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MG Siegler, you owe the hungry an apology
I’m pissed off right now. MG Siegler, currently a writer over at well-known Web2.0 news site TechCrunch, has decided to use people who rely on food assistance as ammunition for a poorly researched and certainly misguided attack on Microsoft. And as someone who has had to rely on the services of food banks in the past just to have enough to eat, I am personally insulted by the gall and brazenness of MG’s attack.
First Scientology, now Ahmadinejad
Anonymous strikes again! Once again, some anon has created a warning video directed at an enemy of Anonymous and stuck it up on YouTube. This time, the enemy is not Scientology but rather Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, whose government is currently cracking down on pro-democracy protests and killing people who only want freedom and fair elections.
What's missing from the social web?
What's missing from the social web? The ability to just hang out and throw back a few. Really. The missing element from the new, social media driven internet is quite ironically the ability to socialize with people directly, rather than mediated through various services online. And why is this important? Because no matter how much we can expand our social lives online, what matters most is our social lives offline.
