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A Glimpse of Google without News Corp.: No Big Loss

The media world is in a (relative) uproar over what the implications of News Corp. pulling its content off Google would be. But! A three-part Gawker investigation-type thing indicates the impact might be quite minimal for you, the consumer. Observe: The most popular story on WSJ.com today has bee...

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Valleywag — Before yesterday

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The Coming Search Engine Media Wars

News Corp, ever the online contrarian, is considering pulling all of its news content off of Google and doing an exclusive deal with Microsoft's Bing. For this, Rupert Murdoch would receive a pittance. Welcome to the future of paid media. For years, newspapers and other media companies have compl...

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Valleywag — Before yesterday

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Surf The Internet the Mostly Lower Case Way

Stop everything, The Internet: AOL is now Aol. Whether superimposed on a fish or a hand or just some swirly crap, this logo makes the bold statement: We can no longer afford capital letters. [Ad Age] ...

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Valleywag — 3 days ago

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What the Hell's Wrong with Gavin Newsom?

Besides his Patrick Bateman hair, obviously. The San Francisco mayor and obvious prick went into hiding after mysteriously quitting the governor's race, and his silence-breaking TV interview was a mess. So, like, you might assume that interviewer Hank Plante would ask about this mysterious absen...

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Valleywag — 3 days ago

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Wikipedia Gridlocked by Wikipedia Nerds

Wikipedia was probably pretty cool a few years back when you could just get a wild hair and immediately post up an article on The Artifacts, or whatever. But now it's run by a dead-ender Debbie Downer "deletionist" nerd army. The WSJ reports that the number of Wikipedia editors (real ed...

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Valleywag — 3 days ago

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Twitter-to-Book Phenomenon Reaches Bottom of the Barrel with Self-Publishing

Couldn't get a Twitter book deal like Nick Douglas, Twitterature, or business huckster Garyvee? Don't fret! Thanks to TweetBookz you don't even need a deal to see your precious 140-character musings on paper. Congrats! You're an author. The most annoying thing about TweetBookz isn't that it's spe...

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Valleywag — 3 days ago