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Muck Rack Daily Brings You Some–But Not All–of the News That's Fit to Tweet

in Media on September 21, 2010 at 7:03 am PT

Yet another news aggregator? Yup. And this one is even more meta than most: Muck Rack Daily is a news service dedicated to telling you what journalists are saying, via Twitter, about the news. Indulgent and navel-gazing? Perhaps. Also potentially useful.

Weekend Update 02.06.10–The Winter Ain’t Over Edition

in News on February 6, 2010 at 12:30 pm PT

Torrential rain in the west and blizzard of death in the east can mean only one thing. Using a fat rodent to divine the weather is at at least as accurate as $100 million in geosynchronous weather satellites. So as AllThingsD battens down the hatches on both coasts, Weekend Update is here to be the perfect accompaniment to hot tea and power-outage candles. So charge up the laptop while you can, and read on for a full week’s tech trends straight from our intrepid team.