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    Shadowlayer: 500M for a "company" nobody outside SF uses or even knows about... Thats it, google just went fucking retarded. more »
    Pope John Peeps II: Tech people seem to believe that the entire digital world is a brand new realm, whose laws and fiats they can cavalierly disregard, or invent to their... more »
    BowlingForDollars: This may sound lame, but I have Creative Commons on all of my material on Facebook. If they make it available in search, isn't that exploiting my "wor... more »
    CumaeanSibyl: A lot of times, when something that awful happens, it doesn't sink in all at once. You're numb, and your first instinct is to keep doing the things yo... more »
    Magister: Re: Penelope Trunk I'm not even bothering to fake the lie - The computer I'll be buying this Christmas will be for me, so that the kids can have the ... more »
    MyNameIsChris: Re: Avatar Is twittering reviews on films you didn't see the new blogging reviews about films you haven't seen? more »
    econdave: "Gilfriend"? She's a fish? more »
    AndPreciousLittleofThat: "Nominally married?" Is that like a barely civil union? more »
    fuzzymuffins: martha, how much for the matching set of housekeepers? will they be available in chartreuse and linen? more »
    SidAndFinancy: Thank goodness for that Gateway settlement; I need to sell my own personal information to feed my Phonics jones. more »
    sfBirdie: Whacky Patty (Overstock ceo Patrick Byrne) has been using this info to create a list of "enemies" (via DeepCapture). That is, anyone who has been crit... more »
    Uncle_Billy_Slumming: How are they making that money exactly? From selling user info to advertisers? It sure ain't from the little ads they have on the site itself. more »
    lobstr: These type-A mothers obsessed with blogging about every damn thing their kids-with-dumb-names do seem to be in overabundance now, I'm surprised this d... more »
    econdave: Will Google exacerbate or correct the local review site's worst tendencies, which have brought extortion allegations, porny bacchanals and physical vi... more »
    Tart of Darkness: I think the greatest thing about social networking media aimed at use by the young is that anyone can be an old biddie regardless of their age and lif... more »
  • #deadtrees

    Twitter May Find News Profits That Eluded Publishers

    Newspaper publishers have long imagined their journalism filled Google's results and fueled its profits. But Twitter is building a popular, potentially profitable news search engine from mostly amateur content. More »
  • #thelongtail

    Julia Allison Is Chris Anderson's Tail Tonight

    Wired editor Chris Anderson tonight came face-to-face with the "Long Tail," his oft-cited metaphor for low-grade internet fame, via an encounter after the National Magazine Awards with fameball Julia Allison. Star Editor-At-Large Allison worked Anderson hard, no doubt as part of her relentless effort to take the "proto" out of her protocelebrity — to be more than tail, basically. She reports on her blog that she chatted Anderson up for 20 minutes and ended up "bopping him enthusiastically." Wait, Julia. Didn't you just tell the Times you were going to stop using your "pink-encased loaded weapon" this way?? Anyway, alternate photo captions for the picture above are totally welcome after the jump. Even if you're drunk. Especially if you're drunk. [Julia Allison: 1, 2, 3, 4]
  • #clips

    Martha Stewart kills Blueprint, blames the blogs