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Time Machines: Casio gets smart at CES 2000
source: Engadget
Wow has it been 14 years already? I had (have) one of these.
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Netflix's War on Mass Culture
source: New Republic
source: New Republic
Online, people are far more loyal to their interests and obsessions than an externally imposed schedule. While they may end up seeing the same stuff as other viewers, it happens incrementally, through recommendation algorithms and personal endorsements relayed over Twitter feeds, Facebook posts, and e-mails. New content is like snowfall, some of it melting away, some of it sticking and gradually accumulating.
Lessons from journalism startup Matter: Paywalls make growing readership difficult
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Out of step with the rhythms of the web
Johnson said the paywall also reduced Matter’s visibility on the web, and hence its ability to attract new readers, because few places wanted to link to or syndicate content that was going to be behind a hard paywall. As he described it: "It turns out that other outlets — from major news outlets to solo expert bloggers, and everywhere in between — are pretty reticent to write about, syndicate, or even link to, paywalled material."
Its A Wonderful Life, For A Few Of Us
source: TechCrunch
source: TechCrunch
This is not just a matter of having insecure employment, of being in jobs of limited duration and with minimal labour protection, although all this is widespread. It is being in a status that offers no sense of career, no sense of secure occupational identity and few, if any, entitlements to the state and enterprise benefits that several generations … had come to expect as their due.
Douglas Rushkoff - Blog - CNN: Google Sees No Evil
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Google motto 2004: Don't be evil
Google motto 2010: Evil is tricky to define
Google motto 2013: We make military robots

source: Engadget
Wow has it been 14 years already? I had (have) one of these.
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