- Tuesday, March 16, 2010, 14:15
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Julia Allison will teach you "
How to Become an Internet Celebrity" at
Learning Annex for $45, way less than
Parson's protocelebrity program. But don't expect financial advice: Amid
turnover at her
startup, Allison is considering applying to Stanford ...
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- Tuesday, March 16, 2010, 12:58
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AOL hired an army of underemployed music lovers to interview bands at South by Southwest. But the citizen journalists, paid $50 per story, are missing their deadlines, so AOL sent a panicked mass email (below).
AOL's Seed division is trying to interview every single one of the 2,000 bands performing at SXSW via its computer-dispatched army of freelancers. At a company ...
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- Tuesday, March 16, 2010, 11:27
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On January 1st, Autoblog/Engadget/Mahalo founder Jason Calacanis
announced he'd give away one still-imaginary Tesla sedan if his newly-created Twitter account got more followers than
Ashton Kutcher. He failed miserably. Also, he probably never planned to give the car away. Update!
Update: Jason's responded! Apparently he hates Ray with a vengeance:
well @raywert writes for jalopsuck which will never be as ...
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- Monday, March 15, 2010, 20:08
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Hiroko Tabuchi took New York Times transparency to new levels; Mike Sampson found big trouble in little Austin; and
Anthony Ha discovered a door was closed to him. Travel troubled the Twitterati.
The New York Times's ...
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- Monday, March 15, 2010, 17:03
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The geeks at South by Southwest look docile, but online they turn against mutual enemies with ruthless efficiency. This year's victim:
Umair Haque, the Harvard wonk whose interview with Twitter's CEO just turned into a virtual stoning.
South by Southwest is becoming infamous for such rebellions. The Austin internet conference's geeky audience ...
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- Monday, March 15, 2010, 15:33
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Everyone
expected Twitter to unveil an advertising strategy at the South by Southwest conference in Austin today; instead, the microblogging startup
plotted further media domination Actual revenue is "
going to take experimentation." Oy: That's a
billion-dollar company talking. (
Pic)
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- Monday, March 15, 2010, 12:32
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Carol Bartz must be getting lonely. First one of the Yahoo CEO's assistants
ditched her a for hipper chief executive.
And now her top salesperson is doing likewise — and Bartz learned about it by reading the news.
"Top money-maker" Joanna Bradford is leaving Yahoo for
infamous robo-news factory ...
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- Friday, March 12, 2010, 10:44
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Google's CEO went to Abu Dhabi this week and preached. He sermonized about Google's exceptional virtue — its indifference to profit and supreme trustworthiness. His speech should have been shocking. Except that delusional self-righteousness is now routine at Google.
Eric Schmidt's comments at the Abu Dhabi ...
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- Thursday, March 11, 2010, 19:44
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Alex Blagg is not going to improvise like some sort of monkey;
Lily Allen is not going to stand for your "fat whore" condolences; and
Nick Bilton is not particularly enjoying this week's ...
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- Thursday, March 11, 2010, 17:27
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