Why can’t Google, which likes to see itself as a “Don’t Be Evil” benevolent force in society, just write us a big check for using our stories, so we can keep checks and balances alive and continue to provide the search engine with our stories? After all, Schmidt acknowledges that a lot of what’s on the Internet is “a sewer.” He told me people don’t come to Google for “crap,” but for what’s “useful.” | | | | | Wilford Brimley in "Absence of Malice" (1981) (Columbia Pictures) | | | | |  | “Why can’t Google, which likes to see itself as a “Don’t Be Evil” benevolent force in society, just write us a big check for using our stories, so we can keep checks and balances alive and continue to provide the search engine with our stories? After all, Schmidt acknowledges that a lot of what’s on the Internet is “a sewer.” He told me people don’t come to Google for “crap,” but for what’s “useful.””
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 | The Economist |
| Democracy was the most successful political idea of the 20th century. Why has it run into trouble, and what can be done to revive it? | | |
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 | The New York Times |
| When a wealthy businessman set out to divorce his wife, their fortune vanished. The quest to find it would reveal the depths of an offshore financial system bigger than the U.S. economy. | | |
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 | Fortune Magazine |
| With the launch today of her new company, Thrive Global, Arianna Huffington is hoping to turn sleeping well into the corporate world’s most celebrated productivity tool. | | |
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 | The Daily Beast |
| The ‘Daily Show’ host challenges his conservative crush from The Blaze on her irrational hatred of Black Lives Matter. | | |
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 | ESPN.com |
| How did a boring Nintendo game from 1987 become the most coveted cartridge ever? It's a bit of a mystery. | | |
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 | The Guardian |
| For 25 years, invoking this vague and ever-shifting nemesis has been a favourite tactic of the right -- and Donald Trump’s victory is its greatest triumph. | | |
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 | FiveThirtyEight |
| My fascination with internet comments began as exasperation. I’d just written a short article that began with a quote from the movie “Blazing Saddles”: “Badges? We don’t need no stinkin’ badges!” After the story published, I quickly heard from readers explaining that, actually, the quote was originally from an earlier movie, “The Treasure of the Sierra Madre.” | | |
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 | 3:AM Magazine |
| Before Fela Anikulapo-Kuti's adoption by a growing number of hip hop stars, Stevie Wonder called him "an incredible pioneer" to whom the music world is much indebted. Long before he passed on, Miles Davis regarded him as the future of music. Mos Def, on his part, likens him to Bob Marley, Rick James, ODB, Huey Newton and Duke Ellington. | | |
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 | The Verge |
| You’re a media company now, Facebook. Behave like one. | | |
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 | The Atlantic |
| For a 10-year-old child with autism, a Playmobil doll is a communicative, social, and emotional lifeline. | | |
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| The New York Times |
| New research tries to spot the collapse of liberal democracies before they happen, and it suggests that Western democracy may be seriously ill. | | |
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 | Salon |
| Bannon is being dangerously normalized by The Boston Globe and New York Times, who call thia probing journalism | | |
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 | Core77 |
| "These are not technology problems. These are design problems" | | |
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 | Medium |
| The past 30 years have set the stage for technological and cultural change at an unprecedented scale. The rise of Personal Computing, Internet as well as Smartphones have completely redefined the way we interact with our world as well as each other - today, over 99.9% of the world's information is stored digitally and half of the world's' population is already part of the internet, a figure which is expected to near 100% by 2020. | | |
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 | Synchblog |
| Context awareness can transform the creative process, and generate new revenue streams and business models for the music industry. | | |
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 | Forbes |
| Opendoor bids for houses sight unseen and buys them fast. Sellers can get a fair price in cash for their property in as little as three days. The idea is already upending real estate markets in the Southwest--and it's set to go national. | | |
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 | Fact Magazine |
| FACT's Chris Kelly speaks to Dawn Richard, Ash Koosha and more to discover how VR might shape the music experience in 2017 and beyond. | | |
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 | Stanford Graduate School of Business |
| The former CEO of eBay encourages students to build a life outside of work and find creative solutions to problems. | | |
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 | Digital TV Europe |
| A large broadcasting symposium will be held in New York at the beginning of next month, but the state of TV drama, the rise of Netflix or the impact of mega-mergers on the media landscape are unlikely to be mentioned. | | |
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 | Dazed Digital |
| A new exhibition, North: Identity, Photography and Fashion, will look at the region’s enormous influence on fashion and visual culture - here, its curators tell us more | | |
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 | Vanity Fair |
| After the election of a president who waged, in his words, an “outright assault on the press,” the paper’s executive editor delivered words of advice for reporters when he received the Hitchens Prize in New York on Monday (Nov 28). | | |
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 | Mashable |
| Now that the smoke has cleared, what's next? | | |
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