July 2009
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Twitter Creator On Iran: 'I Never Intended For... →
When I heard how Iranians were using my beloved creation for their own means—such as organizing a political movement and informing the outside world of the actions of a repressive regime—I couldn’t believe they’d ruined something so beautiful, simple, and absolutely pointless.” Dorsey said he is already working on a new website that will be so mind-numbingly useless that...
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Advertising signs that con you
Into thinking you’re the one
That can do...
– Bob Dylan
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U.S. Steps Gingerly Into Tumult in Iran →
The request, made to Twitter’s co-founder, Jack Dorsey, is yet another new-media milestone: the recognition by the United States government that an Internet blogging service that did not exist four years ago has the potential to change history in an ancient Islamic country.
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Favorite part is interview with Rick Berke, Assistant Managing Editor (~3min)
“Why is aged news better than real news?”
Ahh, the realtime web has indeed permeated our culture.
(via john, soupsoup,inothernews)
The Daily Show visits, skewers the New York Times. Hilarity ensues.
(via Gawker)
[Pointing to newspaper] ”Name one thing in here that happened today!”
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Search is too important to leave to one company –... →
“search engines accumulate near-complete indexes of our interests, our loves, our hopes and aspirations. Our relationship with them is as intimate as our relationships with our lovers, our confessors, our therapists.
What’s more, the way that search engines determine the ranking and relevance of any given website has become more critical than the editorial berth at the New York Times...
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