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Funny Because It’s True: The Simpsons Parody Apple and Steve Jobs 
Adam Ostrow via Mashable! on Mon, 01 Dec. 2008
While I do own several Apple products, I’ve often joked about the cult-like nature of some of the company’s fanatical enthusiasts. The Simpsons captured this sentiment remarkably well in a parody of Apple aired last night on FOX.
Complete with “The Mapple Store,” a “MyPod,” a $120
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Twitter - the Mumbai myths
Rory Cellan-Jones (BBC News) via BBC NEWS | dot.life blog on Mon, 01 Dec. 2008
It has quickly become the received wisdom amongst new and old media commentators - Twitter came of age last week during the Mumbai terror attacks. It is true that the micro-blogging service did provide vast amounts of information, at breakneck speed, about a confusing and rapidly changing series of even
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FriendFeed and level playing fields
(unknown author) via Scripting News on Sun, 30 Nov. 2008
I've always been a bit puzzled about how FriendFeed does RSS, but I've never (until now) taken the time to find the source of the puzzlement. I've always just fumbled my way around, sort of approximating what I wanted, and when I couldn't get it, falling back to the API. But now I've hit a wall, and taken the time to understand the nature of the wall. Let me explain.
Consider this screen (
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Why I Love Twitter
Tim O'Reilly via O'Reilly Radar - Insight, on Sat, 29 Nov. 2008
If you care what I think, you know that Twitter is just about the best way to learn what I'm paying attention to. I pass along tidbits of O'Reilly news, interesting reading from mailing lists and blogs I follow, and of course, tidbits from the twitterers I'm following. These are all the things I could never find time to put on my blog, but that I sp
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Wal-Mart Stampede Leaves Worker Dead, Pregnant Woman Injured (VIDEO)
JR Raphael via The Inquisitr on Fri, 28 Nov. 2008
A Wal-Mart worker is dead and a pregnant woman recovering from injuries following a Black Friday shopper stampede.
Employee Trampled
Police say the employee was trampled as shoppers pushed to get into the Long Island Wal-Mart location just after 5:00 a.m.
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Put change.gov Under Revision Control!
Tim O'Reilly via O'Reilly Radar - Insight, on Fri, 28 Nov. 2008
Last week, the New York Times wrote about Changes at change.gov:
The policy section of the transition site was removed without notice just days after Change.gov went live shortly after the election. At the time a spokesman for the Obama-Biden transition effort said they w
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Netbooks are about the users too, dummy!
(unknown author) via Scripting News on Fri, 28 Nov. 2008
CNet: ""If you've ever used a Netbook and used a 10-inch screen size -- it's fine for an hour. It's not something you're going to use day in and day out."
To which I say -- well hmm. I think the first part is right. And you will use your netbook every day, for about an hour or so, sounds just right. Inbetween things. Kind of
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Chris Power: Will iTunes kill off the album interlude?
Chris Power via Music | guardian.co.uk on Fri, 28 Nov. 2008
Chris Power: Charging for downloads per track may leave those little experimental slices struggling to be heard
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5 Incredibly Simple, Yet Useful Web Sites
Stan Schroeder via Mashable! on Fri, 28 Nov. 2008
Sometimes (very often, in my case) you’d like a web site or service to cut through the crap and just keep it simple, right? Well, every now and then a service that’s really easy to use ends up in our mailbox, and it’s a shame not to share them. These sites have no extra annoyances that defer from their purpose; it really doesn’t get any simpler than this.
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IT'LL ALL BE OVER BY CHRISTMAS
Steve Lamacq via BBC - Radio 6 Music - Steve La on Fri, 28 Nov. 2008
Usually the only dust-up you'd find in the music industry in the run-up to Christmas is a small bout of marketing-led fisticuffs over whose Greatest Hits albums have got the best shelf space in Asda - or the Gumball Rally style race for the Christmas Number One.
That's just the record industry dueling with a couple of wet fish.
But not this year. This year it is all out war. Not
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White House web
(unknown author) via BBC News | Technology | UK Edi on Fri, 28 Nov. 2008
How Barack Obama will use the net as US president
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The Web’s Simplest Weather Forecast
Pete Cashmore via Mashable! on Fri, 28 Nov. 2008
We told you Umbrella Today is the simplest weather site ever made. We were wrong. Now that ingenious idea - entering a zip code to find out whether you’ll need an umbrella today - has been one-upped. Or, o
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Why Mainstream Media Loves Twitter, Flickr and YouTube
Allen Stern via CenterNetworks on Fri, 28 Nov. 2008
From what I can tell, if you purchased a turkey in Silicon Valley over the past month, you were provided a free packet of "Twitter Kool-Aid" with purchase. It seems you can't go two clicks without reading about how Twitter is going to cure cancer, re
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Lycos Europe To Shut Down; Is Recession Taking a Toll on Old Giants?
Stan Schroeder via Mashable! on Thu, 27 Nov. 2008
Remember Lycos? It was once an unavoidable name on par with the Facebooks and the Twitters of the current world, but things change fast on the Internet. Its European arm, Lycos Europe, is
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Twitter News Network? You’ve got to be kidding
Steven Hodson via The Inquisitr on Thu, 27 Nov. 2008
It seems lately that when somewhere in the world goes to hell in a hand basket everyone starts lining up on either side of the fence as to whether or not Twitter is a valid news source
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BBC NEWS | World | South Asia | Live updates: Mumbai attacks
(unknown author) via news.bbc.co.uk on Thu, 27 Nov. 2008
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I love this form of news reporting. The Beeb aggregate several different sources (TV, Radio, Email, Twitter etc) to paint an up to date picture of events.Ideal if you're stuck in work with no access to TV.It seems to be getting used more and more of late.
Keep up with events in the Indian city of Mumbai after co-ordinated attacks kill
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I Can’t Believe Some People Are Still Saying Twitter Isn’t A News Source
Michael Arrington via TechCrunch on Thu, 27 Nov. 2008
Twitter is emerging as a major force in breaking news. But some people disagree.
Today we saw yet another illustration, when people in Mumbai got the word of terrorist attacks out to
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Free Is Not Socialism
Michael Masnick via Techdirt on Thu, 27 Nov. 2008
I've had a browser open with a two part series from the site "e-consultancy" for the better part of a month, debating whether or not it's even worth going through this battle again -- but it seems worth it to clear up some serious misconceptions. The first article decries "digita
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BuzzBox’s Fast Forward Is StumbleUpon With A Train Of Thought
Jason Kincaid via TechCrunch on Thu, 27 Nov. 2008
I like StumbleUpon, the website recommendation engine that lets me click a button whenever I’d like to view a
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