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Happy Thorstag Omibus!
It’s that time again — time to sum up a few days’ worth of browsing in a single, massive post. Richard Scarry 1963 vs. Richard Scarry 1991, a study in the P.C. Police. Oops. Somebody’s getting fired, so fired: A less than… glowing review of Halo 3, featuring a wicked Australian accent and a healthy…
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The Proper Care And Feeding Of Fools, Internet Edition
Or: Idiotically digging Your Community’s Grave A “minor” rebellion over at digg yesterday has simply reinforced my perception that the comments section of said news aggregator is filled with either a) 14-year-old males with little-to-no understanding of the real world or b) grown men acting like 14-year-olds, petulantly thumbing their collective nose at “The Man”…
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Beyond Crypto Journalism: MySpace, digg And Trust Engines
I’ve had time to mull over the implications of my previous post on technological solutions to what ails journalism and have come to the conclusion that a solution based on high technology would ultimately fail for the same reason that PGP-based email encryption has failed to catch on in the world at large: it’s simply…
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Digg’s, Errrm, Digs
Kevin Rose, formerly of TechTV/G4 and cofounder of digg has posted a Flickr photoset comprising a tour of digg’s new office space. *sniff* Almost makes me wish I were back at my old Internet startup. Almost.