" a veritable mountain of evidence indicates that when it comes to Wall Street, the justice system not only sucks at punishing financial criminals, it has actually evolved into a highly effective mechanism for protecting financial criminals. "

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"Not only have ALL the 1-star reviews of Dianetics been removed, now amazon.com has erased all the discussion boards ABOUT that fact." Also, evidently Amazon considers critique of research method to be an attack on the author.

"About $19.5 billion is what Mitt Romney's private equity firm, Bain Capital, and Thomas H. Lee Partners have agreed to pay in a leveraged buyout agreement with Clear Channel Communications, the largest radio station owner in the country."

"[Anne] Wojcicki is married to Sergey Brin, Google's billionaire co-founder. Her firm, which was founded last year, received $3.9m of investment from Google... The venture is based in Mountain View, the same Silicon Valley town as Google."

"Have a period? Save your cells?? Your Menstrual Stem Cells???? What the FUCK? I checked the archive, and I have NO IDEA what blog post this might apply to."

"I'm giving up on google adsense. I've removed the ads I had posted and I will likely cancel my whole account. ... The last straw came last night when I saw an ad up about menstrual stem cells."

"Edelman has acquired the Silicon Valley PR company A&R Partners... many of the company's clients are already blogging. Edelman leadership appears focused on bringing corporate communications into the new world of social media"

"PR 2.0 firm Edelman Inc. has announced that it will fund the creation of localized versions of Technorati in German, Korean, Italian, French and Chinese."

"The wrong way, he said, is to create fake blogs (or "flogs") to create the illusion of positive sentiment. That was the approach Wal-Mart took with Edelman Public Relations last year. Edelman set up blogs ..."

"It will result not in the infotopia that the prophets conjure up but in one in a long series of new information ecologies, all of them challenging, in which readers, writers, and producers of text have learned to survive."

"Eric Schmidt, Google’s chief executive, said gathering more personal data was a key way for Google to expand and the company believes that is the logical extension of its stated mission to organise the world’s information."

" transition to what one successful private-equity-backed executive calls the "comforting and brutal calculus" of such financing:"There is equity. There is debt. There is cash flow. There is interest. There is growth. There is value. That's the world." "

"Nigel Gilbert, a professor heading a Royal Academy of Engineering study into surveillance, said people would be able to sit down and type into Google "what was a particular individual doing at 2.30 yesterday and would get an answer"."

"At the first Internet Governance Forum in Athens, starting tomorrow, the firm will insist its presence in China does more good than harm by getting more information to more people."

"So the question is not whether Google will always do the right thing—it hasn’t, and it won’t. It’s whether Google, with its insatiable thirst for your personal data, has become the greatest threat to privacy ever known,"

"Advertisers are harnessing technology that targets and follows Internet users on their journeys through cyberspace, collecting data and tracking behavior."

"with the added benefit of having my personal correspondence, my friends, family and contacts, my reading lists, my schedule, my location, and my search history all stored under one roof for easy data mining and subpoena! How, er, convenient."