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Facebook Responds

January 16th, 2006 · 4 Comments

It’s been right at one month since I posted the article What would Orwell do?. It was a sort of investigative exposé (and conspiracy theory) regarding the VCs who are currently funding Facebook.
I knew that the article would garner some attention; after all, Facebook has over 8 million users (and is growing by the day). [...]

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Data Mining is so hot right now.

January 5th, 2006 · 5 Comments

Man, have I been on a conspiracy kick lately. Timing is strange. I published my exposé on Facebook, then it broke that the NSA was spying with no balance of power. Since then it has been one thing after another, making my first few entries on this blog all about possible conspiracies.
Well, today a [...]

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The Internet and Intelligence

December 16th, 2005 · 2 Comments

Well, I garnered quite a bit of traffic from my post about Facebook and its possible CIA ties. Thanks to everyone who linked, particularly Andy over at Waxy.org!
I just recently started thinking about the Internet, its conception and its future, and it really is a bit of a conundrum. As reader Kenneth pointed out:
It’s like [...]

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What would Orwell do?

December 14th, 2005 · 32 Comments

If you are an active Internet user and under the age of 25 (or 30), you probably fit in one of two categories; either [1] You have tried social networking, but didn’t really get what the buzz was about, or [2] you get it, you dig it, and you sit for hours scouring, posting comments [...]

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