San Francisco

San Francisco is the fourth-largest city in California. Despite the fact that it is not the largest city in the state, it is truly a major center of politics and culture. Its outspoken style and politically liberal climate have made San Francisco synonymous with the GLBT and green movements. Its tolerant outlook makes it a home to countless artists, musicians, and social experiments. Its bevy of colleges and universities and proximity to Silicon Valley make it a major home of technology; and it's just down the road from wine country, resulting in its status as an epicurean epicenter.

Although it is occasionally hamstrung by its own sense of irony, San Francisco (along with the greater Bay Area) consistently produces vast amounts of geek cool, sophisticated culture, and intellectual experimentation. Such Internet pillars as Wired and Yelp have their roots in San Francisco, as do revered blogs Laughing Squid and BoingBoing. Burning Man calls this city home, too.

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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “San Francisco”

• Lou Dobbs Announces Decision To Leave CNN

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 708
  By Madhuri DeySan Francisco, Nov. 12 (THAINDIAN NEWS) Media outlets were shocked by a news that came from one of the godfathers of their own world. Lou Dobbs, the advocacy anchor of the CNN, announced on Wednesday on his regular broadcast at 7p.m. that he is about to leave the channel. He said that it [...]
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• Japantown, San Francisco

  
  skineart.com — Authority: 158
  Japantown, San Francisco Japantown is a mix of Japanese stores, old Victorians, and other Asian businesses. Watercolor pencils, ink and water brushes.
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• Expanding girls’ horizons: workshops bid to make science sexy

  
  GenevaLunch — Authority: 448
  Students regularly visit EPFL in Lausanne, but more boys than girls opt to go Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - Only 15 percent of women in Switzerland are active in information technology, and only five percent of Swiss engineers are women. This brainpower deficit is addressed in Geneva for the first time by a ...
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• SAN FRANCISCO: Anti-Semitic swastika graffiti found at playground

  
  Jewish Internet Defense Force — Authority: 486
  by Brent Begin, SF ExaminerParents and their children discovered several anti-Semitic writings scrawled around the Glen Park Playground on Wednesday. The graffiti was cleaned in a matter of hours, and it’s being investigated as a possible hate crime.Several large swastikas, epithets and phallic images on a mural ...
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• Is Google Scary? Not to Silicon Valley, Even at a Party for a Book About How Scary It Could Be!

  
  BoomTown — Authority: 737
  While at a book party for author Ken Auletta in San Francisco last night, BoomTown took the opportunity to ask those gathered whether they were scared or not of Google and its growing power. The Auletta book covers a lot about the search giant, but also drills in on how traditional media and advertising, as well as ...
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• Justice Dept. Asked For News Site’s Visitor Lists

  
  War On You: Breaking Alternative News — Authority: 548
  In a case that raises questions about online journalism and privacy rights, the U.S. Department of Justice sent a formal request to an independent news site ordering it to provide details of all reader visits on a certain day. The grand jury subpoena also required the Philadelphia-based Indymedia.us Web site “not ...
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• Author Ken Auletta Talks About Google and Its "Lack of Emotional Intelligence"

  
  BoomTown — Authority: 737
  Guess what? Google has too many Spocks and not enough Captain Kirks. That was one of the many interesting insights BoomTown gleaned from a video interview last night–which you can see below–with well-known New Yorker scribe Ken Auletta, who has just written a new book , “Googled: The End of the World as We ...
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• The San Francisco Democrat (Susan Estrich)

  
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• Crabbing – Part Deux

  
  Read Reid's Blog — Authority: 110
  Thanks to Charlene , we went crabbing this past weekend! Pacifica Pier was closed due to really high waves, so we were back to SF Municipal Pier. I was originally hesitant about this, given our last experience, where we caught 4 crabs in 4 hours . But, lo’ and behold, we had gorgeous weather, diving pelicans, and ...
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• Oh, no -- this building used to be pink!

  
  NOBODY PASSES, darling — Authority: 129
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• Purple Pride

  
  Alapan - San Francisco Street Photography by John Agoncillo — Authority: 113
  Expired Kodachrome 64 at the Pride Parade with the Leica M6. Lacking posting photographs nowadays as I’m a little burnt out from everything. Just the way it is I suppose…..
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• Omar Salazar rides the hills of San Francisco

  
  Doobybrain.com — Authority: 615
  HUF x OMAR SALAZAR x NIKE SB from HUF on Vimeo . This video showing skateboarder Omar Salazar skating in San Francisco was made by Marty Reigel for HUF and Nike SB to promote the HUFxNikeSB Blazer Premium shoe and apparel line. It’s absolutely wild. I was once this good at skateboarding.
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• Brown pelican off the endangered list

  
  Political Blotter — Authority: 570
  This subject is not exactly politics but I found it interesting.President Obama and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger announced today that the brown pelican population has sufficiently recovered and has been removed from the endangered species list.On Sunday, I had the opportunity to photograph brown pelicans as they sat on ...
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• Mike Singletary Tribute Video

  
  FanSided — Authority: 599
  Here’s a little something to get you in the mood for the Bears – Niners game tonight.He may be on the opposing sideline coaching the 49ers, but this is how I’ll remember Mike Singletary:BEAR DOWN!!!
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• Bears vs Niners Preview

  
  FanSided — Authority: 599
  The Bears head to San Francisco to face off with Samurai Mike Singletary and his 49ers.  It’s not looking too good for the Beloved.  The Bears start the 3rd quarter of their season with the deck stacked against them:Coming off a humiliating home loss to an average Cardinals team,heading across country,on a short ...
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• Top Tastes from Foodbuzz Mobile Feast

  
  Food GPS — Authority: 505
  A small army of food bloggers descended on San Francisco for the Foobuzz Blogger Festival from November 6-8. In case you’re unfamiliar with Foodbuzz , it’s a noble network that connects food bloggers and works to get them paid for their efforts. Their inaugural festival featured events and seminars throughout the ...
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• Boston’s Faneuil Hall Is a Finalist for Google Street View Visit—Vote Now, Then Meet Trike Builder Dan Ratner

  
  Xconomy — Authority: 714
  IT , Web , mapping Wade Roush wrote: Being journalists, we here at Xconomy try to refrain from bald political statements or endorsements. We’d never ask you to “vote early and often” for any candidate for office. But this week we can cheerfully recommend that you subvert the democratic process by ...
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• HP to buy 3Com in $2.7 bn deal

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 708
  San Francisco, Nov 12 (DPA) Hewlett Packard has reached a deal to buy network equipment-maker 3Com in a deal worth $2.7 billion, the companies announced Wednesday.The deal will give HP an important foothold in the market for networking equipment and comes as other technology giants like Cisco and Oracle broaden their ...
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• Vince Now Young in Name Only

  
  Back Porch FanHouse — Authority: 171
  by Nancy Gay Filed under: NFL Coaching , NFL Quarterbacks , NFL Analysis SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. -- Did someone know what they were doing with Vince Young in Tennessee? Apparently so. Theres no doubt that Young is a different quarterback as a starter in 2009 than he was in 2007 and during that infamous ...
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• Il Cane Rosso – San Francisco, CA – November 6, 2009

  
  Food GPS — Authority: 505
  Coi chef-owner Daniel Patterson built a national reputation for his cutting-edge 11-course tasting menus, but at Il Cane Rosso, you’d never guess that he ever formed a foam. At both restaurants, he’s supremely committed to utilizing local and seasonal ingredients. He and partner Lauren Kiino enlisted chef Doug ...
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