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  • Nick Carr

    Wagged, sagged, body-bagged: Things we've decided are dead

    By Nick Douglas, 10:30 AM on Thu May 25 2006, 209 views (Edit, to draft, Top, Slurp)

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    Body bag - ValleywagNick Carr, long-time flamebaiter turned linkbaiter, declares Wikipedia dead. (No fair pointing at the very live site!) We can't let Nick be the only one gunning for Steve Gillmor's coroner job. So in the interest of upping our own fake authority, here's Valleywag's table of what's wagged, sagged, and body-bagged. Apologies to Wired — that is, we're so very sorry.

    Wagged Sagged Body-bagged
    Fox Interactive buyouts CNET buyouts AOL buyouts
    "We're in gamma." "We're in beta." "That's not a bug, that's a feature."
    Getting TechCrunched Getting BoingBoinged Getting press
    Kevin Rose Matt Haughey CowboyNeal
    Steve Jobs in Nikes Steve Jobs in New Balance Steve Jobs in sweater vests
    Crowdsourcing Outsourcing Open sourcing

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