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10 Reasons We All Want Brad Pitt And Angelina Jolie To Break Up

While Ian Undercover keeps us updated on the latest Brad/Angelina gossip, I’ll dive into the deeper psychological motivations we all have when evaluating the relationship.  Or I’ll make some jokes....

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Welcome To WordPress, Glenn Beck … The Image Of Flame Is A Powerful!

Glenn Beck has a news site, TheBlaze.com.  Unfortunately, he must have read my ‘Anatomy of a Smart Site‘ post.   Damn!  He’s using WordPress, has a focused message (hate?), and is socially integrated....

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What did AOL buy? Why TechCrunch was an attractive target.

AOL announced their purchase of TechCrunch today.  That’s big news.  What made this technology news site so attractive?  Let’s look: Great content TechCrunch publishes great content.  They are the...

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Nope, StumbleUpon Is Not Bigger Than Facebook, Sorry StatCounter

If you believe StatCounter (and probably StumbleUpon as well), StumbleUpon drives more traffic to external sites than Facebook. According to this blog, “StatCounter is measuring the share of traffic...

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What’s My Media Empire Worth?

I wrote about AOL’s acquisition of TechCrunch a few months ago.  This week, AOL bought the Huffington Post for the same reasons — great, niche content with low(ish) overhead.  Instead of WordPress,...

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Can Web Design Be Great? Or Can It Only Be Terrible? #gawkerfail

Gawker’s redesign has me thinking about website design.  I hate their new look.  It’s terrible.  I dislike it so much, I’m not going to even link to their site.  Maybe it caters to tablets, but that’s...

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Beat the New York Times Paywall with the Stop Button

I don’t read the New York Times much.  I like their Chrome web app, but I just don’t always dig their content.  It’s just a little oddly pretentious.  (If I want pretension, I’ll read The Economist.)...

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The White iPhone 4 is Obama’s Birth Certificate

For the last year, it’s been a lot of fun to watch how Apple has treated the white iPhone 4.  I’m a cynic, but it seemed like anytime Apple was getting a little too much negative press, the white...

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I was wrong: EVERYBODY* wants an iPhone 4S

Well, I was wrong. Pretty, pretty, pretty wrong. Turns out everybody* wants to buy a new iPhone, even people that just bought one, their grandmothers, their newborns … everybody*. And the oddest thing?...

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@techcrunch Should Have Listened To Me In 2011

Wow, time flies. I wrote about TechCrunch’s switch to Facebook comments back in 2011. Back then, I said: If I was building a blog for my mother, I’d use Facebook Comments.  You’re TechCrunch — be...

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Free Content? Nope. The Internet Revolution Is Free Distribution.

Arianna Huffington was profiled in Newsweek recently. A lot was said about free content – the Huffington Post supposedly has 6,000 unpaid bloggers (I would bet that they are overwhelmingly inactive)....

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