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The Hand That Controls the Sock Puppet Could Get Slapped - New York Times

eric — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 18:30:15 GMT

If you're gonna post to discussion boards as a CEO, you'd best be forthright about who you are.

BTW, how stupid and vane do you have to be to post under an assumed identity about yourself and make comments like "I think his hair looks cute"?

Quoted: A handful of prominent individuals have been caught creating fake online identities to praise, defend or create the illusion of support for themselves or their companies.

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Geek to Live: Instant, no-overhead blog with Tumblr - Lifehacker

eric — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 15:18:07 GMT

A new company trying their hand at reducing the overhead in running a blog and making posts. They call it a tumblelog. Dumb name,

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Exclusive: Is Spotplex a Better Digg?

eric — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 17:20:51 GMT

I like the idea of Spotplex - instead of doing voted news like DIgg, they allow users to put a piece of code into their templates and then the track clicks. Popular stories make their homepages inan automated, hopefully less gamey, way.

Quoted: A new site called Spotplex launched today that arguably sorts news in a better way than Digg does. I've been testing the service ...

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Susan Crawford blog :: The self-owned internet (II)

eric — Tue, 24 Jan 2006 16:36:48 GMT

I had never read this blog before but I was pointed here by Om Malik's blog. This is a post on the "self-owned internet" and its "ownership." My favorite quote is below:

Quoted: The relationship between the notes, rather than the notes themselves, is powerful in open networks. It is these relationships that create value.

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AlterNet: Blogs: Start Making Sense: Women outnumber men online; Amazon adds author blogs...

eric — Fri, 30 Dec 2005 22:33:22 GMT

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