There was a great, inspiring article in yesterday’s Los Angeles Downtown News.  Commander Andy Smith of the LAPD was profiled in the newspaper as a ‘good bye’ from the downtown community.   Smith has accepted assignment to South Bureau Criminal Gang Homicide Group, where he should continue his string of successes.
When you have advocates for the [...]

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The NY Times reports on changes underway at the Wall Street Journal:
Mr. Murdoch has said that he wants to broaden The Journal’s appeal with more general-interest news. Now, the front page has shorter articles and more breaking and nonbusiness news, and particularly favors politics. The paper has set aside pages for world news and added [...]

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LinkedIn, my favorite of the social networks, has rolled out an awesome new feature called Company Profiles (as reported in TechCrunch, full walk-through available here). Heretofore, I used LinkedIn as a rolodex and for competitive intelligence, but this new feature is truly game changing.
The user-supplied information, though prone to all sorts of error, gives [...]

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Ever wish snow was more than just… snow? Of course you have… you always wanted that lame snowman to turn to life and become Frosty. A little winter magic was all you needed.
Well, not quite Frosty, but BLDGBLOG imagined a crazy future where cities create scented snow:
You go skiiing in Mont Tremblant [...]

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