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Blogging About Blogging — The Brooks Review
Earlier today I linked to the Curator’s Code crap — actually I linked to The Loop’s take on it because I agree with Dalrymple:How about just stop stealing other people’s…
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11 weeks ago
The Slippery Slope of the Rush Limbaugh Boycott
Rush Limbaugh has been losing advertisers at a ferocious clip ever since his slut/prostitute comments regarding Sandra Fluke, and ThinkProgress reports today that the exodus has now become a…
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11 weeks ago
The $110 Effect: What Higher Gas Prices Could Really Do to the Economy
The relationship between high gas prices, consumer spending, business investment and Federal Reserve policy is more complicated than most people give it credit forReutersRising oil and gasoline…
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11 weeks ago
Austin, We Have a Problem
Earlier this summer, I went for a swim at Barton Springs, a freshwater pool that lies at the geographical and spiritual center of Austin. Under an oak tree, I found Stuart Stevens of the Bush…
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11 weeks ago
I’m not a “curator”
Curator’s Code is an attempt to codify and standardize “via” links and attribution from link blogs and aggregators with two new symbols: ᔥ means “via” ↬…
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11 weeks ago
David Carr and the Curator's Code
The ease with which folks are able to blog, reblog, and otherwise reproduce (as well as remix) other people’s work is definitely among the revolutionary powers of the internet — at the…
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11 weeks ago
Google’s Quest to Build a Better Boss
IN early 2009, statisticians inside the Googleplex here embarked on a plan code-named Project Oxygen. Their mission was to devise something far more important to the future of Google Inc. than…
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11 weeks ago
The Siege of September 13
Like most of the American staff, Jayne Howell rarely went outside the walls of the Kabul embassy. Beyond the blast barriers and fences of green anti-sniper netting was a city where "official…
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11 weeks ago
Why the $399 iPad 2 is the most important announcement Apple made yesterday
Yesterday, Apple touted a tablet that is going to be a huge part of its strategy for the year ahead, and will likely continue to crush competitors under the weight of its dominance. No, I’m…
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11 weeks ago
Ten Things People Don’t Know (Or Have Wrong) About The New Lytro Field Camera
Most of the people opining about the Lytro have never seen one, never held one, never used one – but these days, I guess authority doesn’t count for much in a culture where…
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11 weeks ago
TechCrunch
It’s sort of funny that the only major thing those in the rumor business got wrong was the name of the new iPad. It’s not the previously presumed “iPad 3″, nor is it the…
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12 weeks ago
Why Bootstrap might be *very* important
What the Mac realized is that there are a set of things that all software has to do, so why shouldn't they all do them the same way? If they did, software would be easier to develop and debug, but…
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12 weeks ago
Social Ed.
Facebook came around at the perfect time for me. It was my freshman year of college, and everyone had one. At the time only college students could join, making it the perfect tool to meet new people…
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12 weeks ago
Violent Young Men and Our Place in War
by W. [Editor’s Note: W is an experienced soldier with combat experience in several corners of the world. They are now working as a PMC and cannot reveal their identity due to the possibility…
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12 weeks ago
How to Write an Email That Will Actually Get a Response
How to write an email? What’s next? A post on how to tie your shoes? I know, I know. Email is such an ubiquitous part of our lives that you might think that people would naturally have it down…
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12 weeks ago
Inside the High Tech Hunt for a Missing Silicon Valley Legend
It looked like a fine day for a sail. On Sunday, January 28, 2007, Microsoft researcher Jim Gray woke up on his boat, a red 40-foot fiberglass cruiser called Tenacious. The water in Gashouse Cove, a…
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12 weeks ago
An Open Letter to People Who Judge My Single, Post-College Lifestyle.
An Open Letter to People Who Judge My Single, Post-College Lifestyle. Dear People Who Judge My Single, Post-College Lifestyle - I am 27 years old, and on occasion I still drink until I throw up. In…
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12 weeks ago
Why Comcast Will Crush Netflix
This blog is written by a member of our expert blogging community and expresses that expert's views alone. I’m sitting in my rental car outside of eBay headquarters on a rainy day in San…
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march 2012
The Boy Who Played With Fusion
Taylor Wilson always dreamed of creating a star. Now he’s become one Standout Taylor Wilson moved to suburban Reno with his parents, Kenneth and Tiffany, and his brother Joey to attend…
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march 2012
Online Poker Kings Get Cashed Out- New York
When you've turned nothing into something once already, you tend to feel like you can do it again. There's faith your luck will turn. Perhaps it's delusion. But for a professional poker player,…
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march 2012
I'm Being Followed: How Google—and 104 Other Companies—Are Tracking Me on the Web
Who are these companies and what do they want from me? A voyage into the invisible business that funds the web. This morning, if you opened your browser and went to NYTimes.com, an amazing thing…
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march 2012
Give it five minutes
A few years ago I used to be a hothead. Whenever anyone said anything, I’d think of a way to disagree. I’d push back hard if something didn’t fit my world-view. It’s like I…
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march 2012
The Urban Survival Skills Everyone Needs to Know
The fantasy of an impending zombie apocalypse may inspire urban survival fantasies in the most level-headed of us, but zombie apocalypse or not, knowing how to survive the breakdown of social…
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march 2012
Diet Soda, the Silent Killer?
Vintage diet sodas from the '60s and '70s. Roadsidepictures/FlickrWhat is this thing called diet soda? Here are the ingredients of one of the best-selling brands, Diet Pepsi: CARBONATED WATER,…
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march 2012
The Boy Who Played With Fusion
Taylor Wilson always dreamed of creating a star. Now he’s become one By Tom Clynes Posted 02.14.2012 at 12:52 pm Standout Taylor Wilson moved to suburban Reno with his parents, Kenneth and…
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march 2012
Why Google+ Doesn’t Care If You Never Come Back
Ad targeting. Google+ is designed to power ad targeting, and for that it only needs you to sign up once. This lets it combine the biographical information you initially enter such as age, gender,…
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march 2012
Verisign seizes .com domain registered via foreign Registrar on behalf of US Authorities.
Yesterday Forbes broke the news today that Canadian Calvin Ayre and partners who operate the Bodog online gambling empire have been indicted in the U.S., and in a blog post Calvin Ayre…
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february 2012
A Season Premiere, a Falling Man and Memories of 9/11
David W. Dunlap/The New York Times The image of a falling man on a billboard for “Mad Men,” at Seventh Avenue and 30th Street.In the visual vortex around Seventh Avenue and 34th Street,…
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february 2012
This is how Apple’s top secret product development process works
Many aspects of Apple’s product development process have long been shrouded in mystery. The process is discussed in a new book Inside Apple: How America’s Most Admired–and…
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february 2012
True Innovation
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february 2012
They’re, Like, Way Ahead of the Linguistic Currrrve
From Valley Girls to the Kardashians, young women have long been mocked for the way they talk. Whether it be uptalk (pronouncing statements as if they were questions? Like this?), creating…
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february 2012
Cookies and Privacy
A week ago, John Battelle wrote a curious response to this Wall Street Journal report about Google circumventing Safari’s (and, notably, Mobile Safari’s) default setting only to accept…
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february 2012
How I Found the Human Being Behind Horse_ebooks, The Internet’s Favorite Spambot
Horse_ebooks became a bonfide internet celebrity when organizers of ROFLCON, the premier conference on internet pop culture, asked in January: "Anyone know how we might be able to get in touch with…
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february 2012
Hit men, click whores, and paid apologists
It’s tough being a journalist, especially if you’re covering technology and living in Silicon Valley, because it seems as if everyone around you is getting fabulously rich while…
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february 2012
The Sony 50 1.8 OSS “E” Mount NEX Lens review on the NEX-7
The Sony 50 1.8 E Mount Lens review on the NEX-7 By Steve Huff I have been shooting with the Sony NEX-7 for a couple of months now and sadly I have to pack it up and ship it back to Sony next week.…
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february 2012
So Many Apologies, So Much Data Mining
Last week, Arun Thampi, a programmer in Singapore, discovered that the mobile social network Path was surreptitiously copying address book information from users’ iPhones without notifying…
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february 2012
parislemon • Content Everywhere, But Not A Drop To Drink
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february 2012
A firsthand look at Microsoft’s search engine
Over the past week, I’ve used no search engine but Bing. Both on my phone, and on my computers, it’s been a Bing world. This week long test came to be during an excellent meeting in…
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february 2012
I’m So, So Sorry. Here’s My Belly. Now Please Move On.
“All this social media nonsense is destroying our community,” a prominent venture capitalist told me on the phone a couple of weeks ago. It was a throw away comment in a larger…
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february 2012
No Longer An Awkward Teenager? Gamification Grows Up
Editor’s note: Guest contributor Joseph Puopolo is an entrepreneur and startup enthusiast, who blogs on a variety of topics including green initiatives, technology and marketing. Over the last…
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february 2012
Traveling Light in a Time of Digital Thievery
SAN FRANCISCO — When Kenneth G. Lieberthal, a China expert at the Brookings Institution, travels to that country, he follows a routine that seems straight from a spy film. He leaves his…
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february 2012
How U.S. Lost Out on iPhone Work
People flooded Foxconn Technology with résumés at a 2010 job fair in Henan Province, China. When Barack Obama joined Silicon Valley’s top luminaries for dinner in California…
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february 2012
Facebook, privacy and the dark web
Is scaremongering about the so-called “dark web” obscuring an overdue debate about privacy? Joshua Lachkovic says that 2012 really will be the year that personal data concerns hit the…
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february 2012
Earth Station: The Afterlife of Technology at the End of the World
The Jamesburg Earth Station is a massive satellite receiver in a remote valley in California. It played a central role in satellite communications for three decades, but had been forgotten until the…
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february 2012
Is GPS All in Our Heads?
IT’S a question that probably every driver with a Garmin navigation device on her dashboard has asked herself at least once: What did we ever do before GPS? How did people find their way…
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february 2012
You Stopped SOPA. Now Let’s Startup America
Note from the editor: This is a guest post from Steve Case, the co-founder of AOL (which owns TechCrunch) and founder of Revolution. Case is the chairman of the Startup America Partnership and sits…
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january 2012
Human Costs Are Built Into an iPad
The explosion ripped through Building A5 on a Friday evening last May, an eruption of fire and noise that twisted metal pipes as if they were discarded straws. When workers in the cafeteria ran…
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january 2012
How Helvetica Conquered The World With Its Cool, Comforting Logic
How did a clean, useful alphabet become as ubiquitous as the air we breathe? Simon Garfield recounts the story and examines its emotional pull. This is the second excerpt from Just My Type. To read…
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january 2012
Mark Shuttleworth
The desktop remains central to our everyday work and play, despite all the excitement around tablets, TV’s and phones. So it’s exciting for us to innovate in the desktop too, especially…
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january 2012
Is My MacBook Pro Always Listening?
This is a short post about something that has been bugging me (perhaps even quite literally?) since Apple removed the line-in devices from smaller laptops several years ago. What are you talking…
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january 2012
Sutter’s Mill
In the twilight of Moore’s Law, the transitions to multicore processors, GPU computing, and HaaS cloud computing are not separate trends, but aspects of a single trend – mainstream…
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january 2012
On pirates and piracy
We've heard a lot about "piracy" in the last few months. But as you'd expect, there's a lot of confusion, particularly by the folks doing the name-calling, about what pirates really are. Pirates…
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january 2012
The Verge
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january 2012
The Hacker is Watching
Melissa wondered why her goof-off sister was IM'ing from the next room instead of just padding over—she wasn't usually that lazy—so she walked over to see what was up. Suzy just…
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january 2012
You Simply Must Read This Article That Explains Why Apple Makes iPhones In China And Why The U.S. Is Screwed
Wikimedia CommonsShenzhen The manufacturing processes of Apple and other electronics companies have come into sharp focus of late, with the revelation of more details about what life is like for the…
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january 2012
Unlimited data is dead, so let's fight a smarter fight
For the smartphone-heavy United States, the notion of unlimited wireless data is dead, kaput, finis. It's not coming back. Many other parts of the world are in the same boat, and those that aren't…
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january 2012
Do Great Things
Editor’s Note: Guest contributor Justin Rosenstein is the co-founder of Asana. We have a greater capacity to change the world today than the kings and presidents of just 50 years ago. Whether…
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january 2012
How to be Relentlessly Resourceful [a practical guide]
Relentlessly resourceful. This is the essential quality of a good startup founder according to Paul Graham, cofounder of Y Combinator. When asked by Forbes what he looks for in founders, four out of…
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january 2012
Confessions of a Binge Drinker
If, as the CDC suggests in a new report, binge drinking leads to violence, spread of sexually transmitted diseases, unwanted pregnancy, and risky behavior, then why am I doing just fine? I binge…
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january 2012
If You Want Change Agents, Hire Pirates
Why? Because pirates can operate when rules and safety nets break down. [The following is an excerpt from What Would Steve Jobs Do?: How the Steve Jobs Way Can Inspire Anyone to Think Differently…
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january 2012
Why I'm a Pirate!
Traduction française Dear copyright industry, I'm a pirate. I'm the typical user you are fighting. I'm downloading everything and not giving you one single penny. I don't even attend concert.…
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january 2012
A Design Primer for Engineers
Design They just want to mail a picture of their cat A Design Primer for Engineers For a word that can so vastly change the fortunes of a company, it’s worth noting that no generally accepted…
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january 2012
Men’s Journal » Print » Everything You Know About Fitness is a Lie
Photograph by Frederik Broden by Daniel Duane I hate the gym. At least, I hate the gym as imagined by the modern American health club: the mindless repetitions on the weight machines, halfhearted…
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january 2012
How Much Do Music and Movie Piracy Really Hurt the U.S. Economy?
(Photo: Srikrishna K)Supporters of stronger intellectual property enforcement — such as those behind the proposed new Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and Protect IP…
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january 2012
Ricky Gervais Would Like to Non-Apologize
In a onetime mess hall on a decommissioned Royal Air Force base outside London, Ricky Gervais was directing the 4-foot-6 star of a low-budget re-enactment of “The Passion of the…
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january 2012
Putting SOPA on a shelf
January 15, 2012 8:00 AM Putting SOPA on a shelf By Steve Benen
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january 2012
Jane McGonigal: Gaming can make a better world
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january 2012
This Is Why You Don't Go to the Gym
We can't keep our own fitness promises for the same reason that addicts are addicts and Congress can't pass deficit reduction Zurijeta /ShutterstockEvery January, millions of Americans, brimming…
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january 2012
Dark Buffers in the Internet
Today's networks are suffering from unnecessary latency and poor system performance. The culprit is bufferbloat, the existence of excessively large and frequently full buffers inside the…
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january 2012
If SOPA's Main Target Is The Pirate Bay, It's Worth Pointing Out That ThePirateBay.org Is Immune From SOPA
from the just-saying... deptIn looking over Eric Goldman's excellent "linkwrap" of a bunch of recent SOPA/PIPA stories, it pointed me to a News.com article from last month, about how SOPA was really…
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january 2012
Who Word Processed First? Professor’s History Has Writers Staking Their Claim
Brendan Smialowski for The New York Times Matthew G. Kirschenbaum at his office at the University of Maryland, where he is an associate professor of English.Matthew Kirschenbaum, the English…
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january 2012
SOPA might force choice to stop cyberspies, bank robbers and ID thieves or stop illegal MP3s
January 11, 2012, 2:58 PM — If you've been following the debate over the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) adored by music companies, broadcasters and hardly anyone else, you'll have noticed…
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january 2012
Why Samsung Is The Next Apple
For most of the ten years I’ve been coming to CES, every presentation, every booth, has had one goal: to create an ecosystem in order to encourage consumer to lock in. Year after year,…
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january 2012
Why I Hate Android
Why do I hate Android? It’s definitely one of the questions I get asked most often these days. And most of those that don’t ask probably assume it’s because I’m an iPhone…
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january 2012
Open Letter to Apple�Shareholders
Dear Shareholder: We at Apple would like to thank you for standing by us all through the years. To our original investors we owe particular gratitude. If it were not for you, we of course, would not…
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january 2012
How Many Stephen Colberts Are There?
Stephen Colbert dressing for a rehearsal of "The Colbert Report." More Photos » Correction Appended There used to be just two Stephen Colberts, and they were hard enough to distinguish.…
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january 2012
Steve Blank
This year the movie industry made $30 billion (1/3 in the U.S.) from box-office revenue. But the total movie industry revenue was $87 billion. Where did the other $57 billion come…
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january 2012
SOPA, Freedom, And The Invisible War
While laughable in scope and reach (not to mention ridiculous in terms of potential enforcement) the Stop Online Piracy Act is seen as a very real threat to our freedom to, in short, surf the…
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january 2012
'The Sims' Designer Creating New Game for Real Life
RALEIGH, North Carolina (Reuters) - Will Wright, the designer behind successful video game simulations including "SimCity", "The Sims" and "Spore", is at it again. Only this time, rather than…
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january 2012
Learning to Smoke
Originally published in the March 2008 issue Five weeks ago, I was working the elliptical, my feet throbbing out those nasty loops. The entire machine panted its report, the morning mantra: down,…
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january 2012
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