112 reasons why retail news is neighborhood news in NW Portland

There is a certain conventional wisdom among journalists about neighborhood news. Such news, the thinking goes, is about your neighbors, your school, your church, your kids’ sports teams. And so it is.

But neighborhood news is also about people’s retail lives.

It’s about where we do our shopping, where we stop for coffee, where … → Read more, view streaming news here.

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Occupy Portland: An explanation in B-flat major

There’s not a whole lot new to say about the Occupy movement that hasn’t already been said. So instead of saying it, we decided to sing it. This song is about the long list of ways they believe the government and corporate America have failed them. The musical genres alternate between folk and rap, … → Read more, view streaming news here.

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Earthquake zingers seen on Nozzl

When the mid-Atlantic quake hit Virgina Tuesday, August 23rd, 2011, the news, of course was rapidly streaming on our site. But so were the witty tweets! Here’s a sampling “as seen on Nozzl Streaming News:”

“I think Chris Christie just jumped into the race.” “US Geological Survey’s budget was cut by some $20 million … → Read more, view streaming news here.

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Getting rained on by the Amazon cloud

It didn’t take long to notice that Nozzl’s normally restless streams were either stopped or non-existent on April 25th, 2011. The reason: We were inadvertently taken down by the repairs Amazon was making in the wake of its massive server cloud failure last week. … → Read more, view streaming news here.

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Nozzl website down Tuesday morning, 4/19

Nozzl was knocked off the Internate this morning by a nasty attack on our hosting service provider, MediaTemple.Net. This was initially seen as a Denial of Service (DOS) attack, and it surely denied service!

MediaTemple techs worked on it for about three hours, and many websites that run from their servers were up and … → Read more, view streaming news here.

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Nozzl's streams offline temporarily

It’s not you or your browser. It’s us.

Close watchers of Nozzl’s news and social-media streams may have noticed two brief outages yesterday [5-April-2011], followed by a continuing outage that began last night. The source of the problem turned out to be a catastrophic failure of our Amazon cloud server, which Amazon was unable … → Read more, view streaming news here.

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Nozzl lands spot in Angel Oregon conference

There may be angels in Nozzl’s future. We’re talking about the kinds of angels who have their feet firmly on the ground: angel investors.

Nozzl Real-Time Technologies Inc., which publishes the online NozzlNews, just got word that we’ve been selected to make a pitch at this year’s Angel Oregon, one of the nation’s premier … → Read more, view streaming news here.

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Twitter is the first draft of journalism

Journalism has always been the first draft of history.

Now Twitter is the first draft of journalism.

The conflicting reports about the mass shootings and attempted assassination of U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords Saturday in Tucson have resulted in a raft of analyses and mea culpas about what went wrong and why. Early reports that … → Read more, view streaming news here.

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Nozzl adds weight-loss & women’s fitness apps

Journey to Weight Loss app

You’re trying to keep that New Year’s resolution to lose weight and stay fit.

You’re going to the gym. You’re eating right. And you’re blogging about your progress.

But you’re worried about keeping up your momentum — and your blog.

We’ve created a couple of apps just for you. For less than the … → Read more, view streaming news here.

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Our apps are showing. Thanks for staring.

Yes, we know your mother told you it was not polite to stare. But honestly, we don’t mind. In fact, we’re gratified.

Since we flipped the switch on the Nozzl website on December 20, visitors have come to this site more than 3,000 times, resulting in nearly 11,000 page views. Those are respectable numbers … → Read more, view streaming news here.

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Nozzl kicks off with football bowl apps

Howdy, bloggers. Nozzl Real-Time Technologies is proud to bring you a new kind of blog tool that not even the big boys have…yet.

We call it Nozzl Real-Time Blogroll. But you can just call it The Nozzl.

Old-fashioned blogrolls are static. They’re just lists of links — sometimes to sites that have been dead … → Read more, view streaming news here.

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