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Journalism: of sell-outs and hand-outs

by Mathew on January 25, 2008 · View Comments

Is this really the best we can do for a Friday frenzy on Techmeme? Scoble decides to put ads on his blog — woop-de-frickin-doo. If someone wants to advertise on the Scobleizer’s blog, they can go right ahead. I certainly don’t think it’s going to affect anyone’s perceptions of whether what Robert does is actual [...]

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Don’t bother searching for “Tianenmen Square” (updated)

by Mathew on January 25, 2006 · View Comments

As many expected, Google has launched a Chinese version of its search engine (NYT link) in an attempt to grow in that massive market, and to compete with local search providers such as Baidu.com, and it has agreed to filter its results to comply with government restrictions — or what several wags have referred to [...]

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