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David sent us a link the other day of Respectance being discussed on the the CNET podcast, Buzz Out Loud.

Buzz Out Loud is CNET’s “podcast of indeterminate length,” featuring Tom, Molly, and producer Veronica’s entertaining, sometimes caustic, and always skeptical take on technology news. This daily podcast features commentary, guests, and phone calls and e-mail from their listeners. And they send you links to everything they talk about in their Buzz Out Loud newsletter.

You can download the whole podcast. Otherwise, we’ve made a clip that you can listen to below

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(ZD Net.co.uk) I thought it was a joke at at first, the sort of thing PRs do when they’re being scurrilously witty. The invitation card shaped like a gravestone with a big lily on top - just that little too close to the sort of thing the B3tards get up to when they’re designing comedy willies. The gruesome copperplate script. The words “Journalist Opportunities” where the deceased’s moniker would normally go.
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I had the pleasure recently to be interviewed about Respectance by Sian Liu at Folksonomy.

We’re all big Folksonomy fans, so it’s great to appear along side interviews with people like Craig Newmark (Craigslist), Seth Godin, Tim Westergren (pandora), Gina Bianchini (Ning), Jimmy Wales (wikipedia), Dick Hardt (sxip), Todd Masonis (plaxo), etc. — even if Marcin and I had a little fun photoshopping my picture onto the Respectance background!

Read the whole interview here.

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(St. Louis Post-Dispatch) Just in the last few weeks: My wife, Georgina, and I made new investments with the money from maturing certificates of deposit. Our local telephone bill started coming from AT&T, the new name for BellSouth. The customer service number for our long-distance carrier changed. We switched Internet service providers and have a new account number (I kept my AOL address for work). All these changes have been duly recorded in the regularly updated and arguably most important document I keep — a lengthy file (at last count, 6,382 words) titled, “Read This If I Am Dead.”
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(Dunn County News) As Father’s Day approaches, I recall my father and the legacy left to my siblings and me. I couple those memories with the legacy my late husband passed to our children when they were just seven and nine years old. Both were men of faith, values and commitment to their families.
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