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"All these increases in openness and honesty can only be a good thing but as Lindsay found out to her cost, the new internet can get you sacked, too. Only when society as a whole works out what to do with social media will these websites become profitable, and truly essential."

"It's a grim milestone – more than 200 soldiers have died in Afghanistan. The personal stories behind each loss are barely heard, but trawl the internet and there are any number of memorials dedicated to the fallen."

All about how hard it is to disappear, change identities. Not just a technological and social challenge, a massive strain psychologically also, it turns out….

"In this report, we examine 1,860,427 tweets about Jackson’s death in order to test various methods of sentiment analysis and gain insights into how people express emotion on Twitter."

"[US] Telecoms operators are seeing customers abandon landlines at a rate of 700,000 per month. Some analysts now estimate that 25% of households in America rely entirely on mobile phones (or cellphones, as Americans call them)—a share that could double within the next three years. If the decline of the landline continues at its current rate, the last cord will be cut sometime in 2025."

A history of PowerPoint in slide form, naturally…

Interesting looking creative and production agency.

"Most importantly: it's everyone's fault, from the editor's desk to the newsroom."