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I’m going to pick on FriendFeed in this post because I believe it is the nearest thing to Shangri-La for mob justice enthusiasts. I explain why below. But first I want to compare FriendFeed to Syphilis, which may have been the “perfect” disease when it first hit Europe in the 15th century. Today Syphilis takes years to kill its victims and is easily treated with antibiotics. But back in the early 1500′s it led to certain death within months. Consider the surprising evolution of syphilis. http://techcrunch.com/2009/06/28/friendfeeed-syphilis-and-the-perfection-of-online-mobs/ FriendFeed, Syphilis And The Perfection Of Online Mobs

Is Google Making Us Stupid? Change in cognitive reading due to t http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2008/07/is-google-making-us-stupid/6868/ Anecdotes alone don’t prove much. And we still await the long-term neurological and psychological experiments that will provide a definitive picture of how Internet use affects cognition. But a recently published study of online research habits , conducted by scholars from University College London, suggests that we may well be in the midst of a sea change in the way we read and think.

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