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Maxichamp
12/09/09

In reply to Tiger Woods Sex-Spank Animator Is Free-Speech Hero for the 21st Century
It's funny that the Chinese version of "his wife" that they used to describe Mrs. Woods is "his old lady".

Finally, the Chinese have excelled at something creative, entertaining, and funny.
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MrInBetween
12/09/09

In reply to Tiger Woods Sex-Spank Animator Is Free-Speech Hero for the 21st Century
It's a shame Next Media is being blocked from launching new ventures. Because... damn: A 30-minute evening "newscast" of these hilarious videos, in Taiwanese WITHOUT subtitles, would kill on Comedy Central.
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CrayonSmoothie
12/09/09

@MrInBetween: Badly subtitled, like the old HK flicks would be pretty sweet.
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raincoaster
12/09/09

@CrayonSmoothie: agreed
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yourfriendandneighbor
12/09/09

In reply to Tiger Woods Sex-Spank Animator Is Free-Speech Hero for the 21st Century
his shirt says La Coka. Oh yeah.
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johnivdaly
12/09/09

In reply to Tiger Woods Sex-Spank Animator Is Free-Speech Hero for the 21st Century
I don't know, Apple Daily is taking some serious liberties here. For example: since a Cadillac Escalade is hard to draw, they animated him having sex in a Honda Odyssey.
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registered
12/09/09

In reply to Where Did the Web Touch You?
I never knew that Fry was an according actor.
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DollaBrand
12/08/09

In reply to Where Did the Web Touch You?
where is this from?
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DollaBrand
12/08/09

@DollaBrand: just saw its from the BBC's Digital Revolution site.
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eatsshootsleaves
12/08/09

In reply to Where Did the Web Touch You?
Last night, around 3, I saw the Internet leaving Sullivan Room with Lindsay Lohan.

I gave them a nod.
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LeeroySpitzer
12/08/09

In reply to Where Did the Web Touch You?
On the Internet, my crazy uncle asked me "how come his videos ain't working." and sent me a link to the exact video he was trying to watch. Needless to say, things were hairy. Really fucking hairy. It's the future people, shave your bush.
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Swifter
12/08/09

In reply to Where Did the Web Touch You?
On the Internet, nobody knows it's not Christmas.
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i'm a bottle
12/07/09

In reply to The Twitter Song Is Media Thing of The Year
"The meta-philosophy of free — we should get rid of this philosophy," said Christoph Keese, Springer’s head of public affairs and an architect of its online strategy. "A highly industrialized world cannot survive on rumors. It needs quality journalism, and that costs money."

This is a quote from a Bild spokesman, a newspaper that has famously low editorial standards. I don't get his appeal to the public interest here. These people have made a business of publishing irresponsible rumors that appeal to populist sentiment.

There are German newspapers that are actually doing poorly. These are mainly the broadsheets with high standards. Bild is not having any major financial issues like the broadsheets are having. It's true that its circulation is decreasing, sure, but for a newspaper that has consistently chosen the profit motive as a guiding principle over quality journalism in the public's interest, it's obviously disingenuous of them to justify their price increase as a way to provide better journalism.

The motivation is so clear here: squeeze as much money out of their readers before the great unwashed migrate away from Bild to equally poor-quality blogs.
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freakshowtime
12/07/09

@i'm a bottle: I worked for a short period at Axel Springer. From what I saw, that company has a way of putting douchebags in charge and repressing people who actually have good ideas — even at the online division! But isn't this what the print media business does nowadays, anyway?
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i'm a bottle
12/07/09

@freakshowtime: The douchebaggery doesn't surprise me at all.

Also, those douches aren't doing their job. Most of the Bild properties haven't changed their format in years and their online presence is especially a mess.

They can't expect to just keep doing what they've been doing since the eighties yet hope to preserve or increase their circulation numbers. The major problem I see is that the Bild concept is graphics heavy but commentary light -- a format that's easily supplanted by anybody with an Internet connection and a Wordpress account.
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nirreskeya
11/30/09

In reply to AOL's Big Plan: Robot Traffic Whoring
Eternal December.
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If_I_Had_a_Poodle
11/30/09

In reply to AOL's Big Plan: Robot Traffic Whoring
They are breaking the internet by filling it up with crap

NOT AOL will be the default google search
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romulus
11/30/09

@If_I_Had_a_Poodle: No kidding. I already have similar problems with about.com and experts-exchange.com. For anyone who is curious how to exclude specific sites from their Google searches, there are a number of blogs that discuss it. I won't endorse one more than any other, so try [www.google.com] to start with.

Or, as iplaudius points out below, your favorite browser (Firefox) likely offers a host of 3rd-party extensions to exclude unwanted search results.
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daveyjonesisdead
11/30/09

In reply to AOL's Big Plan: Robot Traffic Whoring
"There I was, having a quiet day at home, when my crib recalled the day it was put together..."

Like that? I could do that.
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Penscribe
11/30/09

In reply to AOL's Big Plan: Robot Traffic Whoring
Blogs already do this.
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sweetpickles
11/30/09

In reply to AOL's Big Plan: Robot Traffic Whoring
Did they go to Harvard to get that business plan? FAIL!
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