The wind-power entrepreneurs at Kenetech have spent millionsin vain tosolve this avian mystery: Why have hundredsof raptors, including golden eagles, died alongside the windmills of Altamont Pass?
While most of us live on the outskirts of the social media landscape, tweeting the occasional brain fart and using facebook to update our relationship status, there are a select few who choose to take their engagement with the networks that be to a whole new level. For those special people who throw a fit when Twitter is down for five minutes, who get most of their news from the front page of fark or reddit or digg (and obsessively watch their "digg status" rise on the Top 1000 list), there i
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In a front-page story this morning on how "palpable" public outrage pushed a settlement in the BART labor situation, the Chronicle quoted all the usual suspects. But it continued to give an awful lot of credence to "Web forums" and the commenters on its Web site as a bellwether of public opinion. In fact, in a blog post preceding this article, reporter Carla Marinucci refers to the paper's Web comments -- on a contentious transit article, no less -- as "our ever
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