September 2008
16 posts
August 2008
15 posts
U.S. Net Hegemony is Slipping
In 1998, 70% of internet traffic passed through U.S. controlled routers. Ten years later, that number is down to 25%.
A Blogger Pact for the New Millennium: Lets Be...
I’ve been using this picture for almost a year. Today, this anonymous commenter on TechCrunch pointed our that I looked angry. Thank you for your refreshing honesty Mr. Mad Face:
Dude, what’s with the angry avatar? FYI: You don’t look serious, you look really pissed off.
So, lets make a pact – from one blogger to another: please tell me when my profile picture sucks, and...
How Not to Run a News Organization →
Bloomberg publishes Steve Jobs’ obituary a tad bit too early.
WatchDamn it feels good to be a banker. Reminds me a bit of Smirnoff’s Tea Partay.
“America is for sale, and the world is buying.”
Mormon Church Makes Bid To Acquire Facebook
CLARIFICATION: This post was published Aug. 20th at 1am
According to Zach Klein and his valley sources, the Mormon Church’s Family History Department has made a bid to acquire Facebook:
I heard from an employee close to the deal that the Mormon church’s genealogy business made an unsolicited bid to acquire Facebook.
The Mormon Church maintains the largest genealogical database in the...
“As a social experiment next semester, I’m going to walk up to strangers...”
– Jesse Baer
DataPortability Officers Named
Congratulations to the DataPortability Steering Group. Today, we announced election of the following officers:
Daniela Barbosa, chair;
Elias Bizannes, vice chair;
J. Trent Adams, secretary;
Brady Brim-DeForest, treasurer
Update: Marshall Kirpatrick has some great coverage and the full scoop over at ReadWriteWeb.
“Whatever you do in life, surround yourself with smart people who’ll argue with...”
– John Wooden
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