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Top Chef Masters heads into the championship round starting next week,
after a night of firsts, a near perfect score and one of the best
quotes from the show ever. Check out that and more here:

http://www.cbsnews.com//stories/2010/04/29/entertainment/main6443795.shtml

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Top Chef Masters 3 became a showdown in an Irish Kitchen. Get the lowdown

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/04/21/entertainment/main6419734.shtml?tag...

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There's a great ending to the second elimination round, as two
chefs-including one of NYC's best make the cut.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/04/15/entertainment/main6398126.shtml?tag...
for all the lip-smacking good food.

And what a surprise at the judge's table, talk about a comeback.

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http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/04/08/entertainment/main6374245.shtml

(CBS) The Contestants: Goyvind Armstrong; Susan Feniger; Ana Sortun;
Jerry Traunfeld; Jimmy Bradley and Tony Mantuano.

Quick Fire Challenge: The contestants divide into three teams and are
told they are going to Chinatown. The chefs drive to an establishment
that hostess Kelly Choi describes as "serves thousands of people each
day."

They end up at a gas station in Los Angeles' Chinatown, where they
find out they will have to shop for ingredients to prepare a meal for
the pop band The Bravery.

The chefs spent 15 minutes shopping in the gas station convenience
store, and then 45 minutes of prep-time in the Top Chef Masters
kitchen. Chef Tony Mantuano calls this challenge, "Smoke and mirrors
gourmet."

Watching via closed circuit TV, the chefs find out what The Bravery
thinks of their gas station creations: Armstrong and Bradley make a
spicy mac and cheese with sautéed Slim Jims-"mac and cheese is an
exploration in bland, I am impressed with how much flavor they got."
Sortun and Traunfeld make a rice cake-"very original," "this is
something to me that I can get at a gourmet restaurant." Feniger and
Mantuano make a bread pudding-"a lot of flavor," "I wonder if all
these fruits and nuts come from one snack pack."

Feniger and Matuano win the Quickfire (and $5000 for their charities)
for their maple bread pudding.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/04/08/entertainment/main6374245.shtml

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SNO talk in March. Time to optimize for social networks
http://htxt.it/M0sC SEO may be less than half the battle

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A Look at the Future
By esd714
This post is a week or so late, but I think it’s a case of better late
than never-and its my blog so I can make the rules.

I spent a day last week doing my best not to lecture three journalism
classes at my alma-mater Hofstra University. The subject matter was
social media and how it fits into the day-to-day of a modern
journalist.

I was also able to get up onto one of my favorite soap boxes and tell
students that it’s not enough to know the news and how to report or
tell it–but they have to know the industry they are going to work in.

I think its a great time to be in media-because the industry is
changing so quickly. To be a leader though you need to understand the
playing field, know who the decision makers are and not just be on the
wave, but be ahead of the wave.

The good news for the future is-I think most of the kids in the three
sections I spoke in front of got the message.

So when these kids graduate into the industry they’ll know why retrans
is such an important issue, they’ll know who to reach out to and
perhaps more importantly they’ll know how to use the tools available
now and the ones that are emerging to their advantage; both as story
tellers and professionals.

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