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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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"Cloud computing is liberating people from their computers."

[From Micro Persuasion: Cloud Computing's Impact on Digital Marketing]

More puffery (hah) from PR about Cloud Computing. Last time I checked, Cloud Computing wasn't new, smartphones are computers and its not liberating me from anything. Stop the hype on this shit. Its tiresome.

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Patronage is not a new thing in art. Go get some experimental films of the 70's, or experimental art works that included music at the same time (John Cage, even Brian Eno, etc) and take a look at the credits about who paid for the work. Everyone is so ingrained in one structure for how things should work, the broader picture both current and historical is much more interesting. And for the record, I was talking about art, not music in that post. About how its hard to value music when the value of art in other forms (visual, performance, etc) is so diminished in the nanny/teach-for-testing/tabloid state we live in. As a former art student I find that depressing.

[From Muxtape gets shut down. Pandora might get shut down. Everyone is pissed off. A call for patronage. » VentureBeat]

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This is by far one of my favorite films ever made. If anyone out there reading this has any interest in formal vs. mechanized aesthetics, this film is for you. The perfect play on the environment/nature with the mechanic. The film is much longer than this clip and is very hypnotic in full, especially on a big screen.

[From Media Art Net | Snow, Michael: The Central Region]

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Kanye West just had himself elevated in my admiration gradient. Thanks for linking to what is an awesome video sir.

[From kanYe West : Blog]

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Not to join the chorus: but the Internet kind of renders "spoilers" meaningless, especially as related to artificially imposed time-zone restrictions. TechCrunch just wanted some traffic. Poor techcrunch.

[From CNN Fails To Include Spoiler Alert In Tweets, Ruins Olympics]

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