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A recent commenter, Mike L., asked what I meant by "technologies have emerged that may be able to serve you as well as this wire service has." I was making reference to how robust RSS services have become (including such tools as Flock), with regard to personalization. When we launched, having a customized home page with news feeds tuned to your particular interests wasn't widely available. It is now. RSS did not have the popularity that it does today. That's not to say that it would be simple to replicate the effort that we took to produce TP Wire Service each day. Each story was hand picked from a wide variety of sources for people who share Tom's interests. There are a few sites that gather information in one place, such as Alltop or Digg. You may want to check them out, and might find other valuable resources as a result. Again, thanks so much for reading. It was our pleasure.

Posted by Shelley Dolley at February 2, 2009 4:06 PM

Thank you for responding, Shelley. TP Wire Service has been a genuine and continuing stimulus package for me. I appreciate everyone's efforts.

Posted by Mike L. at February 2, 2009 5:39 PM

Shelley - maybe time for a total TPC site revamp.

Take it down to a "tpc.org" level - so the look & feel is a simple Google like website - it becomes "TP adequate&austere! "Recession, we don't need no stinkin' recession!"

With a photo of Tom freshly torn apart by brambles after a day of tractor work on the farm!

PS - I vote for Steve Yastrow's contrarion spin on Super Bowl ads. Why didn't $9M in cute Clydesdale ads win my beer drinking heart rather than make me want to stampede those 'dales through the Capitol building? :>)

Posted by Contraire at February 2, 2009 7:42 PM

The Wounded Breakfast

A huge shoe mounts up from the horizon, squealing and grinding forward on small wheels, even as a man sitting to breakfast on his veranda is suddenly engulfed in a great shadow, almost the size of the night . . .
He looks up and sees a huge shoe ponderously mounting out of the earth.
Up in the unlaced ankle-part an old woman stands at a helm behind the great tongue curled forward; the thick laces dragging like ships' rope on the ground as the huge thing squeals and grinds forward; children everywhere, they look from the shoelace holes, they crowd about the old woman, even as she pilots this huge shoe over the earth . . .

Soon the huge shoe is descending the opposite horizon, a monstrous snail squealing and grinding into the earth . . .

The man turns to his breakfast again, but sees it's been wounded, the yolk of one of his eggs is bleeding . . .

Posted by russel edson at February 2, 2009 8:40 PM

Will miss you, TP Wire Service!

Jay, from Bangalore

Posted by Jayakumar Hariharan at February 3, 2009 12:47 AM

TP WireService was one of the first things I would check when I start my work. I would miss TPW badly. The suggested headlines are always wonderful and well selected.

Vijay, Bangalore

Posted by Vijay at February 3, 2009 2:28 AM

Well done and thanks for a great service. I am at TED reading this so the idea of change and adaption is on my mind. I suppose the issue is using the new adaptive technology. I will miss the TP Wire Service.

Posted by James Piecowye at February 3, 2009 6:43 AM

Thanks for your kind words, Jay, Vijay, and James!

Posted by Shelley Dolley at February 3, 2009 8:53 AM

We'll all miss tpwireservice. I loved going there to find the Tomesque news, rather than the TV news--looping through the same stories all day long. I could count on it for quirky stuff (like jello models of cities!) and technological stuff that forced me into the future, and business stuff that was especially focused on small business, entrepreneurs, and branding your business and yourself. I don't know anyplace else you can find those topics in one spot.

Note: We're working on keeping Shelley with us, though the wire service is gone.

By the way, did you see "I LEGO N.Y." at NYT.com today?
http://niemann.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/02/02/i-lego-ny/

Posted by cathy mosca at February 3, 2009 2:17 PM

Heh Shelley...as if you are not busy enough already, ever thought about starting a subscription based clipping service? I counted on you to do a lot of my "sifting". Just not enough time in the day to read everything that I would like to.

Posted by Mike Neiss at February 6, 2009 7:12 PM

Mike (and any others):

I am interested in maintaining some service like TPWire.

Posted by Stephen Garner at February 6, 2009 10:33 PM

Thank you, Shelly! Loved the "I LEGO N.Y." Creative!

Posted by Judith Ellis at February 7, 2009 6:10 AM

That had crossed my mind, Mike. I'll give it further consideration. Thanks!

Posted by Shelley Dolley at February 7, 2009 10:55 AM