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more about #valleywag more comments → Shadowlayer: Seems pincus here has sent a whole bunch of "friends" to spam the place... more » Alaska Miller: It's like telling a city bus to stop only at Burger King instead of McDonald's and expecting everyone to pay extra for free ice cream. more » Monty: What is more interesting than search engines paying for content is that this could ultimately save the news media business. Ignoring the concern to J... more » Magister: What happens when you look for a foreign or local story? I assume the Fox O&Os will be part of the equation, as will their Australian and UK paper... more » sweetpickles: Yes. You'll find the same news at other sites by searching through Google. This isn't only about Murdoch walling off his sites, though. This is about ... more » Hello Mister Walrus: I think this is really audience-specific. I work for a bank, so if I had to choose between Google + no WSJ and some other search engine that is 97% as... more » Gabriel Snyder: And notice in that first search that while News Corp. is saying it can live without Google, it's also buying up ad keywords like "lieberman public opt... more » manchops: but have you tried googling: "Andrea Peyser + sex goddess?" I mean, hello? more » If_I_Had_a_Poodle: Perfect. And if they take even one step in the direction of "You can't quote our stories" they will drive themselves so far into irrelevancy ... more » SanFranLefty: Publisher of our local fish wrap/Sharon Stone's ex piles on Mayor McDreamy and his demands to dictate all press interviews: [www.sfgate.com] more » Aatom: "if people want to enjoy a fundamental baseline of serious news media in this country, they will have to pay for it, somehow." I agree with this, but... more » drunkexpatwriter: But.... unless I'm missing something, while the original links won't turn up on Google, any story of any real interest will be linked to by a host of ... more » marcsiry: This marks the day that "branding" was officially rebranded as "wanking." more » Shadowlayer: First one to send me a book with his/her tweet farts gets a bullet between the eyes... Kidding, you'll get a golf ball (NRA took my gun, said I was "... more » Shadowlayer: BTW, Chow if you're reading this, your book is on teh torrentz now more » -
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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.
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#politics
Carly Fiorina's Iran Problem
It is notoriously difficult for business executives to jump into politics. California Senate hopeful Carly Fiorina's Iranian connection provides a textbook illustration of why. More » -
#flackery
'It's Hot in Iran' Is Latest Tech PR Gimmick
If the Iran protests put Twitter at the top of America's diplomatic agenda, just imagine what they could do for your company! Play your cards right, you might be able to exploit the situation as well as, say, Fring. More » -
#politics
Democrats Are Like Iranian Thugs, Republican Rep Explains
Rep. Pete Hoekstra (R, Michigan) wanted to clarify his controversial tweet comparing Republican oil-mongers to Iranian democracy activists. So he did: The only way they're the same is that they both battle repressive, freedom-hating regimes. More » -
#shutuptwitter
Why There's No Twitter Revolution in Iran
A contrarian take on the much-discussed situation in Iran, via Business Week: While Twitter has been a great for international publicity, most activists are just organizing via word of mouth or SMS, like backward Web 1.0 people. More » -
#twits
GOP House Members Know Exactly What It's Like to be An Iranian Freedom Fighter
Who let Republicans use the Twitter? Who told them that was ok? Michael Steele? "Iranian twitter activity similar to what we did in House last year when Republicans were shut down in the House," Representative Pete Hoekstra says. More » -
#mediameltdowns
CNN Doesn't Like Talking About Internal Twitter Shakeup
Rick Sanchez made news defending CNN's Iran coverage against a Twitter mob on the air Monday. But it turned out he had a less flattering story to tell behind the scenes. More » -
#trendwatch
Server Trouble? Blame Iran
Is your company's Web server hosed again? Give your beleaguered sysadmins and programmers a break and blame hackers. Preferably Iranian hackers. It's all the rage! Just ask The Atlantic and Boing Boing. More » -
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State Department to Twitter: No Fail Whale for Iran
Yesterday, Twitter announced it would be going offline for about an hour for scheduled maintenance. Users protested, noting the microblogging service's importance to Iranian activists, but Twitter said its hands were tied. It finally relented — under federal pressure. More » -
#hacks
Andrew Sullivan Claims His Blog Is Under Attack
Andrew Sullivan, who has been engaged in tireless online coverage of the events in Iran, says he is under a "digital attack," presumably from pro-Ahmedinejad forces in Iran or elsewhere. More »
