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The Twitterati Give Their Divorce Lawyer a Porn Name
The problem with Twitterati isn't so much oversharing as undercaring. Laurel Touby's apartment woes, Lockhart Steele's porn name, and Penelope Trunk's divorce bill are as good as the media elite's tweets get! More »
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twitterati
The Twitterati Pop a Pill for Demyelinating Immunoglobulin
It's a horrible disease that threatens everyone's well-being! No, not the swine flu, silly — we're talking Twitter. Alan Meckler, Jon Fine, and Patrick Gavin were among today's victims: More » -
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The Twitterati Apologize for Taking Steroids Offshore
New York has a fancy matrix graphic in which it pretends to identify which Twitterers are insipid or insightful. Oh, New York: Even Twitter's insights are insipid. Today's banalities: More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by The Boulevard of Broken Queens: OK regarding the previous mr T post FOR WHICH THERE IS NO COMMENTS SECTION? "Mr. T -- the only living person... more » | Other threads
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twitterati
Bearded Twitterati Look Ugly Playing Baseball
One BusinessWeek scribe fussed over his beard, an Ars Technica blogger griped over her ride, and an ABC News reporter got dissed in makeup! The Twitterati's complaints were endless today: More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by propertius: Does that robenfarzad keep his beard in a box and mail it to people from time to time? more » | Other threads
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flackery
How Apple's Pet Reporter Stole His Talking Points
Jim Goldman, the shameless Apple parrot and CNBC correspondent, did his best for the computer company in an on-air price comparison the other day. But he had to lift his argument wholesale. More »
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By Ryan TateComment by badasscat: Wait, what?? Macs do not come with anti-virus, Photoshop, *or* a Geek squad visit. And wtf is "multimedia software"? ... 3 Responses | Other threads
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twitterati
The Twitterati Get Run Over by a Google Street View Car
No one can escape Google's roving eyes — not even the Twitterati! Pierre Omidyar, Ryan Block, John Byrne, and others used Twitter to rid themselves of whatever scraps of private dignity remained: More » -
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The Twitterati Go For "Dong"
If you have no idea what people on Twitter are talking about, fear not. They have no idea what they're talking about, either. The latest mutterings from Chris Anderson, John Byrne, and other online twits: More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by Banjo-Sea Kitten: "...@Brian Faughnan and for lunch we had Hate Sandwiches topped off with Lies Ala Mode." I'm awesome, I know... michellemalkin 1 Responses | Other threads
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twitterati
Sarah Palin Lets the Twitterati Sleep in the Same Room
Twitter, the ideal medium for feigning emotion! Bonnie Fuller pretended to be shocked, Erick Schonfeld and Kara Swisher pretended to fight, and Sasha Frere-Jones pretended to function. Today's real fake tweets: More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by rustneversleeps: Bonnie is shocked that Sarah Palin is more of a douche than we thought. Considering Palin's public stance on sex... more » | Other threads
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twitterati
Facebook's Redesign Drives Twitterati to Drink
Who knew New Yorker writers used Facebook enough to hate its new look, as Susan Orlean does? In other trivia, Tricia Romano got sauced, Olivier Knox developed a crush, and Jon Fine revealed his ignorance: More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by Kari's Favorite Mark: Is Susan still doing it with that orchid hunter? 7 Responses | Other threads
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twitterati
Twitter Spits on Cold Racists
The Twitterati did not have a good day. Professional web personality Amanda Congdon hates racists, crackpot visionary Jeff Jarvis still hates the media, but TechCrunch editor Michael Arrington is hated most of all! More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by Shamoononon, Vampire Grater - Now SWF: Also, is it Los Angeles or Louisiana that is full of racists? 3 Responses | Other threads
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sarah lacy
Valleywag woes won't stop SF journalist from talking about herself
"I always laugh when people talk about how 'self-promotional' I am," blogs vaguely-connected-to-BusinessWeek writer Sarah Lacy in a 902-word post, "given that for ten years of my career you never knew a thing about me other than my byline." Lacy says that Valleywag was more interesting when editor-owner Nick Denton wrote it. We think she's onto an interesting pattern: Sarah Lacy was more interesting when Nick Denton wrote about her, too. -
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Microsoft looks for its own Sarah Lacy
If you can't hire a star, why not one of her best girlfriends? We hear Microsoft has poached BusinessWeek reporter Catherine Holahan for a new online-video project — MSN's answer to Yahoo Finance's Tech Ticker stocks show, which features Sarah Lacy, Holahan's former colleague at BusinessWeek and a close friend. (The two were rarely apart when they attended the SXSW conference where Lacy infamously interviewed Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg.) Lacy's known for her va-va-voom Diane Von Furstenberg wardrobe on Tech Ticker. But from the looks of some of her BusinessWeek videos, Holahan prefers a more informal look. Honestly, Catherine: Was a tank top the best look to go for, even when talking about as light a subject as Web widgets?
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By Owen ThomasComment by Moonshine Mike: She looks like that girl from the old apple ads that was baked out of her mind. 1 Responses | Other threads
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media
BusinessWeek's new online strategy: search-engine spam
BusinessWeek has tried it all — comments, blogs, podcasts. But with its latest online strategy, it's really giving up on the idea of serving up quality content. Instead, its new site, Business Exchange, will specialize in gaming Google. Sort through the gobbledygook about "aggregation" and "verticals" and "user-generated content," and you arrive at this vision for the site: More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by Hello_Newman: They are talking like it's all that easy to do. You need unique content, a domain that's more than 2... more » | Other threads
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social networks
4 ways Facebook helped Sarah Lacy's career
Sarah Lacy, the BusinessWeek.com columnist whose pearl necklaces and resistance to insults I've always admired, explains to U.S. News & World Report how to use Facebook to "fire up your career." Yet she graciously avoids bragging about how she used Facebook to catapult herself to stardom. Lacy's personal assistant is just getting started on the job, so we thought we'd help out: More »
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businessweek
Mainstream media rushes to fill Internet content shortage
BusinessWeek sent us a press release touting the launch of their 25th blog. Quick, name the other twenty-four!
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By Paul BoutinComment by raincoaster: Who gives a rat's ass about that. Are they HIRING? more » | Other threads
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second life
BusinessWeek Still Wants You In A Second Life Workplace
Has Second Life, the weird, clunky virtual world, ever been good for anything except strange computer sex and time-wasting? For about a year there, you couldn't pick up a magazine without seeing 2L touted as the next big thing for business. For business! Yes, why wouldn't an imaginary land packed with flying monsters and huge selections of virtual penises become corporate America's preferred communications medium? Christ. Lots of the hype was the fault of BusinessWeek, which bought into it with wide-eyed enthusiasm. And the magazine is still trying to get your employer to drag you off to a fantasy computer island for fun team-building exercises: More »
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leaks
Who's going to TechTalk Menorca, the Balearic boondoggle?
Martin Varsavsky, the founder of Wi-Fi startup Fon, has concocted another excuse for Web 2.0's jet set to rack up frequent-flier miles and buy carbon offsets: It's called Menorca TechTalk, held on Varsavsky's ranch on the Mediterranean island this weekend. The website is password-protected, but Valleywag got a list of who's going. It's a curious mix of professional conference attendees, like Rapleaf's Auren Hoffman, Loïc Le Meur of Seesmic, TechCrunch's Michael Arrington, and David Sifry of Technorati, mixed in with a few people who have day jobs. There are even Googlers on the list — and when have you known those lot to leave the protective bubble of Mountain View? Oddly, Jimmy Wales did not seem to make the cut, though his New York patroness, Louise Blouin MacBain, is listed. In the comments, sort the TechTalkers into your preferred categories. More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by sggrf: is this a joke? any list that michael arrington, with his tiny blog, as the most successful makes me very... more » | Other threads
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great moments in journalism
4 things BusinessWeek won't tell you about its under-30 entrepreneurs
The problem with lists like BusinessWeek's collection of 13 under-30 entrepreneurs: Inevitably, in an effort to fill a demographic quota, editors scrape the bottom of the barrel. And presenting a balanced picture of these business novices cuts against the goal of serving up fresh faces. (Whether they're supposed to make BusinessWeek's 50something readers feel either young again or even older, I'm not quite sure.) Here are some things that BusinessWeek would just as soon you not know about members of its boy band: More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by BobDope: @OwenThomas also he didn't say Dropbox enough. Two times? C'mon! more » | Other threads
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videogames
BusinessWeek releases "Web-based" games that download to your computer
With great fanfare, BusinessWeek released a compilation of twenty "free, independently developed Web-based games" on its website today. "Casual games," free games that are easy to play and addictive (think Tetris), are big business. Nickelodeon recently announced it was developing 600 games for its websites. Why is BusinessWeek playing tastemaker in this market, though, under the guise of praising the outlandishly simplistic videogames for their "design"? More »
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great moments in journalism
The Web comic BusinessWeek won't show you
BusinessWeek reporter Catherine Holahan dropped in on BitStrips, a Web-comics startup showing off its wares at SXSW. (Really, who goes to the SXSW trade-show booths?) In Holahan's blog post on the subject, she faithfully transcribed BitStrips founder Ba's thoughts on why he created a website that automates the production of cartoons which look like they were drawn by 5th-grade students. But oddly, she didn't hit on something far more topical: How Ba himself attacked her colleague Sarah Lacy for her keynote interview with Mark Zuckerberg in an "editor's pick." That comic strip, which I'm betting you won't see on BusinessWeek.com anytime soon: More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by Tottie72: @Owen: Actually, I was paying attention to the discussion. Is there a need to be so rude? My objection is to... more » | Other threads
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trendsquatting
Why TED Sucks
TED is the Bono of conferences. (Except Bono wasn't even on this year's guest list.) The Technology Entertainment Design conference is so bold-name, so visionary that you have to like it, which is why you can so easily hate it. But in 2006, the conference awarded its annual $100,000 prize to a man named Larry Brilliant who's heading up Google's non-profit arm, and how do you top that? This year, B-list tech press have rejected the conference they were never invited to. But they really do have a point: More »
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By Nick DouglasComment by meh_alert: Counterpoint: Larry Brilliant = actually brilliant. Michael Arrington = colossal douche. more » | Other threads
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nerdfight
Slide's funding brings out reporters' knives
Scoops are important to journalists. But do readers care? Some writers persist in thinking so. I can't remember ever seeing such backbiting over a humdrum funding announcement: Kara Swisher of AllThingsD scooped everyone last Friday with a rumor that Slide, Max Levchin's Web widget maker, was raising a big funding round. Sarah Lacy of BusinessWeek had more details of the $50 million round in an already-written column published to the Web after Swisher's post. Brad Stone of the New York Times weighed in that afternoon. And that's when the knives came out. More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by eze: i wouldn't count slide out so soon. nobody knows how much slide's widget/application empire is worth, because nothing like this... more » | Other threads
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conflicts of interest
Old media attempts to break up Larry and Lucy
BusinessWeek is trying to call a halt to Larry and Lucy's wedding! We get that Google is killing your print-ad sales. We get that being dependent on Web searches for, say, half of your traffic or whatever scares the bejeezus out of you. But really, mainstream media, this is a low blow — trying to put a pause on marital bliss with a conveniently planted scare story on billionaire prenups? More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by Moe: i know, i know, but wow they are attractive for internet ppl! more » | Other threads
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media
We do TOO have a lot of traffic, says BusinessWeek
In the category of "the best defense is a good offense": The editors at BusinessWeek are not interested in anyone's analysis of why their website's traffic lags Forbes.com and Fortune.com—even when it says they're not to blame. Silicon Alley Insider's Peter Kafka tried to give them a break, yesterday, saying that a 24/7wallstreet.com report blaming their crappy numbers on crappy content was faulty analysis; they were actually the victims of poor distribution. Fortune.com, for example, benefits from all the traffic at CNMoney.com, while BusinessWeek.com stands alone on the web. Yet editor-in-chief John Byrne responded by saying that the ComScore numbers were completely wrong. Yes, they probably understated the case, but they weren't completely out of the ballpark, even according to Kafka. So the question remains: why DO they lag so far behind the other financial sites? I'd pick poor distribution. It's a lot easier to fix. -
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BusinessWeek goes off its (RSS) feed
At McGraw-Hill's business newsweekly, someone decided, apparently, to do some late-summer database cleaning. BusinessWeek accidentally updating its RSS feed with some really thrilling stories. Headlines include: "More news today than ever," "Headline bla bla," and "just another headline that we need to fill in." Subheads — known in the news business as "decks" — also suffered: "Deck bla Deck bla Deck bla," "But this time we are testing FedEx campaign handling," and "testing the pp9 ad."
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By Nick DentonComment by joeduck: Nick - I think sac (above) really should be writing for you. more » | Other threads
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amazon
BW Faces Amazon in Softball Season Opener
Valleywag contributor Theo DP shreds BusinessWeek's typically gushy cover story on Amazon and founder Jeff Bezos. More »
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By Nick DouglasComment by tokemak: When they emblazon the word "RISKY" over your left lung in a cover story, it's not a softball piece. more » | Other threads
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Crazy Eyes Entrepreneurah
When perusing BusinessWeek's "America's Best Young Entrepreneurs," you will find no Martin Smithers. However, you will encounter 25-year-old Noah Glass, who started GoMoBo, a company allowing you to place restaurant takeout orders via cellphone. That's all well and good, but just what is this guy on? He looks as though he emerged from his morning buttermilk bath, put on a scratchy new suit, popped out on his roof terrace, and unexpectedly beheld a stretch buffet of hot, willing poontang laid out and waiting. "Upsurge in business" indeed. More »
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By Chris MohneyComment by Stella Kevlar: I went to school with him too. He sang a cappella (is that not obvious from that face?) more » | Other threads
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google
Business Week's Turn to Blow Smoke
Business Week has pulled a NYT and does a calorie-free article on Google. Headline: How Google's Garden Grows. Makes you want a chop a tree down, don't it? The cell phone with faked google screen has nothing to do with the article, CNN.com must be handling BW's graphics now. More » -
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BusinessWeek: Make up your damn mind
A selection of BusinessWeek headlines from the last 12 months: More »
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By Nick DouglasComment by ray johnson: Ah, question marks in journalism: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBcIDX06FTs more » | Other threads
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sarah lacy
Second scoop: More on the book that "$60 million" bought
As the Big Lebowski says, new shit has come to light. Sarah Lacy, who co-wrote the BusinessWeek cover story "How this kid made $60 million in 18 months" (about Digg founder Kevin Rose, who now jokes constantly with friends and Digg users about the $60 million he doesn't have), will leave the magazine for a year to work on her book about Web 2.0, she said in an e-mail. More » -
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Scoop: BusinessWeek bubble blower gets book deal
Call it "How this BusinessWeek writer made $500k with one bubble" — Sarah Lacy (pictured right), co-writer of the BusinessWeek cover story that pumped up boys of the bubble and gave Digg founder Kevin Rose a made-up valuation of $60 million, scored a lucrative book deal on the same subject. More »
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By Nick DouglasComment by ResearchZilla: wow, a book about web 2.0...just in time for the onslaught of pebble acquisitions and built-for-google startup stories...absolute rubbish...like a... more » | Other threads
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yelp
The Inside Yelp
Remember the fuss over BusinessWeek's cover story, "Valley Boys," a few weeks back? I know, we forgot about it too. But a few alert readers pointed out that feature writer Sarah Lacy has a little undisclosed connection to the story. More »
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By Nick DouglasComment by Nick Douglas: Turns out Lacy hangs with Max Levchin of Slide too. And her BusinessWeek co-author Jessi Hempel is in the photo... more » | Other threads
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youtube
Remainders: YouTube still doomed
- Tech blog GigaOM explains why Fox Interactive won't buy YouTube. For why no one else will, see this Valleywag list. [GigaOM]
- Viacom doesn't need YouTube either, thanks to a sweet distribution deal they just cut with Google Video. With this deal, other sites can embed shows from MTV, Comedy Central, and such; the embedded vids carry ads, and Viacom and Google split the revenue. In other words, everything New Media is Old Media again. [International Herald Tribune]
- Google is paying $900 million to Fox Interactive if all goes right with its plan to power the search on several Fox sites — most importantly, MySpace. [Battelle's Search Blog]
- The San Jose Mercury News discovers, two months after the fact, that blogger Robert Scoble left Microsoft. Call it the "Late Edition." [Mercury News]
- Did BusinessWeek backpedal by editing the print version of its "Digg is worth $200 million" story after bloggers tore apart the online version? Or did the magazine always plan tell online readers one thing and print readers another? [Techdirt]
- Our big sister Gawker, exploiting the convergence of media and tech to totally step on our turf, reports that tech-media vet Alan Patricof dumped $5 million on the Huffington Post. (Disclosure: Founder Arianna Huffington is Gawker publisher Nick Denton's honorary girlfriend, judging by their party photos. I have a writer's account at the Huffington Post that I never bothered using. Patricof writes for the Huffington Post. One of Patricof's older investments was a startup run by Michael Wolff, who called Patricoff a crank in his book Burn Rate.) [Gawker 1, Gawker 2]
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By Nick DouglasComment by ResearchZilla: ..and michael kramer, former cfo of apple's retail division, starts his new job as cfo of flabberzombie and bitch tomorrow,... more » | Other threads
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businessweek
Everyone Knows Numbers On The Cover Move Magazines
Our tech industry expert over at Valleywag noted something interesting about BusinessWeek's recent cover story on Digg.com's Kevin Rose: The piece was "originally titled 'Wealth Punks,'... The magazine also considered the bland 'Geeks 2.0' for the cover before settling on 'How this kid made $60 million in 18 months.'" More »
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By abalk2Comment by Nick Douglas: Sure, hog our new Photoshopper, see if I care. more » | Other threads
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businessweek
Emergency evening post: Blogger publishes rejected BusinessWeek cover
The blog "Web 2.0" says it found the alternate cover to the current issue of BusinessWeek — a cover that's less, you know, wildly speculative, but so much more boring. Looks real, because who would bother Photoshopping this? More »
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By Nick DouglasComment by Oh No I Di'n't.: Regardless of the photo, I'd still like to meet Kevin Rose so I could poke him in the stomach and... more » | Other threads
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businessweek
Why BusinessWeek said Kevin Rose is worth $60 million
The original title for BusinessWeek's cover story on Kevin Rose was originally titled "Wealth Punks," Valleywag has learned. The magazine also considered the bland "Geeks 2.0" for the cover before settling on "How this kid made $60 million in 18 months." More »
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By Nick DouglasComment by BarelyFitz: I'm glad at least they put a gradient behind the photo... it wouldn't be Web 2.0 without a gradient. more » | Other threads
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kevin rose
Kevin Rose explains the BusinessWeek cover photo
Amid all the more serious criticism of BusinessWeek's story about Kevin Rose, everyone forgot to ask: Why did the magazine run such a dorky photo of the Digg founder? Well, he told me. More »
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