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9 months ago most of us hadn't even heard of the guy. But today he's breaking tech news like the best of them. Active on FriendFeed. And, already the most popular non-employee Newsmaker on socialmedian.
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TechCrunch
A tipster informed us this morning that Twitter’s search engine (formerly known as Summize before it was acquired this summer) has been showing tweets in its results that don’t actually exist on Twitter itself.These “phantom” tweets all contain the message “What a day :). Wed, 08 Oct 2008″ (Read More)
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With the country fighting two wars and economic cancer, McCain and Obama seem smaller than the moment — and their own biographies. (Read More)
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: SUMMARY: With the country at one of its most interesting — not to mention terrifying — moments in a generation, John McCain and Barack Obama met in Nashville for what was surely one of the dullest and least satisfying presidential debates in memory.
There have been boring debates before, of course. Truth be told, probably only a fraction of these encounters, over the 32 years since general election debates became a fixture of presidential campaigns, actually delivered on their promise of great political drama. And even interesting debates are inevitably somewhat stilted affairs, as candidates cleave to their scripts and try to avoid blunders.
But the Belmont University showdown was something entirely different. Place the gravity of the moment next to the blah-blah-blah artifice of the rhetoric and overall insubstantiality of the evening, and this is what you get: The worst presidential debate ever.
The day after leaves behind a puzzle: How the hell did candidates manage to be so timid and uninspiring at a time when American troops are in two problematic wars, the world financial markets are in scary free fall and the Dow has lost 1,400 points since Oct. 1? This is a moment history rarely sees — and both men blew it.
It was an odd reversal of the usual optics of power. Ordinarily, the national stage can take even life-size pols such as Michael Dukakis and imbue them with an outsize aura.
Tuesday's debate was a look through the wrong end of the telescope: Men with fascinating biographies seemed conventional. The promise both men once offered of a new, less contrived and more creative brand of politics was a distant memory.
An evening this bad is not the result of just an off night by the candidates. It can flow only from a confluence of circumstances.
Here is our appraisal of the factors behind the most disappointing presidential debate ever.
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Here are some new people who you may want to start following on socialmedian. These aren't the most "popular" people on the site, but people who deserve to be more popular and followed. (Read More)
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