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“Number Of Users Who Actually Enjoy Facebook Down To 4<\/a>”<\/p>\n

“In order to be profitable, it is highly likely that Twitter can only get more annoying, Pandora can only get more interrupt-y, Tumblr can only get more cluttered, Facebook can only get more devious<\/a>”<\/p>\n

“Grindr officially announces its plan to mobilize gay men as a political bloc in the 2012 elections<\/a>”<\/p>\n

“I can\u2019t put Twitter or the little blue bird in jail, so the only way to punish is monetarily<\/a>”<\/p>\n

“About four grams of DNA theoretically could store the digital data humankind creates in one year<\/a>”<\/p>\n

“Google Glass is changing the implicit social contract with everyone in his or her field of view<\/a>”<\/p>\n

“Having opened up a chasm between the informational and material, we’re rapidly trying to close it<\/a>”<\/p>\n

“Imagine being excited to see what the Internet looks and feels like in a new town<\/a>”<\/p>\n

“remote sensing and screen culture might displace today\u2019s commonplace demand for airbuses<\/a>”<\/p>\n

“[Academics] quickly devolve into a game of Who\u2019s The Best Luddite. And it is most definitely about hierarchy & power<\/a>”<\/p>\n

“The site, just a few weeks old and still in beta, consists entirely of videos uploaded by real people having what might be called nonperformance-like sex<\/a>”<\/p>\n

“human beings have not always tried to make sense of emotions through numbers<\/a>”<\/p>\n

“the hate-mongers who made this video and those who use the provocation as a pretext to kill are in a symbiotic, mutually reinforcing relationship<\/a>”<\/p>\n

“it appears that identity-based search results could be nothing more than old bigotry packaged in new media<\/a>” [pdf]<\/p>\n

Follow Nathan on Twitter: @nathanjurgenson<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n