September 2011
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25 CEOs Who Made More Than Their Companies Paid In... →
Only five of these 25 companies paid any corporate income taxes to the federal government. One business had a zero sum on income taxes paid, while the remaining 19 companies all received millions back from the government.
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August 2011
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We Are Time Warner, We Are Making A Ton Of Money... →
V For Vendetta wasn’t an actual protest, it was a pastiche of a protest, as presented by a bestselling comic book and blockbuster movie. Similarly, by adopting the “V” mask, Anonymous risks appearing less as a genuine grass-roots movement than a parody of one — a carbon copy of something that some kids saw in a movie and decided to mimic because it looked cool. A meme.
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Infographic: How Americans Use Social Tools in... →
More than 1/3 of people expect help to arrive within one hour of posting need to a social site.
Seriously?
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“I feel like clout is something that builds up on your teeth.”
– Andrew Mason, CEO, Groupon | Is Groupon’s Bizarre CEO Ruining His IPO?
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Off the San Francisco Rails: $1.6 billion for 1.7... →
Tony Bennett may have left his heart in San Francisco, but the politicians who contrived the city’s Chinatown subway project must have left their brains somewhere else. The subway is a case study in government incompetence and wasted taxpayer money.
Transportation experts say the subway’s design is seriously flawed.
Commuters will have to travel eight stories underground to catch the...
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“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s...”
– Steve Jobs | ThinkExist.com
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Facebook Makes Teens Drink & Do Drugs, Generally... →
Califano claims that kids are engaging in more risky behavior because they see photos of kids getting drunk and using drugs on the site. He adds, “Continuing to provide the electronic vehicle for transmitting such images constitutes electronic child abuse.”
And from the comments:
“Sure the kids smoke and drink on Facebook. But now that MySpace is over, where are they going to...
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65% of online adults use social networking sites... →
“The graying of social networking sites continues, but the oldest users are still far less likely to be making regular use of these tools,” said Mary Madden, Senior Research Specialist and co-author of the report. “While seniors are testing the waters, many Baby Boomers are beginning to make a trip to the social media pool part of their daily routine.”
Some people should not write.
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Investors Value Tumblr at $800 Million -- Adweek →
With 13.4 million users in the U.S., Tumblr still lags far behind WordPress’ 44 million users and Google-owned Blogger’s 64 million users. But its page views are much higher. In July, Tumblr had 3.8 billion U.S. page views, while WordPress had 282 million and Blogger had 718 million.
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“It’s that journalism of all kinds has now become something you do, not something...”
– The Twitter effect: We are all members of the media now
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Public Enemy's Chuck D: 'We Will See the End of... →
Public Enemy frontman Chuck D has a pessimistic scenario about the future of technology. The politically active rapper tweeted last night, “2013 we will see the end of SocialNetworks. 2012 every phone is a tracking device & keeping you locked in CRIB.”
All I’m saying is: when the man that wrote “Fight the Power” turns on you, it might be a good idea to reevaluate...
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“Innovation has nothing to do with how many R&D dollars you have. When Apple...”
– Steve Jobs | Money Quotes, Steve Jobs-Style | Wired.com
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“Today, we are living in a world that’s about taking short-term decisions: CEOs...”
– Om Malik | Steve Jobs and the sound of silence
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“It’s better to be a pirate than to join the Navy.”
– Steve Jobs | Money Quotes, Steve Jobs-Style | Wired.com
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Things We Learned After Tuesday's Earthquake →
4) Always pack your flats!
That’s #4 in your emergency survival guide? Pack an alternative to heels? East Coast, you’re doomed.
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“Control+F [is] “the single most important thing you can teach someone...”
– Alexis Madrigal | Why Using Control+F May Be the Most Important Computing Skill
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Check Out the Repulsive Side of Silicon Valley →
Enjoy the view of this ridiculous Valley groupthink: Spending money to live well is gaudy, but gambling money to elevate yourself from rich to superrich is friendly and socially constructive.
So bitter!
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“The number of Facebook users in the US will increase 13.4% this year, eMarketer...”
– What Changing Social Media Usage Means for Marketers - eMarketer
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Best Study Ever: Wasting Time Online Boosts Worker... →
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Crazy: 90% of People Don't Know How to Use CTRL+F →
“I do these field studies and I can’t tell you how many hours I’ve sat in somebody’s house as they’ve read through a long document trying to find the result they’re looking for. At the end I’ll say to them, ‘Let me show one little trick here,’ and very often people will say, ‘I can’t believe I’ve been wasting my...
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““When we were an agrarian nation, all cars were trucks because that’s what you...”
– Steve Jobs | The end of the PC era
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How many languages does a typical United States... →
Results from the data:
25 presidents were only fluent in one language. (English)
44 presidents were fluent in a total of 78 languages. That comes out to 1.77 languages per president.
Only one president was fluent in Mandarin. (Herbert Hoover)
Only one president’s first language was not English. (Martin Van Buren—Dutch)
Thomas Jefferson was simply a boss for being fluent in 6 languages....
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“Leave it to a 224 year old document drawn up by old white men to have the most...”
– High School Girls Have the Right to Upload Lewd Pictures
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“The average American undertakes approximately 170 rituals a day—from...”
– What Apple Babies Reveal About Our Tech Routines — Fast Company
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“As part of an experiment for my forthcoming book Brandwashed, I lined up 20...”
– What Apple Babies Reveal About Our Tech Routines — Fast Company 