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An absolute tour de force performance. It seems as if the Daily Show is now trying to win an additional dramatic Emmy to add to its award heap.
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Professional skeptic and media rabblerouser, Bill Maher, willfully engaged the taboo this week when he expressed his doubts about the Swine Flu vaccine. Not surprisingly, his panelists reacted as if he suggested they eat a small child, live on set.
This horrifically awesome video comes to us from the surely now defunct, America’s Value Network.
President Obama has elected to not meet with the Dalai Lama while the Tibetan leader is in Washington accepting the first Lantos Human Rights Prize.
Here’s some interesting analysis from English language Russian broadcast, Russia today:
Here’s your newest Mep video, an admittedly crude social networking parody called “OMG Facebook Party!”
Digg.com is one of the largest websites on the planet. Like many of its competitors in the social media arena, it doesn’t purport to create or provide anything of substance. Digg’s value comes in the community that it organizes and speaks for. In Digg’s case, that community’s function is to vote for the most worthy news stories of the day for more casual visitors to consume.
With the announcement of some prospective changes to its voting rules, is Digg capitulating to big money interests? Or has its slow march to corruption already rendered its original mission moot?
In a stunning turn of events this week, Facebook revealed that it now takes in enough actual money to pay for its own business expenses.
“There’s a myth that you can’t make money on the internet, these days,” said recently post-pubescent CEO Mark Zuckerberg.
“As it turns out, all you have to do is become a social organizer for a virtual nation of 300 million, and keep them distracted with Mafia Wars while you sell off their personal shopping habits to retailers,” Zuck noted.
Here’s to hoping other internet entrepreneurs heed Zuckerberg’s message and find new and creative ways to engage (exploit) internet users, at large.
