Ewww…What’s That Smell? It’s MyStarbucksIdea.com

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• Starbucks is positioning its new MyStarbucksIdea.com site as a social network, but critics say it’s nothing more than a fancy online suggestion box. A real community, they argue, would encourage interaction between members. This one simply helps Starbucks to run its business better. That’s not bad, but it isn’t a community.
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Just An Online Minute » Blog Archive » Just An Online Minute… Video Action = Candidate Traction?

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The political candidates (Hillary Clinton in particular) are discovering that their campaign-trail statements are subject to scrutiny by skeptics and foes who are digging up old TV news clips and using them to counter claims made by the candidates.