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Perfectly Reasonable People are Free to Doubt the Symptoms
by noteworthy at 7:36 am EST, Jan 10, 2011

Clay Shirky:

Bad discourse isn't a behavior problem, it's a design problem.

Douglas Rushkoff:

We are witnessing the beginning of the end of Facebook. These aren't the symptoms of a company that is winning, but one that is cashing out.


Matt Taibbi:

If America is now circling the drain, Goldman Sachs has found a way to be that drain.

Jeff Atwood:

I've been told many times that Google isn't a monopoly, but they apparently play one on the internet. You are perfectly free to switch to whichever non-viable alternative web search engine you want at any time. Just breathe in that sweet freedom, folks.

[But] Google, the once essential tool, is somehow losing its edge. Is the next generation of search destined to be less algorithmic and more social?

Marco Arment:

I doubt we'll see real progress. Instead, I expect Google's unwillingness to address this issue to create a critical-mass demand -- and hopefully, then, a supply -- of good content, reference information, and product recommendations.

Declan McCullagh:

Howard Schmidt stressed today that anonymity and pseudonymity will remain possible on the Internet. "I don't have to get a credential if I don't want to," he said.

Joel Rosenblatt:

Apple was accused in a lawsuit of allowing applications for those devices to transmit users' personal information to advertising networks without customers' consent.

Apple iPhones and iPads are set with a Unique Device Identifier, or UDID, which can't be blocked by users, according to the complaint.


Clarence W. Dupnik, the Pima County sheriff:


Jerry Weinberger:


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