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By Shoq, on April 4, 2010, at 11:00 pm
Typical of conservatives, the minute their values are impacted—the moment THEY are personally impacted—the first thing they do is dive for the cover of victim status, and DEMAND someone (government?) DO SOMETHING!
Pastebin Document by #Tcot Warrior @GregWHoward
Twitter bills itself as “without a doubt the best way to share and discover what is happening right
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By Shoq, on April 2, 2010, at 8:21 pm
UPDATE1 (4/4/2010): I have it from a pretty reliable source that David Shuster has NOT been fired (as of this writing, anyway). And his bio has NOT been removed, as some had claimed. His "blog" may have been removed, but that could have been due to some unrelated issue. His MSNBC bio page
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By Shoq, on March 6, 2010, at 10:51 am
Who Says: Narrative Authority In a Fragmented World
Jay Rosen tweeted this seminal post by Megan Garber, articulating what the web and digital media are doing to authority memes and journalism's role in this bizarre new world.
Since the need to manage the tangled and competing taxonomic hierarchies of such a Narrative Big Brother has been
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By Shoq, on February 14, 2010, at 10:59 am
In an inadequately brief, but crucially important review or what is sure to be an even more important and discussed book, Ellen Ullman, asks, "is the wisdom of the crowd, actually a lie?"
A self-confessed "humanistic softie," Jaron Lanier is fighting to wrest control of technology from the "ascendant tribe" of technologists who believe
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By Shoq, on February 6, 2010, at 1:29 pm
This is the very essay I was going to try and tackle this week. These fine folks have done a superb job of writing it for me. You must read it, and then see my note that follows:
How To Do Effective Political Activism: What Always Worked And What Never Did — by Peterson
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By Shoq, on January 23, 2010, at 5:56 pm
I’m about to tweet this idea. I’m interested in anyone’s comments.
Concept: Just 3-5 million infrastructurally-vital liberals, all moved to just 1 or 2 states, driving them hyper-blue. #p2
By Shoq, on January 19, 2010, at 9:26 am
I missed "Why this Decade Sucked," by Ed Edroso, back in December. Wish I hadn't. While it's over the top in spots, by and large, it's spot on, and reminds me of Norman Solomon's words in the mid 90s, when he quite rightly warned that the Internet would empower the status quo, while
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By Shoq, on January 11, 2010, at 8:37 am
I have created or heavily promoted several tags and codes that are in everyday use on Twitter, so I get asked a lot. "what does this or that mean?" I've listed the common ones below to save me some time and keystrokes in the future. If I've left out anything obvious that I use often,
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By Shoq, on January 2, 2010, at 9:28 am
In "Why Twitter Will Endure," New York Time's education and media czar, David Carr, writes perhaps the best overall description of Twitter and its overall value to civilization, better than anyone I've read in quite awhile. It's still not going to help your grandma understand Twitter, but it may help any of your
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By Shoq, on December 31, 2009, at 12:53 am
What is the BL code?
A proposed Message Code for Twitter and any social network.
The BL code means "broken link." It tells someone that a link they sent out was defective.
Geekly speaking, it should be "resource," but I won't get into why. I think the average Twitter user can remember,
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