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Shut up twitter
Who's Abandoning Twitter?
Celebrity Twittering seems to be at an all-time high, which means it's time to brace for the inevitable comedown, when the fickle famous give up microblogging forever. Oprah Winfrey, ever the trend setter, is leading the charge.
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By Ryan TateComment by finwar: So I got some followers to my twitter account, protondecay, where I make fun of other types of particles (for... 3 Responses | Other threads
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investigations
Bill Clinton Wants His Domain Names Back
In the late '90s, private investigator Joe Culligan registered presidentbillclinton.com and other Clintonesque domain names as a joke. Now Bill Clinton's lawyer is pursuing legal action to get the website addresses. It's payback, says Culligan.
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Hillary's flack told Bill Gates not to bother "being human"
Mark Penn, the CEO of Burson-Marsteller, will likely never work in politics again. He's in hot water over his advice to Hillary Clinton. A series of memos obtained by The Atlantic show Penn offering Clinton unsavory advice. (For example: highlighting Barack Obama's childhood abroad as a way of suggesting he was too foreign to be president.) But the fallen flack has a promising career as consigliere to tech CEOs, based on his advice to Bill Gates: "Being human is overrated." More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by Shadowlayer: I'm not human, I'm a robot! I run on corn! more » | Other threads
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satire
Bill Clinton updates Facebook profile to say "It's complicated" with Hillary
Minutes after New York Senator Hillary Clinton sent an email to her supporters ending her campaign, President Clinton changed his Facebook profile relationship status from "Married" to "It's Complicated." He also added that he was now looking for "friendship," "dating," and "a relationship." We're guessing Bill Clinton doesn't actually update his own Facebook page and that the changes were more likely a frustrated campaign supporter's way of venting. (Update: Or maybe a satirical blogger's.) Asked by a "reporter" about the change, campaign spokesman Howard Wolfson answered: "What can I tell you? It's complicated."
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Comment by johnnypotatoes: Why in God's name would anyone ever pay any attention whatsoever to the unfunny emissions of Andy Borowitz? more » | Other threads
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Chris Matyszczyk
CNET hires (m)adman to blog about Obama's victory
They'll let just about anyone blog these days, won't they? News.com's latest addition: recovering adman Chris Matyszczyk, who writes under the rubric "Technically Incorrect," and reminds me a bit of Dan Lyons's alter ego, Fake Steve Jobs — except that, having met Matyszczyk briefly, I think this is the real thing, not a put-on person. Matyszczyk's fantasy phone call between Hillary Clinton and Mark Zuckerberg is hilarious: Clinton blames Zuckerberg for her loss to Obama, and then hits the paper billionaire up for a donation. What's really funny: Matyszczyk is outsidery enough not to mention the fact that Zuckerberg's cofounder, Chris Hughes, left the social network early on to run Obama's Web campaign. Zuckerberg's posse really is at fault, and not in a metaphorical Facebook-generation way.
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By Owen ThomasComment by editingwhiz: This guy has to be an adman, for sure. He's not a journalist, or even a quasi-journalist. Posts a self-promoting... more » | Other threads
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politics
Obama leads in the widget race
Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama traded states again last night, but Obama is only a handful of delegates away from securing the Democratic Party's nomination. The latest Web metric — widgets embedded on social-network pages — puts him firmly in the lead against John McCain. If only widgets counted as much as having a Republican running voting-machine maker Diebold. [ReadWriteWeb] (Photo by Steve Jurvetson) -
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Clinton site made Obama-friendly by Finnish hacker
Hillary Clinton campaign site VoteHillary.org is vulnerable to a common exploit known as cross-site scripting (XSS), as demonstrated by Finnish security specialist Harry Sintonen. He says he's not particularly interested in American politics, according to Netcraft, which first reported Sintonen's research. He was just inspired by the attack on sites maintained by the Barack Obama campaign to see if Clinton's were also vulnerable to XSS exploits. This may redefine "political hack." But any hope that the electoral system itself might prove so pliable to technological alteration is too audacious to discuss.
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By Jackson WestComment by CGrant: I'm pretty bi-partisan when it comes to hilary and obama, but I must say she deserved it. I'm not hateful... more » | Other threads
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politics
Clinton's campaign accused of hacking Obama blogs
In the clip embedded below, an Obama supporter demonstrates how "someone hacked into Barack Obama's site" and changed a link into Obama's Community Blogs so that it instead directs users to Hillary Clinton's home page. We're shocked. Obama's Web presence is the product of Facebook cofounder Chris Hughes. Anyone familiar with that platform knows it's entirely resilient to human error or internal corruption. The video demonstrating the hack: More » -
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The Internet has elected Obama president
In the real world, politics are complicated. On the Web, things seem reassuringly simple, though. Take the Democratic campaign: Polls show Barack Obama ahead, but he doesn't have the necessary delegates to force Hillary Clinton to drop out. Web-traffic analyst Matt Pace of Compete.com believes he has the internet traffic stats to prove that Obama is a shoo-in. More »
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Comment by Sabre_Justice: Okay, no more long name.: Obama/Ron Paul '08! more » | Other threads
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politics
HP marketer gives his all for Hillary
Here's a pro-Hillary video from former HP marketing expert Gene Wang. Some have wondered whether it was made by an Obama supporter to make Hillary Clinton look out of touch. Wang told the New York Times he supports Clinton. This explains much about HP's marketing. (Perhaps his bosses realized this: Wang left HP in November.) For comparison, see a video from Obama's grassroots supporters, Scarlett Johansson and Will.i.am., below. More »
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Comment by chuchobaby: this shit is awful. i think paultards could cook up a better jingle! remember, they brought us the blimp... more » | Other threads
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politics
Sci-fi politics: Borg Obama, crying Hillary robot
The Valley, despite the pretensions of some tech bloggers, has no influence on national politics. Candidates swing by, mutter "network neutrality" and other shibboleths, collect buckets of cash, and return to Washington richer but otherwise unchanged. This sad reality explains why we indulge ourselves in fantasies that we're run by aliens or robots. Those are politicians we could actually relate to. That's right: If Ron Paul supporters believed Obama was a Borg drone, they'd be more likely to vote for him. More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by corncat: ... of course, McCain has always been obvious : [metamerist.com] more » | Other threads
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politics
9,388 in Santa Clara disappointed to learn Edwards no longer running
The top ten employers in California congressional District 15 include Cisco, Stanford, HP, Lockheed Martin, IBM, Intel and Google. Here's a hearty congratulations to the 9,388 of you voted for John Edwards. Good job. Too bad he isn't running for president anymore. Absentee voting by mail, a popular option in California, likely explains their votes. Another 8,104 of you voted for a guy — Mike Huckabee — who thinks Noah coaxed a T-Rex on board the Ark. Next time, if you want to participate in civic affairs, why not spend the afternoon editing Wikipedia? Here's how the rest of Santa Clara County voted, according to the Mercury News. More » -
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If Hillary Clinton ran the banks
Hillary Clinton at last night's debate: "I want a moratorium on foreclosure for 90 days and I want to freeze interest rates for 5 years." More »
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Comment by Jordan Golson: @raincoaster: I'm uncertain about my economic security and this scares the bejesus out of me. more » | Other threads
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don't be evil
Goody two-shoes Google bans political "personal attacks"
Google has banned all personal attacks from political ads running on its ad network. "'Crime rates are up under Police Commissioner Gordon 'is okay, but 'Police Commissioner Gordon had an affair' is not,' writes Peter Greenberger on the Google Public Policy blog. Which of course means if Google had its way with the rest of the world, you'd never have heard of John McCain's black baby, Hillary Clinton's cookies or Barack Obama's drug dealing. Boring!
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Comment by liquiddaddy: Insinuate? I pound bush all the time. I wish we could do, "did you mean: Richard Cohen fucks goats." more » | Other threads
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dave winer
Blogger calls for Hillary Clinton's death
Death threats get dished out online routinely, and few take them seriously — the Kathy Sierra row of last spring being the notable exception. But Dave Winer, the blog pioneer, may have chosen the wrong target over the weekend. In a Twitter sent while watching Hillary Clinton on TV, he wrote "Kill Hill Kill Hill." Webheads accustomed to Winer's dyspeptic logorrhea may dismiss such talk as the ranting of an addled mind. But the Secret Service, which protects Clinton as both the spouse of a former president and a presidential candidate herself, may view it with more jaundiced eyes. If agents pay Winer a visit, will he Twitter about that, too?
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By Owen ThomasComment by NikFromNYC: Uh, this person should be uh, like, you know, totally, like arrested and held without Soros to bail her out,... more » | Other threads
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david anderson
Does your VC have a Democrat in his pocket?
Senator Clinton polls higher than Senator Obama in Santa Clara County, 43 percent to 27 percent, a Clinton campaign staffer told the Wall Street Journal. But we know what really counts in Silicon Valley: money. And when it comes to raising cash, Barack Obama's winning over the tech crowd. He raised about $500,000 just last weekend at a breakfast in Atherton. Wondering who was there? Here's a list of known Silicon Valley supporters for each candidate. More » -
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Google users don't know who Barack Obama is
Google, like most other search engines, tries to guess what users are searching for even as the users type their queries. These guesses are partly based on prior user searches, so they can be telling look into the popular conscience. Here, for a query begun "who," Google offers "who is barack obama." Hmm. What do the Google searchers wonder about Hillary? More »
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Comment by j-c: slightly unfair comparision. Interestnigly, typing in Barak as you do Hillary bring up lots of questions about his religion. more » | Other threads
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politics
Kevin Rose "supports" Ron Paul, Barack Obama
Ron Paul, inexplicably, has locked up the geek vote. The quasi-libertarian crackpot has plenty of fans, affectionately known as "Paultards," from San Francisco to the Googleplex. Add to them Digg cofounder Kevin Rose, who listed Paul and Democratic frontrunner Barack Obama as his favorite candidates. (Blogger Will Chen noted the preferences on Rose's Digg profile page.) But I'd ask this: How much is Rose's support really worth? More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by Dweezil: Support of Ron Paul should be justification to revoke said supporters voting rights. Austrian economics is (almost) as stupid as... more » | Other threads
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larry and lucy
Clinton spokesman denies Googler wedding rumor
Phil Singer, a spokesman for Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign, says neither she nor Bill will be at Larry Page and Lucy Southworth's wedding being held today on Necker Island in the British Virgin Islands. That's a shame. Richard Branson's Caribbean getaway is a lot warmer than Iowa, HIllary. And there are worse places to hit people up for campaign donations. Maybe she's just trying to avoid a photo op with the Bushes?
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By Owen ThomasComment by APLSUX: If Bill knew about Neckers and Virgins, I bet he'd be there in a Harlem-based office moment. more » | Other threads
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larry and lucy
President Bush, Clintons to meet at Googler wedding?
We've heard rumors that there will be three presidents attending the Caribbean wedding of Google cofounder Larry Page and his bride-to-be, Lucy Southworth. The Times Online is reporting that Bill and Hillary Clinton are expected to attend, which leaves two presidents unaccounted for. The likeliest candidates: Dubya and his dad. Here's why. More » -
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Digg selects the next president, Hillary not in running
The online news-voting site Digg has added a page tracking the Democratic and Republican candidates for president. Digg's a virtual unknown inside the Beltway, so the page's geek-skewed results aren't a true barometer of candidate popularity. They're more a gimmick by Digg founders Jay Adelson and Kevin Rose to guilt candidates into participating on their site. Predictably, the Internet's unlikely favorites lead: Barack Obama, Dennis Kucinich, and Mike Gravel on the Democratic side, Ron Paul and Mike Huckabee on the Republican side. You can view the candidates' favorite Digg stories — or rather, some anonymous campaign staffers' favorite stories. The lone holdout among candidates with a real shot at the nomination? Hillary Clinton. Her lack of participation shows she understands the true value of Web 2.0 in today's presidential election: none. An image of the current "Digg the President" leaders after the jump. More »
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By Tim FaulknerComment by OrangeAlert: massive web support...cult following...great at money raising...i'll bet a lot of paultards were deantards a few years back. so all we... more » | Other threads
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politics
Web popularity, shockingly, still not real popularity
Long-shot presidential candidate Ron Paul's recent appearance at Google is by far the most popular video of the Candidates@Google video series, a YouTube collection of speakers at the Mountain View Googleplex. His more than 290,000 views blows away Hillary Clinton's with more than 47,000. If the Internet were the Electoral College, Ron Paul would be our next President of the United States by a landslide. Thank God it's not.
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By Tim FaulknerComment by graham_glass: Ron Paul is the only presidential candidate that supports the US Constitution and believes in a limited federal government. And... more » | Other threads
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Add another politician's name to Google's visitor logs. Presidential candidate and YouTube superstar Ron Paul will address Google employees this Friday, following in the footsteps of fellow candidates Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, and John McCain. -
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Hillary Clinton disses the Valley
In elections, some voters matter; some don't. And Hillary Clinton has just told a powerful Silicon Valley constituency — graduates of India's most prestigious technical school — that they just don't rank an in-person visit. Clinton was supposed to give a keynote speech in Santa Clara today at the Indian institute of Technology 2007 Global Alumni Forum, an event sponsored by Google, Yahoo, Cisco, and Microsoft. But earlier this week, she announced that she'd be MIA. What's she doing instead? More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by fatbastard: This is actually good news for New Orleans. They can definitely use the additional Secret Service agents that will accompany... more » | Other threads
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