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Mr Angry Internet Man Explains

October 29, 2008

From the Merriam Webster entry: Main Entry: re·cid·i·vist Pronunciation: -vist Function: noun Etymology: French récidiviste, from récidiver to relapse, from Middle French, from Medieval Latin recidivare, from Latin recidivus recurring, from recidere to fall back, from re- + cadere to fall Earlier this evening, I made what some might describe as an immoderate comment on Twitter. To whit, when my [...]

Social news not the same as ‘the news’

July 7, 2006

Just a quickie update. Jason Calacanis of Weblogs Inc. wrote his own take on social news sites and crowd behaviour therein back in March. He explains how untrue stories with a catchy title can very easily become widely disseminated. On the plus side, though, having thousands of editors also means that these stories are exposed [...]