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Is Twitter Conspiring With Celebrities To Delete Your Mean Tweets?
3:29AM Ryan Tate | Blogger Mickey Kaus likes to send nastygrams to famous people, on Twitter, when the mood strikes him. And yet these messages sometimes disappear from Twitter search, despite the microblogging service’s well-established technical competence. Mere coincidence — ha! — or conspiracy? More »
Iran Frees Newsweek Reporter
2:17AM John Cook | Maziar Bahari, the Canadian-Iranian Newsweek reporter who has been detained in Tehran’s notorious Evin Prison since his arrest while covering the nation’s post-election uprising in June, has arrived safely in London in time for the birth of his first child. More »
Online
Politico: Please Take Your Unauthorised Obama Info Elsewhere
7:14AM John Cook | Politico’s Ben Smith almost WON THE DAY with nice little scoop—the video of Barack Obama calling Kanye West a “jackass” during pre-interview banter with CNBC’s John Harwood. But someone made him take it down. Why in the world? More »
Online
After All That Drama, Google China Loses Leader
7:37PM Andrew Belonsky | Poor Google! The company’s Chinese expansion hasn’t been easy: they’ve been shamed for giving into government censors and continue to play second-fiddle to a state-supported competitor. And now they’ve lost their regional leader. What will become of the company? More »
Online
Blog Tries To Unpublish ‘One Of The Best Kept Secrets In Brooklyn’
4:29AM Hamilton Nolan | Yesterday, the New York Times’ blog about the Fort Greene neighbourhood published a post on a “secret underground climbing gym” in Brooklyn. Today, they took the post down. For a preposterous reason! Now it’s getting way more attention. More »
Print
Magazine Newsstands: Hos Before Brünos
1:41AM John Cook | We knew that newsstands have been treating American GQ’s July cover, featuring a nude-but-not-all-hanging-out Sacha Baron Cohen like porn. But a tipster at a Hudson News in Manhattan has noticed the decision has lead to some interetsing juxtapositions. More »
People
MJ-Related Pancake Painting A Little Too Intense For Ebay
2:34AM Hamilton Nolan | Speaking of important Michael Jackson news, pancake-painter-to-the-stars Dan Lacey has some! He painted a moving portrait of “Joe Jackson with a Michael Jackson memorial ticket and a pancake upon his head.” Ebay is censoring it! More »
Online
Let’s Screw Up The Entire Internet To Save Newspapers
3:09AM Hamilton Nolan | The hot new idea among people who think about “journalism,” and the sanctity thereof: let’s ban linking, on the internet! Let’s also ban wheels, in order to save the horse industry. Let’s also ban talking about things! More »
Online
How Censorship Finally Helped Wikipedia’s Co-Founder
2:43AM Ryan Tate | Jimmy Wales had an image problem. After bending his online encyclopedia’s rules for a lover and, allegedly, for a benefactor, the Wikipedia co-founder faced rebuke and nearly lost his job. Then the New York Times made him a hero. More »
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