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Facebook Overhauling News Feeds To Be Content-Specific: Report

Photos, music, and more meant to be easier to find.

Facebook appears poised to overhaul its messy news feed, making it easier for users to filter. The filters will emphasize parts of the feed, like photos from Facebook or Instagram or a music feed. Photos will also be bigger on both the website and mobile site.

Facebook’s filtered music feed could be the most prominent change, as it would bring tighter integration with Spotify or Rdio and Facebook’s social systems, with current track info being shared to friends. There’s also said to be concert data and album releases. This may be a not-so-indirect assault on the newly revamped MySpace, leveraging Facebook’s bigger social networking muscles and enormous user base. It’s also a play to make more money as TechCrunch has said that ad images will be “more vivid,” and, thus, more clickable.

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via Fast Company http://www.fastcompany.com/3006661/tech-forecast/facebook-overhauling-news-feeds-foreground-instagram-spotify-rdio-more-report

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Carrie Fisher Will Play Princess Leia–Again–In The New Star Wars Movie

The iconic actress and author is getting back into the bucket of bolts again.

Carrie Fisher is to appear in the new movie in the Star Wars franchise. The actor, who played Princess Leia in the first three George Lucas films, confirmed the news with a simple “Yes,” in a Q&A with Palm Beach Illustrated.

Asked to describe how George Lucas’ sole female part with any lines–bar two–would probably be today, Fisher, no stranger to wit, said this.

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via Fast Company http://www.fastcompany.com/3006660/fast-feed/carrie-fisher-will-play-princess-leia-again-new-star-wars-movie?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+fastcompany%2Fheadlines+%28Fast+Company%29

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Obama, Republicans cooperate on spending — for now

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nev. pauses during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, March 5, 2013, following a Democratic strategy session. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)The two sides are quietly working in tandem to blunt the impact of short-term cuts.

via Yahoo! News – Latest News & Headlines http://news.yahoo.com/obama-republicans-cooperate-spending-now-080849680–finance.html

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Dennis Rodman parties in NYC, says he is ‘just trying to live’

Just back from visiting Kim Jong Un, Dennis Rodman was spotted at Sapphire Gentleman’s Club on Sunday. “We asked how North Korea was, and…

via NY Post: Page Six http://www.nypost.com/p/pagesix/no_more_politics_seESKVvUtzqKNMZo4KipUJ?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=Page%20Six

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Roger Ailes on His Looming Death, Whether God Is Partisan, and the Mementos He’s Collected to Leave His Son

In an exclusive excerpt of Zev Chafets’s biography of Roger Ailes, the Fox News president discusses his battle with hemophilia, his words with President Obama, and the time capsule of tokens he intends to bequeath to his young son.

via The Latest from VanityFair.com http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2013/03/roger-ailes-biography-excerpt

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N. Korea vows to cancel cease-fire

North Korean flag flutters on top of a tower at the propaganda village of Gijungdong in the demilitarised zoneThe country is upset about sanctions and U.S. military drills.

via Yahoo! News – Latest News & Headlines http://news.yahoo.com/nkorea-vows-cancel-korean-war-cease-fire-115128092.html

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Afghan Court Convicts 21 in Kabul Bank Scandal

After the failure of Kabul Bank, which investigators have described as a Ponzi scheme, two top executives were given five-year sentences, and others were convicted of a range of crimes.

via NYT > Most Recent Headlines http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/06/world/asia/afghanistan-convicts-21-in-kabul-bank-scandal.html

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Krugman, Scarborough spar on Charlie Rose

Their ongoing debate over the debt never found common ground during their on-air tussle.

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via POLITICO – TOP Stories http://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2013/03/krugman-scarborough-spar-on-charlie-rose-158451.html

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Hurricane Sandy Troll Returns to Twitter

Shashank Tripathi, better known as @comforablysmug, is notorious for creating more panic during Hurricane Sandy by sending out false Tweets about a complete blackout in Manhattan, flooding inside the New York Stock Exchange, and Con Edison workers trapped in a building. Tripathi was threatened with prosecution, quit his job as campaign manager for Republican congressional candidate Christopher R. Wight, and skulked off Twitter after apologizing on October 31, but BuzzFeed notes that he made a less than triumphant return to the site on Sunday.

His latest missives consist mainly of responses to his admirers, but there are also dispatches on his partying:

And foods he’s consumed:

If only we could trust that those are really pulled -pork pancakes.

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via Daily Intelligencer http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2013/03/hurricane-sandy-troll-returns-to-twitter.html

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Larissa MacFarquhar: The tragedy of Aaron Swartz.

paragraph class=”noindent”>HE COULD NOT deal with people talking about him. It’s taken me some time since he died to get used to talking about him because I was under such strict instructions not to. But he fucked up something really major. He made a really dumb . . .

via The New Yorker http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2013/03/11/130311fa_fact_macfarquhar