November 2011
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“But a social network isn’t a product; it’s a place. Like a bar or a club, a...”
– Google Pages Won’t Save Search Giant’s Social Network, Slate Says (via azspot).
It’s interesting that DMs and RTs and things like that all started as work-arounds to accomplish communication goals on Twitter, and now they’re fully-featured mechanisms within Twitter’s official...
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Watchhypothes.is is a website that wants to peer-review the ENTIRE internet. It’s a cool idea, but it also might be a pretty misguided one. Wikipedia is already a peer-reviewed internet. What hypothes.is means by “peer reviewed” is that everything is reviewed by experts, not actual peers. And as far as I can tell, the thing that makes the internet so great is that you don’t HAVE...
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“JD: That’s because, as important as politics are to me, the life and the spirit...”
– John Darnielle on politics in lyrics (via slocedot).
Some would refer to a songwriter who takes on social issues and engages with politics as a responsible artist. To do so is to misunderstand the responsibilities of the artist. John Darnielle is ACTUALLY a responsible artist.
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Could Reddit Make Its Own 'Rome, Sweet Rome' And... →
The short answer to that question seems to be yes, but it’s also interesting, and barely mentioned, that the collaborative elements of the story (the ones written by both the original poster and the rest of Reddit’s posters) belong to the individuals who came up with them. WB might face some unique and interesting obstacles to this production!
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“Voting 2-1 to void the fine, the court stated that the FCC has maintained a...”
– The AV Club brings to our attention something most people hadn’t thought about in a while. I took a course on FCC law once, and it was interesting to see how hugely the FCC’s policies and what they choose to pursue can change with each administration.
For instance, since Obama took...
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“A team of computational linguists at Carnegie Mellon University… has used...”
– Twitterology - A New Science? - NYTimes.com (via interestingsnippets).
It’s weird that this isn’t obvious. Everything is data now, and it’s stupid not to treat it as such.
October 2011
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What Wikipedia Deletes, and Why →
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The researchers, Andrew G. West and Insup Lee, wondered what content on the enormously popular Web site could be so troubling that Wikipedia administrators would decide to remove it forever. “Wikipedia is at that paramount example of open-source transparency,” Mr. Lee said. “So when you see them behaving in a nontransparent manner, you want to see what motivates them to do...
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“The company’s recent, dark and confusing quarter resulted in a loss of 810,000...”
– Netflix lost around 810,000 subscribers over the last few months | Film | Newswire | The A.V. Club.
This is a shocking number. I know they had some losses, but I never would have thought it’d be so many people. LEARN YOUR LESSON, Netflix.
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Google+ Loses 60% of Active Users →
Despite users’ curiosity around Google+, it seems like most Google+ users just wanted to see the platform before returning to Facebook. ‘Google has lost over 60 per cent of its active users on its social network Google+, according to a report by Chitika Insights, raising questions about how well it is doing against its rival, Facebook. Despite the clear interest in an alternative to Facebook, it...
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“I love that when Occupy Wall Street was denied permission to use bullhorns,...”
– Eugene Robinson (via azspot). I love a good analog solution to a problem. I don’t really have a TON to say about the whole Occupy Wall Street thing. It’s a general sort of mish-mash of ideas the same way that the Tea Party is a general mish-mash of ideas. It’s maybe more fun, and... 