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“Chances are that pressure will be brought to bear on Keys to help the FBI track down more members of Anonymous — that is, to the extent that he can. Don’t expect much.
Keys, who tweeted for Reuters under the name @TheMatthewKeys, appears to be nothing more than a bit player who was sympathetic to Anonymous and was a former employee of a TV station owned by Tribune. He’s unlikely to know how to go about finding the people who constitute the inner core of Anonymous.
For something like that, you need a much more strategically placed confidential informant. Someone like Hector Xavier Monsegur, who worked under the handle Sabu. He’s the one who, from an apartment on Manhattan’s Lower East Side, helped authorities in the U.S., U.K. and Ireland collar a few allegedly higher-ranking members of Anonymous.”

Arik Hesseldahl, AllThingsD - Reuters Social Media Editor Indicted for Helping Anonymous Hackers

“Then there is voice mail, another impolite way of trying to connect with someone. Think of how long it takes to access your voice mail and listen to one of those long-winded messages. “Hi, this is so-and-so….” In text messages, you don’t have to declare who you are, or even say hello. E-mail, too, leaves something to be desired, with subject lines and “hi” and “bye,” because the communication could happen faster by text. And then there are the worst offenders of all: those who leave a voice mail message and then e-mail to tell you they left a voice mail message.”

@nickbilton, Etiquette Redefined in the Digital Age - NYTimes
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“Within two days we found it was working really well,” explained Ars editor in chief Fisher. “We were identifying within an hour stories that would go on to do 900,000 views. And these were not pieces you’d hear by title and think, ‘That’s going to be killer.’ One was titled, Quantum Networks May Be More Realistic Than We Thought.”

Ars Technica Ads Get Ahead of the Story - Tech site develops predictive platform to monetize traffic surges

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High-res thisistheverge: America’s first bookless public library will look ‘like an Apple Store’ Bexar County, Texas says that it will open the first 100 percent digital public library system in the country, unveiling plans for its first location this past week. The plan has been in the works for a while, headed up by Bexar County Judge Nelson Wolff, who says he was inspired to create a digitally native library while reading Walter Isaacson’s biography of Steve Jobs. 

thisistheverge:

America’s first bookless public library will look ‘like an Apple Store’

Bexar County, Texas says that it will open the first 100 percent digital public library system in the country, unveiling plans for its first location this past week. The plan has been in the works for a while, headed up by Bexar County Judge Nelson Wolff, who says he was inspired to create a digitally native library while reading Walter Isaacson’s biography of Steve Jobs. 

The New York Times’ Plan to Save the Banner Ad

joshsternberg:

I know, I know. Not a sexy topic. But…I had a lot of fun reporting this AND is actually quite important (not the story, but what the NYT is doing) for the success of the NYT.

Like many publications, The New York Times has a banner ad problem. The problem is this: the Web is littered with banners and new computer-driven methods of buying discrete audiences is putting even further pressure on the display ad market.

But unlike newfangled publications like BuzzFeed, the NYT isn’t giving up on the banner. In fact, it wants to reinvent it by giving it a heavy dose of the same tech savvy behind its recent pathbreaking interactive feature, “Snow Fall.”

Inside the NYT’s Idea Lab, a team of 10 works to save the banner ad. The lab itself is an offshoot of NYT’s R&D Lab, which was set up to come up with new technologies for storytelling. Think of the three-year-old Idea Lab as something similar, only it works with agencies and brands to help advertisers tell stories in modern, interesting ways.

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