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    • I am data; politicians micro-target me to get elected

      Posted by VincebusEruptum from Scholarsandrogues

      To our presidential candidates, I am not a human being: I am a set of data points, one of about 168 million sets of data points collected by both the Democratic and Republican national committees. Presidential candidates will base their direct-mail, push-poll, robo-call and volunteers-knocking-on-my-door messages on computerized analyses of me as data. I will be micro-targeted by candidates’ campaign organizations for the sole purpose of producing a vote...

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      3 Guys in a Garage Launches $100 Challenge for Investor Leads

      Posted by colinmcnab

      A digital media incubator called 3 Guys in a Garage has launched an innovative social networking challenge to gain leads to potential investors. It’s banking on the power of social networks and word-of-mouth to finance its new media ideas. “Here is a way for you to get involved as a virtual venture capitalist, by using your networks to help us find investors. We’ll give $100 for each referral that leads to investment. Our goal is 100 referrals that lead to $500,000 investment.”

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    • Big Media Allies With '3 Guys in a Garage'

      Posted by colinmcnab

      "3 Guys In A Garage is doing joint ventures with traditional media companies to launch consumer Internet products within six months for $500,000 or less. Big Media needs the innovative ideas and faster speed-to-market that we have, and we need the funding and marketing resources that they have. So, it makes sense to collaborate."

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    • Online security and other e-tailing lies

      Posted by SoxFirst

      A study of the biggest internet retailers shows that they do nothing to protect consumer information. They track IP addresses, drop cookies into customers' computers, compile usage information and share personal information and sell information to third-party marketers.

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    gharibtirdad comments on:

    Woman indicted in fatal MySpace hoax on girl

    Dear friends i agree totally with our great man US Attorney Thomas OBrien about any harassment of  anykind to another person especially a young person in My Space we have an excellent Attorney, very sincerlly Tirdad Gharib

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    5:28 am 5/18/08
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    Jeff comments on:

    Firefox 3 Beta 3 Brings a New Browsing Interface

    I am excited for it – but I wish they would certify plug-ins a bit faster as they go along.

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    3:47 pm 2/14/08
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    Jwgardner comments on:

    Firefox 3 Beta 3 Brings a New Browsing Interface

    Maybe it’s the “resource hog” property of Firefox that has kept me away: my system seems alllergic to FF, as the whole thing overheats and shuts down within seconds of the program being accessed.

    Perhaps I should try Beta 3, and see what happens.

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    11:59 am 2/14/08
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    Jwgardner comments on:

    Story | Victoria Times Colonist | Canadians urged to post health-care violations to new website

    Given all the press given to various forms of essentially-universal health care that Democratic candidates for the U.S. presidency currently propose, I thought this was very topical. In Canada there are constant threats to our version of universal care/Medicare at all levels – from encroaching privatization from U.S. owned clinics (which, thanks to NAFTA, we can’t remove despite their violation of the Canada Health Act) to extra payments for simple medical equiptment.

    This particular story has to do with efforts to deal with that smaller issue, of course. It’s easier to deal with, though, being strictly illegal. Blocking private care alternatives is a slightly more thorny human rights issue.

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    2:01 pm 2/04/08
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    seefood comments on:

    3 Guys in a Garage Launches $100 Challenge for Investor Leads

    “a solid Benjamin”?...sounds like a ponzi scheme.

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    9:58 am 1/23/08
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    Jeff comments on:

    LiveJournal Says Users are Responsible for Content of Links

    I think all they care about is Vox. TypePad has had sparse updates since the Vox launch

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    8:17 am 9/01/07
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    Jeff comments on:

    AT&T Rigs Net Neutrality Study

    Sad to see my alma mater RPI go for this. Not surprising though.

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    5:00 pm 7/05/07
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