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#project
The Laziest Journalists on Twitter
Reporters everywhere are in love with "crowdsourcing," in which sources magically come to them, saving the reporters several backbreaking telephone calls. But some correspondents have gotten embarrassingly addicted to this journalistic crack cocaine. And it's time for a intervention.
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#requestforinformation
Is Google's Cupcake Princess Planning to Electronically Track Her Wedding Guests?
We're still gathering details on the fairy-tale wedding Google's glamour geek Marissa Mayer is having this weekend. The latest: Guests are murmuring about some sort of tracking system that sounds as creepy as SkyNet — or Google itself.
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#holidaze
Yelp's Holiday Party Way Lustier Than Yours
At Yelp, every review is a chance for free drinks, every email a chance for distasteful punning — and every company party a chance to leer, spank and orgy out. Judging from the pictures, 2009's holiday bash was no exception.
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#conspiracytheories
Facebook's New 'Privacy' Scheme Smells Like an Anti-Privacy Plot
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg issued an open letter to his 350+ million users; you probably saw it this morning when logging in. Facebook will kill regional networks like "New York." Why? To trick you.
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#revenge
How to Exact Online Revenge, As Taught by the Wall Street Journal
The internet is turning us all into nasty, vengeful monsters, according to a Wall Street Journal columnist's trend piece. And you can become one of those monsters, by using the eye-opening tactics outlined in the article. Service-y!
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#culturewars
Let's Fight About a Gay-Sex Videogame This Christmas Season
Dragon Age: Origins has taken the terribly awkward genre of videogame dialog and melded it with gay romance and, also gay sex scenes. Who, in these United States, could possibly object to foisting this content on teenaged boys? More » -
#rumors
LEAK: The Google Phone "Is a Certainty"
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#media
A Glimpse of Google without News Corp.: No Big Loss
The media world is in a (relative) uproar over what the implications of News Corp. pulling its content off Google would be. But! A three-part Gawker investigation-type thing indicates the impact might be quite minimal for you, the consumer. Observe:
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#meltdowns
What the Hell's Wrong with Gavin Newsom?
Besides his Patrick Bateman hair, obviously. The San Francisco mayor and obvious prick went into hiding after mysteriously quitting the governor's race, and his silence-breaking TV interview was a mess.
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#valleyspawn
Yahoo's Lesbian 'Don Juan' Backhands Lindsay Lohan
Courtenay Semel, the sapphic spawn of former Yahoo CEO Terry Semel, is quoted in the lesbian magazine Curve dissing former lady friend Lindsay Lohan. Then she complains that the media twists her relationships. The nerve of this one.
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#lawsuits
Facebook Named in Federal Class-Action Suit over Scammy Zynga Ads
Facebook and Zynga are the defendants in a federal class-action lawsuit filed Tuesday, which seeks upwards of $5 million for social network users scammed in online game ads. Neither company's top-drawer investors can be happy.
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#marissamayer
The Google Princess' Fairy Tale Wedding
Marissa Mayer, Google's data-driven planner extraordinaire, has gone to work on her personal life: Friends of the VP are showing off the fancy wedding invites she just sent out — and talking about the three-day nuptials she's planning.
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#cubicleculture
Google's New York Office Is a Glorious Catalog of Dot-Com Clichés
Techie office accoutrements like razor scooters and free food faced mass extinction at the end of the last dot-com boom nine years ago. Google brought them back in full force, judging from pictures of its New York office.
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#rumors
Killing Them Softly: The ______ Is Dead Twitter Meme
If the New York Times' The Moment blog and its Twitter feed "hear" that Moz is dead, does it actually happen? Former Idolator editor Maura Johnston writes: "This inspired a lot of panicked e-mails to me late last night." Why? More » -
#rolemodels
The Time Marissa Mayer Invented Google
Another month, another glossy fashion magazine spread for Marissa Mayer, this time in Glamour. We get it, already: the Google veep is a computer scientist in Oscar de la Renta; a nerd invited to prom. Why embellish her achievements? More » -
#exclusive
The Revolution Will Not Be Tweeted Because Only 0.027% of Iranians Are on Twitter
Remember the storyline about a new Iranian revolution after the elections this summer? The one fuelled by the internet generation? The one that got the state department to intervene to help Iranians Twitter? Not so much.
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#kidstoday
Six Child Media Prodigies You Should Fear
That 16-year-old TechCrunch writer with 120,000 Twitter followers, who we wrote about yesterday, is part of a burgeoning child punditocracy. Children are operating in virtually every facet media — and doing so successfully. Fear for your job.
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#fameballs
Buy a Private Jet Trip with Ice Cream-Licking Art Star of Silicon Valley
Drue Kataoka sells engulfing quick dips in art and culture to rich Silicon Valley workaholics. Now she's selling the ultimate fast immersion: the chance to "leave your mark" on Kataoka's art during a private jet ride. More » -
#yourprivacyisanillusion
Big Google Is Watching: Meet Your Creepy Google Dossier (and Mine)
Today Google rolled out the "Google Dashboard," which is supposed to "protect your privacy" by offering control panels for the company's many products. But, really, it just scares the crap out of you. Google knows all. More » -
#dontbeevil
Is Google Using Pilfered Maps?
The town of Argleton, England doesn't exist, but you can search its white pages, look for nearby chiropractors and map a jog through town, because "Argleton" is on Google Maps. How'd the phantom town get there? Funny you should ask.
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