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Clive Thompson on the Age of Microcelebrity: Why Everyone’s a Little Brad Pitt - Wired.Com
Does the photographer look like one of those people who will immediately dash home and post all their candids to Flickr? “If I think it’s going to end up on the Web, I straighten up more, try to smile the right way,” Hirshberg says.
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Top technolog trends in government for 2008 - InterGovWorld.Com
The past year has been an exploratory phase for many technologies that have already hit the private sector. For government, 2008 will be about using new tools and technologies to change the way it interacts and collaborates with citizens.
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Square Watermelon Problem Solving - DumbLittleMan.Com
Stop the all-night brainstorming: Think of the worst thunderstorm you’ve ever witnessed. How long did it last, an hour or two. Well that is about your brain’s limit on brainstorming as well, take regular breaks. Go for a jog, play a video game.
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Labels Concede That File-Sharing Isn’t So Bad After All - Techdirt.Com
Imeem, a social networking site that was in the recording industry’s crosshairs earlier this year for allowing file-sharing on its network. This summer it settled its lawsuit with Warner Music, it’s signed similar deals with all four major labels.
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MapSpammers Getting More Sophisticated - SearchEngineLand.Com
The basics of the plan are simple (as originally described at oooff.com): * Rent a mailing address with forwarding in every major market near the centroid of the city (UPS is one of many that offer this service)
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Techdirt: Google’s PageRank Works Like Our Brains
New research on how human memory and recall works suggests that the process is quite similar to Google’s PageRank in determining what things are more important and should be recalled first. Google’s PageRank looks at “popularity,”
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Update: Strangled to Death for Not Wearing a Hijab - LittleGreenFootballs.Com
The 16-year old girl who was attacked and strangled by her own father in the Toronto suburb of Mississauga for refusing to wear the Muslim head scarf has died, but the ultra-left Toronto Star is trying to whitewash this story.
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Good: Amazon Sends “Best Customer Service E-mail I’ve Ever Received” - Consumerist.Com
Perhaps fortunately for the general public, neither I, nor any of my colleagues whom I was ready to beg from, won this round. (Come to think of it, I don’t think we won *any* rounds.) It is important, however, that your genius be heard.
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Halo 3 sells 5 million. Mass Effect sells 1 million copies worldwide within 3 weeks! - VideoGamesBlogger.Com
BioWare’s critically acclaimed Xbox 360-exclusive RPG Mass Effect has sold one million copies in less than three weeks since its November 20th release. Halo 3 has sold a huge 5 million copies worldwide since September 25th.
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Gary Coleman Selling Car — and Dignity — on eBay - TMZ.com
Last month, it was an autographed GameCube. Now, Gary Coleman is auctioning off his ride, a Saturn Sky droptop! (He’s throwin’ in some autographed photos for free, with the $25,000 pricetag.) Whatchu need that money for, Arnold?
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Embarrassed to be Canadian - the Hollywood North Report - SarahMarchildon.Blogspot.Com
Not everything is rosey in Canada - “Almost every country at the UN climate conference in Bali is working hard to tackle climate change. As for Canada? Well, Canada is working hard to weasel out of taking action.”
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‘Tis the season: for spam - StillSecureAfterAllTheseYears.Com
Barracuda Networks released a new survey they did on Spam today. According to this survey between 90% and 95% of all email sent is spam. Also of interest was that business executives view spam as the worst junk advertising.
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Google Turning My Maps Into Social Mapping Platform With Collaboration, Ratings And Comments
Since April 2007 more than 7 million maps have been created according to Google. Then last month, Google introduced community editing and collaboration for My Maps. And today, Google is introducing comments and ratings for My Maps.
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Missing Folders in Google Docs - Blogoscoped.Com
An official Google Docs guide by the name of Chandler yesterday posted the following to the Google Docs help group (subject: “Missing Folders - not for long!”): No data has been lost and all of you should have your folders back in early January.
