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The state of blogging [Distractions]

This from-the-archives Hugh MacLeod comic pulled 1,181 diggs this morning. Timeless, Hugh, timeless. ...

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Valleywag — November 24

Bill Gates in Sweden for dirty old man Simonyi's wedding []

Microsoft billionaire Charles Simonyi sure likes to live large. He's a space tourist! He dates Martha Stewart! No wait, 60-year-old Simonyi is now marrying 28-year-old Swedish socialite Lisa Persdotter! Let me guess: You don't want a photo of him. You want a photo of her. Here you go... (Photo o...

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Valleywag — November 24

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Can you really rent-a-coder? [Tim The IT Guy]

Electronic Arts recently shut down Blueprint, a strategic project to enable the company to develop more software without onsite programmers. Coding Horror blogger Jeff Atwood is a professional programmer who lives in Berkeley. That makes him biased against cheap-outsourced-programer sites like Gu...

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Valleywag — November 24

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Google to lay off 10,000? [Rumormonger]

"Up to 10,000 jobs could be on the chopping block according to sources," writes Daya Baran. Can I just say it? No. Google will not dump 10,000 of its roughly 30,000 workforce. "Sources" are wrong, although Baran's tales of Google shuffling its so-called temporary employees aro...

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Valleywag — November 24

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Twitter ad system lets you shill automatically [We Read Twitter So You Don't Have To]

One reason a lot of Twitterholics love Twitter is that there are no advertisements to interrupt the first-person human communication. Now TechCrunch editor Michael Arrington has found a German startup, Be-A-Magpie, that offers to pay Twitterers to mix ads into their status updates. The service se...

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Valleywag — November 24

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