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Coliseum Stadium Plan For Oakland Athletics Revealed

The Commissioner of Baseball on Monday announced a new committee devoted to determining the viability of baseball in the East Bay. In his st...

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Carbonite Online Backup Company Loses Data; Carbonite Is At Fault

I had to post this because it's a classic example of not taking responsibility for something you did wrong. The online backup company C...

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4.4 Earthquake Hits The Bay Area Today

According to SFist -- I didn't feel a thing because I was sleeping after working until just about 4:30 in the morning -- there was a 4.4...

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A Night With the Stars: Jewish Community Center, SF, 4-21-09

Come out April 21st from 6 PM to 9 PM at the Jewish Community Center for "A Night With The Stars" at 3200 California, Street, San...

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Sierra and Zennie On GDC, Alternative Reality Games

I went to the San Francisco Game Developer Conference with my friend Sierra Choi (who did some executive producing work of the whole event)...

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Vote For The Alameda Point Development Plan May 19th 2009

On May 19th Alameda residents will be able to assure the economic future of the City of Alameda by voting for the Alameda Point Development ...

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Alameda, CA To Hold Election on Naval Air Station Development at Alameda Point

News is coming in from accross the pond that the election season has started early in Alameda this year and it looks like islanders ar...

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Team San Francisco Athletes Get Excited to Host the 2009 JCC Maccabi Games!

From the YouTube channel jccsfweb - Jessica Katzi (Volleyball) and Eliza "Ping" Kingsley-Ma (Soccer) speak about what it means to ...

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Behind The Alice 97.3 Morning Show and The Secret Show

Take a look at the Alice 97.3 Morning Show and the Secret Show

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Golden Gate Bridge on a sunny day

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Oakland Police Murders Media Misrepresent Oakland

In the wake of the Oakland Police murders, the Associated Press and CNN have given a false view of Oakland as having "tentions between...

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Paul Krugman is WRONG about The Obama TARP Plan

Economist Paul Krugman has been attacking the Obama / Geitner Troubled Assets Relief Plan (TARP) as using taxpayer money to pay investors to...

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Personal Injury Law In A Recession: Robert Schock

Bob Schock is Oakland's best personal injury lawyer. We talk about lawsuits in a recession and how businesses can protect themselves and...

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Jasmina Needs Bone Marrow Transplant 5 Yr Old

Jasmina is a five-year old who needs a bone marrow transplant; because she's Black it's hard to find someone who can help. You can a...

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Suzzane Agasi , Founder of ClothingSwap.org Talks

Suzanne Agasi is founder of the popular ClothingSwap events. Here she talks about, well, ClothingSwap and what it is. Visit the site at http...

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San Francisco roundtable- Halloween in the Castro, Bay to Breakers

Christina Marie (www.SFLIVETV.com) kicks around the topic " Is San Francisco still fun? " No more Halloween in the Castro, nudity ...

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What Is New Media To You? - WISE-SF Panel Intro From 2008

I created this video to open the panel discussion on "Blogs, New Media, and You: Managing Your Digital Identity" at the WISE-SF Pa...

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BART Shooting: Rockridge BART Protest 3-19-09

I exited Rockridge BART Station and walked into a protest of the New Year's Day shooting of Oscar Grant by BART Police Officer Johannes ...

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Newspaper Managers Don't Understand New Media

Newspaper Managers don't understand New Media at all. It's the key reason why papers all over America are failing. As more media ou...

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2009 St Patrick's Day Parade - San Francisco

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My 2009 Patrick's Day in San Francisco

This YouTuber in SF tries video-blogging for the first time.

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State of California - Developing an Economic Recovery Strategy

From the California Assembly YouTube channel: (Sacramento) Led by Assemblymember Manuel Pérez (D-Coachella), the Committee on Jobs, Econo...

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The 2009 San Francisco Giants Offseason Part I / MLB Basebal

What exactly was the Giants offseason plan? They'll tell you it was going young, but was it really? Or it was and Sabean just reverted t...

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The 2009 San Francisco Giants Offseason Part II

I started my review of the Giants 2009 offseason here http://www.rootzoo.com/articles/view/MLB-Baseball/San-Francisco-Giants/The-2009-San-Fr...

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Speaker Pelosi calls ICE Enforcement Officials Un-American

Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Texas) criticized House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Cali.) today for her remarks at a San Francisco immigration rally last w...

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San Francisco Mayor Draws Fire For Excessive Travel

Gavin Newsom has spent the equivalent of more than nine months traveling outside of California. With the ever-worsening city's budget de...

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The Facial Motion Capture Technology used in Benjamin Button

With customers as Digital Domain, Electronic Arts, Marvel Studios or Rhythm & Hues the creators of Contour, the company headquartered in...

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First Running Toilet Acoustic Leak Detector Demo-ed in SF!

We at Leakbird Industries are proud to be part of next week’s Water Conservation Showcase, on Tuesday, March 24, from 10:00 am to 7:30 pm, a...

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Life Sciences Applauds Jerry Hill's Appointment to Chair

California's life sciences industry applauded Speaker Karen Bass's appointment of Assemblyman Jerry Hill (D - San Mateo) to chair th...

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Recession Could End In '09, Bernanke Tells 60 Minutes

America's recession “probably” will end this year if the government succeeds in bolstering the banking system, Federal Reserve Chairman ...

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A.I.G. Paying $160 Million in Bonuses After Federal Bailout

An Obama economic adviser described the A.I.G. situation as “outrageous” but said the government had limited ability to scale back the bonus...

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Cafe owner thrives with no-pricing policy

Cafe owner Sam Lippert has come up with an innovative way to cope with the recession: He's done away with pricing and simply asks custom...

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Obama Is Blaming Bush for Economy Meltdown.

In his inaugural address, President Obama proclaimed "An end to the petty grievances and false promises, the recriminations and worn-ou...

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Conservative Talk Radio on the Wane

For all the anti-tax swagger and the occasional stunts by personalities like KFI's John and Ken, the reality is that conservative talk r...

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Dems' new push: GOP as 'The Party of No'

Beginning Sunday, the White House will harness every part of the Democratic Party’s machinery to defend President Obama’s budget and portray...

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Obama Orders Treasury Chief to Try to Block A.I.G. Bonuses

The president said that he has instructed Timothy F. Geithner to “pursue every single legal avenue” to block bonuses to the insurer’s top ex...

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Israeli forces shoot American activist Tristan Anderson

IWant Democracy Now -- US Consul General Says Awaiting Israeli Report on IDF Shooting of American Citizen An American activist from Oaklan...

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SF Pastor Lucy Kolin - from PICO affiliate Oakland Community Organizations

Pastor Lucy Kolin - from PICO affiliate Oakland Community Organizations in California - appeared on CNN's Faces of Faith program to talk...

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Star Trek Movie: Where Are The Black Men?

There's a lack of Black men in the Star Trek trailers and director J.J. Abrams called and invited Tyler Perry to be in the movie to make...

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Senator Barbara Boxer On The Oakland A's at SF Fundraiser: "I Live In Oakland"

On the way to a fundraiser for Senator Barbara Boxer on Sunday (March 15th 2009), I walked into the Four Seasons Residences on Market Street...

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S.F.'s Third St. may be renamed after Willie Brown

More at SFGate.com : “Mayor Gavin Newsom wants to rename San Francisco's Third Street after Willie Brown, one of the city's most pow...

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Print journalism must adapt to times

The San Francisco Chronicle will either be sold or shut down, as the latest in a long string of newspaper casualties across the nation. Just...

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SF Climate Change Examiner: San Francisco bay area property

San Francisco Bay Area property is threatened as growing evidence of rising sea levels prompts research . The latest report yesterday shows ...

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San Francisco Internet Hot Spots Revealed

A phone application reveals San Francisco hot spots and will soon show where certain "tribes" gather. read more | digg story

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Apple to preview new iPhone software next week

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Apple will hold an event next Tuesday to preview new software for the iPhone, the company said. Apple said in an ...

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Police Union Accuses Ayers of Murder

A San Francisco police union has accused former domestic terrorist William Ayers, co-founder of the Weather Underground, and his wife in a 1...

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Cozy and Elegant Roots Restaurant in San Francisco

The Orchard Garden Hotel is California’s first hotel built to the nationally accepted standards for green buildings, and inside is the lovel...

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Ha! Chicago no longer 2nd city, according to Twitter.

Chicago has been called "the Second City" compared to New York for generations, and we're not as known for our tech industry a...

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Newsom Oakland Town Hall Interrupted By Bayview Protester...

San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom came to Oakland to give a town hall meeting on his plans for California as governor. The meeting went well,...

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S.F. Chronicle - "Blogs are Killing Newspapers"

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San Francisco Chronicle Owned By Craigslist? A Possible Future

According to Real Clear Politics , The San Francisco Chronicle is one of ten newspapers in trouble. The total list in order from "stil...

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Star Trek Messes-Up San Francisco: Skyline Like Hong Kong

I'm looking forward to the new Star Trek movie and the great story and special effects, but I'm not looking forward to how the movie...

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Sunday Movie In SF: "Medicine For Melancholy" At Embarcadero Theater

I just got an email regarding the screening of a new movie called "Medicine for Melancholy" which is tommorrow at 7:20 PM. You ca...

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Michael Jackson? CNN, I Will Not Impersonate Michael Jack...

Michael Jackson annouced he would hold his last concert of his life in London this summer. In celebration, CNN's iReport team came up wi...

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San Francisco-Based New America Media Talks to Spot.Us

This is an interesting video that shows where media is headed in America. It's by Spot.us and is about the story investment needs of Ne...

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Let's Talk About Race: Zennie To Baratunde and Cenk

Cenk Ugkar and Baratunde Thurston have engaged in a great conversation about race in the wake of the NY Post Cartoon matter. I disagree with...

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Rush Limbaugh Is Wrecking The GOP And I LOVE IT!

http://www.zennie62.com -- Rush Limbaugh's idiological rants are out of touch with an economic reality that will keep The Democrats in p...

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BARE Magazine Launch Party, Berkeley, CA 2-28-09

I attended a great launch party of a new and innovative magazine called BARE. It was started by UC Berkeley student Doreen Bloch and capture...

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Google 2009 "Brands" Search Focus Hurts Bloggers

A month ago, Google made a decision to focus on "brands" such that in searches for companies or public figures like former Oakland...

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