obama.Vanity Fair.MSNBC.Hillary Clinton.Hardball.Chris Matthews.Christopher Hitchens.Joan Walsh.via .Brand.

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Half-Pint Imitation Is Put on the Brink .Half-Pint Imitation Is Put on the Brink.“Never having a real speaking role before, I’ve been having to work on my, you know, my enunciation, my articulation, things like that,� said 27-year-old Matthew Risch, the luckiest ex-understudy in New York City. It was the last day of November, and he was sitting in front of a bulb-lined mir.Read the .full post.from .Observer.com (The New York Observer).Tags.o2.pal joey.Christian Hoff.Matthew Risch.via .Brand. Newport Music Hall Tickets.