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What Does It Mean To Care About The Grammys?

February 1, 2010
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What Does It Mean To Care About The Grammys?

Clearly, people are once again watching the telecast, even if one cannot be certain that most viewers ‘care’ about the popular artists and their music in the same way that they did in days gone by.
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Google leaving China?

January 13, 2010
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Google leaving China?

In a quiet blog post with major ramifications, Google announces that it is no longer willing to censor search results in China. What happens next?
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Google’s Offensively Bad Image Search

November 24, 2009
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Google’s Offensively Bad Image Search

If you did a Google image search this morning on “Michelle Obama,” you would’ve seen a horribly racist caricature of the First Lady depicted as part monkey.
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Unfriended!

November 18, 2009
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Unfriended!

New Oxford American Dictionary, it's over. No more status updates, no more shared photos - you're unfriended.
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Keeping an eye on “Copyright Watch”

November 16, 2009
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The beta version of Copyright Watch was launched recently. The site gives users an overview of national copyright law in various countries across the globe. Each entry on Copyright Watch gives a brief overview of the geographic location and borders of the country, whether the country is a member of supranational organizations like the...
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Meghan McCain vs. Andy Warhol

November 6, 2009
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For the curious internet user, copies of the buxom self-portrait Meghan McCain snapped to accompany her twitter post last week (which read, “my ‘spontaneous’ night in is my Andy Warhol biography and takeout....I'm getting old”) will forevermore be mere clicks away.
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