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    Image of Novaload Novaload
    10/31/09

    In reply to Nobody Loves Weepy VP Joe
    Biden was the most inscrutable choice, ever, for VP. Instead of "change" Obama brought out an old hack, who had trouble with both truth telling, even during the campaign, and with inserting his foot into his mouth. Oh, to know what kind of negotiation that was, to get him on the ticket---except, perhaps to allay terrified old white guys who feared a woman and a (half)black man on the ticket would bring on the apocalypse. #joebiden
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    10/30/09

    In reply to Nobody Loves Weepy VP Joe
    apparently I am in the minority, but I love Joe Biden! I think he's like the lovable Steve Urkel of the White House. He comes in, says stupid stuff, knocks shit over, and is like "Did I do that?" Oh Joe. #joebiden
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    10/30/09

    In reply to Nobody Loves Weepy VP Joe
    Joe Biden is everything thats wrong and fucked up with congress. This dope won his seat in the Senate when he was 29 and has never had another job until being VP. He has learned about as much about how the country works from his perch in DC as Palin learned about Russia from staring at it. He is walking proof we need term limits.

    And he doesn't drink. I don't trust people who don't drink, unless they've already been alcoholics. #joebiden
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    Image of Motoko Kusanagi Motoko Kusanagi
    10/30/09

    In reply to Nobody Loves Weepy VP Joe
    Why is it that I feel compelled to defend Gawker's subject matter against the editors/writers at least once a day lately?

    Either this new crop of staff writers is utterly fucked, or the editorial direction has taken a nosedive, or both.

    Is there some negative correlation between the quality of stories and the quality of AJAX/CSS? #joebiden
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    10/30/09

    @Motoko Kusanagi: From where I'm standing, it would appear to be a positive correlation. It's a good day when I get tripped up by fewer than five unresponsive scripts, infinite waits for comments to load or what have you. #joebiden
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    Image of Motoko Kusanagi Motoko Kusanagi
    10/30/09

    @romulus: The site gets prettier, and the content gets lamer. Just callin it as I see it. #joebiden
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    10/30/09

    @Motoko Kusanagi: Oh yeah, I didn't mean to quibble. I agree that the site gets fancier all the time, but features seem to break often. I should have added before that it could well be my OS and browser causing headaches most readers don't experience. And in all fairness, I haven't been reading long enough to judge contemporary content against the past. #joebiden
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    10/30/09

    In reply to Nobody Loves Weepy VP Joe
    Not sure what point you're trying to make, Amrita... that you think Cheney's worldview makes some sense? That Cheney was initially popular, before everything he did brought his popularity rating to a low of 28%? I love it that Biden is willing to call a moron a moron. This is a ridiculous post. #joebiden
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    10/30/09

    In reply to Nobody Loves Weepy VP Joe
    Oh, and if you're trying to poke fun at Vice Prez Biden for weeping during the debate when he spoke about his first wife and baby daughter who died, well then, that's just messed up. #joebiden
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    10/31/09

    @Conchie Birdie: One might argue that it was the worst kind of political hackdom for him to bring them up expressly to show his "empathy" side and try to squeeze a tear out of his plastic-surgeryized eye slots. #joebiden
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    10/30/09

    In reply to Nobody Loves Weepy VP Joe
    I'm absolutely NOT a supporter of ANYTHING Dick says... but, Good Lawwd, Biden, Bin Laden will always BE a part of the issue. I'm sorry, I guess if you had the prez saying this I could understand... but, uh, Joe? Nope.

    That being said, why are we posting crap from Fox News anyway - I thought we weren't supposed to take this stuff seriously?
    #joebiden
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    04/09/09

    In reply to Debunking the AP's Aggregation Aggravation
    This has a ton of flaws in it. First, it doesnt account at all for overlap. I read the Times everyday, because I like. Do I sometimes click a link on a blog or google something that directs me to the Times website, yes, but those page views would have happened without assistance. Also, you've got websites where you can esentially read a Times story without ever actually going to their website. Have you heard of Gawker.com? You can go, read the gist of the article, and never bother to click through to the Times, never affecting their page views and having their writers work for free. I guess the Times could reference Gossip Girl in more of their news stories, but, it might be a good idea to have a few people out there still actually reporting.
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    04/09/09

    In reply to Debunking the AP's Aggregation Aggravation
    dont WSJ, CNN, and NYT all pay the AP for its content? I don't think they're the ones the AP is complaining about. In fact, I bet any offsite links those 3 do have, they actually have business agreements with whoever they link to.

    Why even bother trying to lump them in with Google News which just links whatever it feels like?
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    Image of Owen Thomas Owen Thomas
    04/09/09

    @GilroyBrizo: Actually, Dow Jones, the publisher of the WSJ, already runs a rival newswire, and CNN is planning one of its own that it's pitching directly to the AP's newspaper customers. In any event, can you explain to me what a licensing agreement to run complete articles has to do with the right anyone has under the fair-use doctrine to quote from news stories?
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    Image of MisterHippity MisterHippity
    04/08/09

    In reply to Debunking the AP's Aggregation Aggravation
    Simply quoting Google and Techmeme execs saying that this is bullshit does not "debunk" the AP's stance, as the title of this piece claims. Google and Techmeme aggregate news, so they are directly threatened by this.


    Looking to representatives of those two companies for the final word on this subject is like looking to Halliburton for the final word on whether the Iraq war is justified.

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    Image of 92BuickLeSabre 92BuickLeSabre
    04/08/09

    @MisterHippity: Well, who else would you expect KBR to tell you to listen to?
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    04/08/09

    In reply to Debunking the AP's Aggregation Aggravation
    But the chart supports the newspapers' central complaint: Papers' sites would still get traffic without search engines. But those search engines' news sites wouldn't get any traffic without the papers. Yet that dependency is not reflected in revenues.
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    Image of Owen Thomas Owen Thomas
    04/09/09

    @UmaGaleo: You live in a fascinating world where newspapers are the only media and newspaper-employed journalists are the only people capable of reporting. Is it pretty there?
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    04/02/09

    In reply to Shit on the Rise
    But what do these statistics mean when paired with the fact that shit just got real?
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    04/02/09

    In reply to Shit on the Rise
    I desperately want someone to do this graph for the Telegraph, only for b******, f***, c***, etc. Foreals, they do that!
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    04/02/09

    In reply to Shit on the Rise
    Alas, no Paki
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    04/02/09

    @westie1984: Fuck's sake, wanker.
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    04/02/09

    In reply to Shit on the Rise
    This thread reads like a collective case of Tourette's.
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