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Cascade, developed in the Times R&D Lab by Jer Thorp and UCLA prof Mark Hansen, is a 3-D way of visualizing how stories spread across Twitter. More @ http://www.fastcodesign.com/1663694/infographic-of-the-day-3-d-model-unlocks-secrets-of-twitterverse-video

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Exclusive: Facebook investors look for exits →

soupsoup: Lauren Tara LaCapra and Jennifer Saba at Reuters A group of Facebook shareholders is seeking to offload $1 billion worth of shares on the secondary market, a sale that would value the company at more than $70 billion, according to five sources with direct knowledge of the situation.

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The Copy Editor: Tumblr and link attribution →

theatlantic: wnyc: motherjones: kateoplis: thepoliticalnotebook: copyeditor: I’m reading Anthony DeRosa’s post again on how some traditional media companies refuse to enter into the link economy. The practice is also prevalent here in Tumblr, it seems. Photos and articles are sometimes posted sans attribution or links to the sources. Other Tumblr users, meanwhile, delete the link...

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Muslim Actress Stirs Controversy Posing for... →

Sila Sahin, a 25-year-old Turkish German living in Berlin, had until now been regarded as a glowing example of how a modern Muslim girl should behave in a multicultural society. A successful actress starring in German television soap opera Good Times, Bad Times, she pleased her many fans and made her Turkish family proud. But her latest move has shocked some of those fans, and enraged those...

Apr 26th

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Freakon - Daily Deals for the Adult Products... →

Apr 26th

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Ani-Gifs cross over into new TV spots for MTV starring Gif God More http://liveanduncensored.com/2011/04/gifs-gone-wild.html

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officialbeastieboys: Good people, unfortunately due to circumstances beyond our control, the “clean” version of our new album, The Hot Sauce Committee pt 2 has leaked. So as a hostile and retaliatory measure with great hubris we are making the full explicit aka filthy dirty nasty version available for streaming on our site. We hope this brings much happiness, hugs, and harmony. Enjoy Kikoos for...

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Facebook Launches Its Group Buying Service, Takes... →

Facebook is launching its widely anticipated group buying service called Deals today. It was long believed that Facebook would do something like this, and it puts it in direct competition with Groupon and LivingSocial. Deals is launching in five test cities: Atlanta, Austin, Dallas, San Diego and San Francisco. Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-deals-launch-2011-4 Sign up...

Apr 26th

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Astonishing 360 panoramic from Brooklyn Bridge at dusk

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“The Internet will get you through times of no money better than money will get...”

– adapted from Anne Herbert

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Tesla CEO Says He'll Put Humans on Mars Within the... →

“I want SpaceX to help make life multi-planetary. I’d like to see a self-sustaining base on Mars,” Musk said in the interview, most of which focused on Tesla. “…We want to be the shipping company that brought people from Europe to America or the Union-Pacific Railroad. Our goal is to facilitate the transfer of people and cargo to other planets.” - Wow, this is a pretty big idea. When reading...

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Tweets from Tahrir

I heard an interview about the new book Tweets from Tahrir. I don’t usually buy blogs-to-books type projects, but I was won over by this effort. The new book Tweets From Tahrir is a collection of tweets sent from the epicenter of Egypt’s revolution. It tells a unique story of the popular uprising that ended Hosni Mubarak’s reign. Nadia Idle is one of the book’s editors. She...

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Egyptian blogger + activist Mona Seif gives the most eloquent and clear telling of the role of social media within the media landscape that I’ve heard to date — starting at 7:40 into the audio clip.

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Why Amazon EC2's Titanic went down →

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — This was never supposed to happen. Amazon Web Services is the Titanic of cloud hosting, designed with backups to the backups’ backups that prevent hosted websites and applications from failing. Yet, like the famous ocean liner, Amazon’s cloud crashed this week, taking with it Reddit, Quora, FourSquare, Hootsuite, parts of the New York Times, ProPublica...

Apr 22nd

Journalists learn what works (& doesn’t work) on... →

futurejournalismproject: Today we’re going meta with a Tumblr love fest: The Copy Editor writes for Poynter Institute and interviews me, SoupSoup, Producer Matthew, Josh Sternberg and Mark Dodge Medlin: As more journalists use Tumblr, they’re starting to see how it can help them engage with users and reach new audiences. For insights, I interviewed journalists via email about what’s working...

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Mastercard Priceless Paper Craft Music Campaign

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