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My guest post on hypebot is up, about the R.E.M. web campaign. Part II tomorrow.

[From hypebot: An Insider's Look At The R.E.M. Web Campaign]

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I'm thinking about building for our next house, so this is a good blog to follow :)

[From Mike Davidson - I’m Launching a New Blog Today: “A House By The Park”]

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I made the backdrop animation in this clip!!!! :) And this one. Footage compiled from Hollowman.tv submissions.

[From YouTube - Oxegen 08- REM encore]

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You know you want to. Come on. Work in a place where we geek out on PHP one minute, and the next Randy Newman is performing in our conference room.

[From Director of Development | Warner Bros. Records | groups.drupal.org]

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Excuse me, but how is this exactly "globalization"?

[From Micro Persuasion: How Globalization Handed One Blogger a Big Scoop]

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I know Daring Fireball is sponsored by Drobo this week, but here's my caveat: we have a Drobo, and had a drive fail twice already, and Drobo wont' send us new ones. CDW sells Drobo's as a bundle, so they'll only send an entire new unit out, not a new drive. Beware.

[From Data Robotics, Inc.]

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"As always, the people, namely YOU, will be the judge of that."

Fucking hell. Mashable, here's a challenge to you guys; COVER SOMETHING WITH INSIGHT! Not a regurgitated product overview with something as lame as "OK, YOU DECIDE!" at the end. Aren't tech blogs supposed to cover things instead of copy pasting press releases? This is the worst kind of PR spam imaginable.

[From Social Networking AIR App SocialU Wants to Be Your Everything (Invites)]

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"Let's put the final nail in the coffin on the term `music video' and allow it to be something of the past because that's exactly what it is," said Stipe.

Here here! And another link to Ninetynights.com

[From Music video is reinvented on the Web]

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Lets not forget Zip2, which made Elon Musk a gazillionaire at the expense of newspapers failed dreams. Or lets not forget New Directions for News, the many spin-offs and absorptions of newspaper's online divisions, failed attempts at being a venture capitalist, and shall I continue? Newspapers had fiber coming into the newsrooms carrying real-time wire-photos from AP. What did they do with them? Sent them to an Autokon.

[From Death Of Print: 5 ways the newspapers botched the Web]

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Fred Durst looks like a plumper, a bit younger MIchael Stipe. Scary. Down to the hat and facial hair. I met Durst about 6 years ago. He was actually a nice guy. The End.

[From Fred Durst, family film director? Seems a longshot - Los Angeles Times]

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