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04 Dec 2009 18:26

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Tech: Facebook has a virtual population larger than most countries

  • 350 million people are on Facebook – they hit the amazing mark this week
  • 69
    million     people are on Farmville – which is incredibly lame and pathetic source
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03 Dec 2009 03:45

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Music: REO Speedwagon can’t fight this feeling to be marketed with a game

Heard it from a friend who heard it from a friend who heard it from another that this game really sucks. Sorry, REO. Couldn’t resist the golden opportunity. source
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03 Dec 2009 03:29

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Music: A quick rundown of the Grammy “Album of the Year” nominees


  • Obvious

  • Lame

  • Huh?

  • Obvious

  • Obvious
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01 Dec 2009 22:23

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Biz: Dear Google: Don’t bend to newspaper publishers so easily. It’s not cool.

  • First Click Free = Massive Fail. OK, we get it guys. Rupert Murdoch complains really loudly and he’s starting to scare you into believing other publishers might be next. But why are you putting your tail between your legs and creating technology designed to limit how much people can read without registration or subscription? Rupert Murdoch’s complaining doesn’t scare us. “First Click Free,” however, totally does. The very idea goes against everything your company stands for. Retreat, Google, retreat. source
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28 Nov 2009 09:00

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Tech: Not even Japanese consumers are willing to pay for tweets

The other day, word came out that Twitter’s Japanese counterpart might start charging for some tweets. Well, not so much. source
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27 Nov 2009 19:47

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Politics: The latest in awful hip-hop: Hi Caliber, a tea-partying rapper

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21 Nov 2009 16:40

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Politics: STLToday’s Kurt Greenbaum: First class bad word we can’t repeat here.

  • First rule of journalism: Don’t make yourself part of the story. Guess which rule the St. Louis Post-Dispatch’s social media editor broke? As the so-called internet hate machine closes in on a guy who cost another guy his job for a pretty petty reason, we think there are a few things to learn from the whole ordeal.
  • one Don’t make yourself part of the story. The second Greenbaum decided to look up a reader’s IP address and took matters into his own hands, the story stopped being about the comment and started being about the admitted narc. Bad move, buddy.
  • two Don’t violate your readers’ trust. People go to your site with the belief that they won’t get screwed over. In fact, the St. Louis Post Dispatch’s own privacy policy promises this. When you decide to be the morality police, you violate a reader’s trust.
  • three Expect a swift, painful response. Not long after our boy Kurt did this, he felt retribution from all corners of the interweb, including Reddit and Digg. And honestly, he should lose his job. He turned a minor issue into a policy-breaking debacle. source
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18 Nov 2009 10:54

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Tech: Daily poll: On Verizon and AT&T’s laughable coverage lawsuit

  • Truth in advertising? Who really knows. But today, a federal court hears arguments in a case that debates whether Verizon’s being truthful about its 3G coverage in maps. The claim, of course, is put up by AT&T. To undercut both companies, we’ve created a poll clearly designed to joke on both of them. Put your little selector whereever. We don’t care.source
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18 Nov 2009 10:09

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Culture: Sexiest Man Alive: Somehow, the real thing is faker than the Photoshop

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  • Dear blogosphere (you know who you are), are we really so gullible as to believe the Robert Pattinson “Sexiest Man Alive” cover? You barely have to know anything about Photoshop to notice that it’s an obvious fake. It doesn’t use the same fonts, and clearly you can tell they’re off! (On the other hand, nice job on the hair, anonymous faker – considering you knew this image had approximately an hour of currency on Twitter, you did a good job cutting it out.) Fortunately, it isn’t as fake as a magazine putting a 46-year-old man on their cover, claiming he’s the sexiest man alive, and trying to feign relevance. That, my friends, is fake. (Sorry, Johnny Depp. It’s not you. It’s People Magazine.)source
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13 Nov 2009 10:49

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U.S.: Coshocton, Ohio and the MPAA are really pissed at some pirate

  • 1 movie-downloading bastard ruined the free wi-fi for EVERYBODY! source
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