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“In Education Your Value Depends on Other People Failing.”
PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel believes that the housing bubble has been replaced by another market set to burst: higher education. (via @rachelannyes)
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Danya Glabau’s Tech Links
The Vatican likes hackers now, because they make things? Who are they, Hannah Arendt? That’s a far cry from the Pope Benedict XVI’s early writings that say (among other things, obviously) that computer users are living in an alternate reality. Rumors…
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Losing Your Job to HuffPo
“In the end, 20 percent of AOL’s in-house workforce was canned and nearly every editorial staffer, including my own editor with whom I’d worked every day for two years, was shown the door. The people I knew inside AOL told…
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Erin Rose’s Tech Links
Google employees testified today that giving private companies, as well as the government, the power to censor search results is an awful idea. Duh. What is Congress thinking? Ah, hypocrisy. Apple’s new iAd app violates its own app guidelines. Microsoft and…
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Erin Rose’s Tech Links
The vote on whether Twitter and other SF tech companies will get their desired tax break to stay in town is today. Google & Facebook are taking the French government to court over its privacy laws. The Anonymous hacker group…
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Danya Glabau’s Tech Links
Microsoft is gearing up to take an anti-competition complaint against Google to the European Commission. Google’s monopolistic search practices, they’re claiming, prevented the growth of their Bing search engine. Speaking of Google, how would you like a Google smartphone app…
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Online Politics
“So what happens here is that we have a normative understanding that we should treat [the web] like public space—that you should have rights to speak, that no one should constrain your rights—but then you discover that, basically, you’re holding…
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Erin Rose’s Tech Links
The +1 button: Google’s answer to the facebook like button, ‘cept it’ll actually influence your search results. Drama: Paul Allen talks about the early days of Microsoft in his new memoir … and claims that Bill Gates schemed to take…
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Danya Glabau’s Tech Links
Meme alert: The @BronxZoosCobra is making waves on the internet after a real cobra from the real Bronx Zoo went missing. MIT has designed an artificial “leaf” that produces energy from sunlight and water. Tweeting has been deemed not broadcasting…
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NY Times Rape Reporting, Redux
In other words: clothing, age, behavior—none of those things have the slightest significance to what was done to this child.
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Erin Rose’s Tech Links
Multi-billion dollar valuations of facebook, Groupon and others have led some to ask: Are we in the middle of another, potentially destructive tech bubble? Some foreign political activists have recently run afoul of social networking sites’ rules while documenting struggles…
