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Post-Mortem: Brief Outage This morning

At 12:26am Eastern Time this morning, Newstex Emergency Support Staff began receiving automated alerts indicating that several of our key-systems were encountering errors. We quickly jumped into action and verified that several of our FTP servers and delivery servers had been effected by a temporary outage. We tracked the root problem back to an issue with Amazon SimpleDB.

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Publisher INsider – Financial Sense Newshour

Time for the Publisher INsider where we highlight some of the most INovative, INteresting and INspirational content providers that are part of Newstex Authoritative Content.

This month, the Publisher INsider profiles Financial Sense Newshour whose online video content is offered through Newstex Authoritative Content.

Financial Sense Newshour is a free financial market broadcast hosted by money manager Jim Puplava where he discusses the week’s market action, interviews financial experts, and offers his personal perspective on the markets and economy. 

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Law Firms See Value in Twitter

This week, Joe Raczynski, an Applications Integrator for Thomson Reuters, Legal wrote a guest blog post on Legal Current, a blog from Thomson Reuters that offers information and commentary on the business and practice of law.  In his post, Joe explains the many opportunities that Twitter offers to law firms, including:

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Blogs are Still Alive and Thriving

blogThere has been much buzz online recently about the future of blogging since popular blogger Steve Rubel announced that he was giving up blogging in favor of Twitter and FriendFeed.  Not surprisingly, many bloggers have taken sides on this debate.  I’m definitely on the side for blogs.  While they might take longer to write, that’s what I like to do. 

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Social Media Time Management Strategies

Hat tip to Joe Pulizzi at Junta42 for posting a video clip from a presentation by Andrew Davis of TippingPoints Lab from Custom Media Day in New York last month.  I just stumbled upon it now, but I wanted to publish the clip here as well because it provides exactly what many people involved in the social Web and social media need — a time management strategy.

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2009 SIIA NetGain – Cloud Computing and Video On Demand

Larry Schwartz, President of Newstex discusses Cloud Computing and Video On Demand at the 2009 SIIA NetGain Conference held in San Francisco, CA.

Larry Schwartz, President of Newstex speaks at 2009 SIIA NetGain Conference about Newstex’s use of Cloud Computing and Newstex’s Video on Demand produc

2009 Newstex SIIA NetGain Presentation
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