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  • #thingsweactuallylike

    Where Did the Web Touch You?

    Online artist Casetteboy created this funny/brilliant mashup of experts explaining "the Web." In short, the global computer network is an anti-social creep that "nailed some feces to the door," according actor Stephen Fry, Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales and other digerati. More »
    12/08/09
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  • #exclusive

    The Revolution Will Not Be Tweeted Because Only 0.027% of Iranians Are on Twitter

    Remember the storyline about a new Iranian revolution after the elections this summer? The one fuelled by the internet generation? The one that got the state department to intervene to help Iranians Twitter? Not so much. More »
    11/09/09
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  • #twitterati

    MC Hammer in Demand As Business School Lecturer

    Ben Huh ate spoiled mayonaisse; KFC inspired a foodie; and MC Hammer knows more about social media than some MBA students. The Twitterati displayed questionable taste. More »
    10/22/09
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  • #publicitystunts

    Wake Us When Wolfram Alpha Can Solve an Actual Problem

    British physicist Stephen Wolfram today officially launched his new, massively-hyped search engine, Wolfram Alpha. Now for the inevitable letdown; and for the hard questions more journalists should have been asking weeks ago. More »
    05/18/09
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  • #amazonfail

    Twitter Meets Mass Hysteria

    Now that it appears that last weekend's Amazon-banning gay-books Twitter storm was much ado about nothing, Clay Shirky has an insightful essay, "The Failure of #amazonfail," about why it's hard to let the outrage go. More »
    04/15/09
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    By Clay Shirky
  • #oped

    Cause of Death Determined for Print Media

    Heart disease is the leading cause of death among humans. As Clay Shirky points out in his incisive piece Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable, an inability to adapt is what killed print. Coroner's report follows. More »
    03/14/09
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    By Clay Shirky
  • #literature

    The Internet: Good for Reading

    Victoria Blake told NPR today that she started her own publishing company when she realized she was just wasting her free time reading Gawker. Have trashy websites like ours killed literature? Au contraire, yall! More »
    01/05/09
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  • #meltdowns

    LayoffGossip trades quality for quantity

    11/05/08
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  • #hackers

    Stupid rock band totally pwns Google

    10/10/08
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  • #killyourblog

    Oversharing is over — save it for your book deal

    08/20/08
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