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And the Prize for the Worst (Best) Dictator Fan Website Goes To…

This guy: Seriously, you really have to visit it yourself, the screenshot doesn’t do the animated gifs justice. Bonus: Dude lists his mobile number on his public CV. Semi-related honorable mention (because it isn’t deserving of its own post) goes to… Syrian Ambassador to China (and blogger) Imad Moustapha for his daring use of MS […]

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You Can’t Take It With You

Lately I have strange dreams of death. In each one, someone close to me (someone different each time) dies and I’m left to sort out the mess. For a self-described packrat, this is a nightmare perhaps worse than death itself as I, grieving, am forced to sort through the ashes of what remains. In real […]

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On Clay Shirky’s Bread and Digital Dualism

In the New York Times, a piece that caught my eye–in a “an article about Clay Shirky making bread? Must be a slow news day” sort of way–has sparked an interesting conversation elsewhere and caused me to reflect a little on the idea of what Zeynep Tufekci calls “digital dualism” – the idea that online […]