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Submitted by Badgergravling from Google Reader: It’s an accepted fact that we love an underdog in this country. Overdogs don’t even get a look in. From “Eddie” The Eagle Edwards to his conjoined grandsons Jedward, we have a soft spot for the tryers, doomed to failure. We celebrate the unlikely hero, the well-intentioned but hapless. Given this predilection, it’s a wonde (Read More)

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BuzzMachine On today’s On Point, Michael Wolff, Steve Brill, and I talked about Murdoch and Google and the show’s blog quoted me thusly:But News Corp isn’t the only one making the mistake here. I think the mistake that Google has made in this – and I’m an admirer of Google, I wrote a book to that effect – but I think that Google though (Read More)

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Ars Technica Yesterday at 11:30am, the Queen made her way to Parliament in a coach, entered the robing room to receive her crown, then followed someone known as the "Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod" to the door of the House of Commons. The Gentlemen Usher banged thrice upon the door with hi (Read More)

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Signal vs. Noise “Off the Chart” talks about how recent unemployment rate predictions turned out to be way off the mark. The reason: “Reality has produced numbers of its own.” And that’s the problem with projections. Reality is a terrible collaborator. No matter how much you try to work with it, it has a mind of its own. And it never listen (Read More)

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Ars Technica While the US talks, other countries are acting. Both Finland and Spain have now decided to add "broadband" to their universal service requirements. By 2011, any Finn or Spaniard, no matter where they live, should be able to get a reliable 1Mbps connection at a reasonable price." (Read More)

2 days ago

140Char Adding a description field to Twitter list creation is a simple change which has rolled out today, but it’s a useful one.Not only does it allow you to provide context to people who will view your list (Without creating a list title as long as a book), but presumably it will also be indexed to be searchable, enabling better (Read More)

2 days ago

TheWayoftheWeb I’ve been thinking about the concepts of game theory, play, and videogames for a while now – and they’re a lot more prominent in my thoughts considering the recent coverage of the success and controversy of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2.Coincidentally, there seems to have been a rise in discussions about whether videogames (Read More)

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140Char For a while it seemed as if building a third-party application for Twitter was a route to instant fortune (as were Facebook apps before it, and iPhone apps after it). But judging by the eventual sale of Twitter link tracker and aggregator Twitturly, it appears that bubble may now have burst.Since launching in April 2008, ri (Read More)

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TheWayoftheWeb Anyone else making a link between the uproar when UK Home Secretary Jacqui Smith revealed plans for private businesses like chemists and photo shops to record fingerprints and biometric data for the proposed national identity card scheme, and the news now that T-Mobile UK employees have been caught selling consumer data to (Read More)

4 days ago

FactoryCity PreludeYou take the blue pill and the story ends. You wake in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill and you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit-hole goes. Remember — all I am offering is the truth, nothing more.In the Matrix, Morpheus presents Neo with a choice: he can ta (Read More)

3 days ago

Mashable! We know how hard it is: birthday after birthday, those stubborn candles aren’t extinguishing themselves, and your poor lungs aren’t getting any younger. Help comes in the form of an iPhone application called Blower which actually moves air through the speakers of your iPhone (strictly speaking, the same thing happens when y (Read More)

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TechCrunch Funny observation made by The Times-Tribune newspaper editor and Internet content director Jeff Sonderman, especially given the seemingly never-ending quarrels between newspaper publishers and the search giant.At least two of the search suggestions still indicate newspapers are important and ‘not dying’.(Via TwitPic and a h (Read More)

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My Clippings on NewsGator Online PreludeYou take the blue pill and the story ends. You wake in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill and you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit-hole goes. Remember — all I am offering is the truth, nothing more.In the Matrix, Morpheus presents Neo with a choice: he can ta (Read More)

3 days ago

Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim What is it with airlines?If they’re not breaking guitars, their pilots are missing airports, or they’re berating people that are trying to help them.Well, we have one more reputation disaster to add to the list, courtesy of American Airlines.You may recall the open letter web designer Dusting Curtis wrote to the airline. In (Read More)

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