Today's Feeds (BETA)

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Top Stories - Mainstream

• Twitter banned in Pakistan

  Dawn
  via Dawn - 74 tweets; 16 diggs(about 5 hours ago)

• Solar eclipse: How to safely watch this evening's 'ring of fire'

  Christian Science Monitor
  via Christian Science Monitor - 2 diggs(about 5 hours ago)

• Heartland Institute facing uncertain future as staff depart and cash dries up

  The Guardian
  via Google News

• Solar Eclipse 2012: How to See "Ring of Fire" Today

  National Geographic
  via National Geographic

• Ban Ki-moon: Eradicate polio, finally

  Los Angeles Times
  via NewsRack, Google News

• Fighting Climate Change With Low-Tech Tools

  Bloomberg
  via Google News

• The end of fish, in one chart

  Washington Post
  via Peter Daou, Memeorandum - 3 tweets; 71 diggs(about 5 hours ago)

• Afghan Karzai: Thanks for ‘your taxpayers’ money’

  Yahoo! News
  via Yahoo News - 4 diggs(about 5 hours ago)

• Georgia woman with flesh-eating disease in "critical" condition

  Reuters
  via Google News - 14 tweets(about 5 hours ago)

• West Indies raise victory hopes

  BBC News
  via BBC News

• Despite the Buzz, Social-Media Users Still Not Really Interested in Your Ads | Rance Crain

  Advertising Age
  via Dave Winer - 438756 tweets(about 5 hours ago)

• Pakistan Blocks Twitter Over Cartoon Contest

  New York Times
  via Amy Gahran, Google News

• $1M donor once wanted for 'criminal mischief'

  The Politico
  via The Politico

• Facebook IPO Will Be Felt Throughout Social Business Space - The BrainYard

  InformationWeek
  via Google News

• $19bn and just married ... I hope Mark Zuckerberg got a prenup, says Donald Trump - Telegraph

  Daily Telegraph
  via Daily Telegraph

Top Stories - Independent

• Gunpowder Plot in popular culture - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

  Wikipedia
  via Jeff Jarvis, John Bracken - 32 tweets(about 5 hours ago)

• Silicon Valley Can Do Better Than Facebook

  TechCrunch (Opinion)
  via Alexis Madrigal, Dave Winer

• Steven Strauss: America: Slouching Towards Third World Status

  Huffington Post
  via Huffington Post

• Science Blogging in Sub-Saharan Africa

  Global Voices (Opinion)
  via Global Voices

• Cory Booker, surrogate from hell

  Salon
  via Real Clear Politics

• King-Sized No More

  Reason Magazine
  via Reason - 2 diggs(about 5 hours ago)

• USS Iowa Tow Delayed

  The Moderate Voice (Opinion)
  via The Moderate Voice

• RealClearPolitics - Biden's Words Fall on Deaf Ears in Ohio

  Real Clear Politics (Opinion)
  via Real Clear Politics - 5 tweets(about 5 hours ago)

• Cory Booker ‘Very Uncomfortable’ With Attacks On Bain

  Talking Points Memo (Opinion)
  via Memeorandum

• Campbell Brown, Wife Of Top Romney Adviser, Says Obama Is ‘Condescending’ To Women

  Think Progress (Opinion)
  via Memeorandum

• Congress Wants the Department of Defense to Propagandize Americans

  Informed Comment (Opinion)
  via Informed Comment - 2 tweets; 1 digg(about 5 hours ago)

• PM: Number of illegal migrants may reach 600,000 - Israel News,

  Ynetnews
  via Google News - 3 tweets(about 17 hours ago)

• Abbreviated Pundit Roundup: Republicans and the state of denial

  Daily Kos (Opinion)
  via NewsRack

• Soda-ad fight bubbles up on NYC transit

  Grist
  via Grist