December 2011
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Songs With a Brand Name →
productdisplacement: Shameless self-promotion… Please follow Songs With A Brand Name … where we explore examples of brand dropping in music.    
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CNN's iReport Produces Controversy, Llama Photos |... →
CNN recently laid off at least 50 staff, including several photojournalists, in favor of affiliate contributions and iReport — CNN’s user-generated content department which does not pay users for their submissions. … The decision is a result of a three-year analysis by CNN that essentially concluded that since consumer cameras are getting better and people are uploading up-to-the-minute...
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Why drones aren't game-changers - U.S. Military -... →
An analysis of official Air Force data conducted by TomDispatch indicates that its drones crashed in spectacular fashion no less than 13 times in 2011, including that May 5th crash in Kandahar. … All but two of the incidents involved the MQ-1 [Predator] model…. In 2010, there were seven major drone mishaps, all but one involving Predators; in 2009, there were 11. In other...
Dec 22nd
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For the First Time, Predator Drones Participate in... →
A somewhat strange story emerged yesterday involving an extremist antigovernment group, a North Dakota sheriff’s office, and six missing cows, but there’s a much larger story behind this brief legal tangle between local law enforcement and the Brossart family of Nelson Country. When Alex, Thomas and Jacob Brossart were arrested on their farm back in June after allegedly chasing the local...
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Naming our kids like products and our products... →
Laura Wattenberg of The Baby Name Wizard has announced 2011’s Name of the Year. And the winner is… Siri. Whereas in the past, names were typically chosen with an eye toward personal significance (a baby was named after a grandparent, say), today’s parents increasingly focus on the public image projected by the name. Now, as companies introduce technologies that function like...
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Gifts and algorithms →
Marginal Utility (Rob Horning) posts about “algorithmic cures for gift anxiety.” Pointing to this story about a Walmart tool called Shopycat, which I gather scrapes social media from your friends to tell you what they want for Christmas (or whatever), he observes:  I’m sure this should probably be hailed as an economistic victory against the deadweight loss of Christmas. More people...
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