Weekend read: My weekly share on Twitter

Put out those fires yet? Well, hurry up, willya? We've got a weekend to get started over here. There was plenty of smoke and heat on Twitter this week, and my stream yielded a firehose-worth of good reads, ideas and smart stuff. Here's the best of what I thought was hot this week:

• Pimp your landing page & timeline ride: Have you worked on cover art for your Facebook timeline? Here's a fancy technique and how to make it happen. And here's a useful tutorial on rejiggering your Facebook landing page and optimizing it for search engines.
• All radio is local: NPR used geotargeting on FB to drive traffic to a local station. Can you do something similar with a partner organization, local branch or chapter, or store location?
• Kicking in just got serious: Two Kickstarter projects hit $1 million in donations, a new mark. Could yours be next?
• Put that in your purse: How Kate Spade uses Pinterest for marketing is worth a read even if you don't care about lifestyle brands.
• Back to the future: As buyouts continue, the Washington Post recasts its future with an eye on the digital.
• Another ticker: Hmm. Tried this yet? Feed Notifier monitors RSS feeds in real time on your desktop.
• How about my friend here? Facebook is trying out a "suggested guests" feature when you set up an event. Look to the right side of the screen.
• I take a great Pinterest in this case: Brian Reid has these ideas for using Pinterest for health and medicine. It's a recent entry on my board about great ways to use Pinterest.
• Surely they mean yours: Facebook has started to verify popular/celebrity accounts.
• Not just pretty graphics: "The best data visualizations expose something new."

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As usual, you're my best sources of info, so don't hold back on sending your suggestions, ideas and leads. I appreciate your reading--and U.S. readers, enjoy that loooong weekend.