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GPOY: the morning after
GPOY and how are YOU this morning? What can I say? Between travelling to Ruralopolis again for a mini-working-vacation and writing up the Julian Assange Follies (or should that be the UK Foreign Office...
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Barrett Brown TinyChat videos: Arrest and Threats
Barrett Brown Busted A much shorter report on these videos, also by me, originally appeared on the Daily Dot. This one contains a much broader introduction to Barrett Brown, his background, the arrest,...
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Speaking of the War on Trolls…
trollstrollstrollstrollstrollstrollstrollstrolls Sooooo, yesterday I got trolled, and I fell for it, hard. That wouldn’t be so bad, but I published a story on the Daily Dot about it before we found out...
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Contemporary Journalism 101: The Twitter Stalk
Please hold for Hashtag John Doe You might think it’s easy being a reporter these days, what with newspapers being so high on the hog and all. Well, kid, you’d be wrong. It’s a dirty business, being a...
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Breaking: the Space/Irony Continuum
Stupid People Headline of the day: It’s Not OK To Be Shitty: Guy Fieri, BuzzFeed, And The Tyranny Of Stupid Popular Things on…Deadspin. And no, Guy Fieri is not a chef. Filed under: hipsters, media,...
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Operation Global Media Domination: The Bright Side of the Dark Side
The Dark Lord welcomes you, recruit Before there was Voldemort, there was Vader. And before there was Vader, the world knew another as “The Dark Lord,” and I’m not even talking about Conrad Black. He...
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Arthur: the Maritime Edition
You know what the cushiest job in the world is? The cushiest job in the world is the Vancouver television weather presenter. You put on a Gore-tex jacket, stand in front of a green screen and intone,...
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well, better late than never, eh?
You may not LOL, but I sure did. More than a year after I left the Daily Dot, I’ve been taken off their password system. That’s proactive security, people, that’s some ace security. Hello from...
View ArticleDaily Briefing Bingo Edition 2.0
If you’re new to Daily Briefing Bingo, check out Daily Briefing Bingo Edition 1.0 and get your first-edition Daily Briefing Bingo card. From this point onward, you can play either or both cards from...
View ArticleThe Covid-19 Briefing Bingo’s Revenge
Today’s briefing bingo, which is really yesterday’s briefing and today’s possible bingo, is brought to you by the Paul Naschy movie The Mummy’s Revenge. Why ask why? It’s 2020 and nothing makes sense...
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