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, Jan 16, 2013
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, Nov 8, 2012
Corpus reviver: Google unveils a new tool for looking at language
The Ngram Viewer! Less boring than it sounds
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, Oct 15, 2012
Fourteen questions I asked myself while reading
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The maddening and inspiring Yahoo CEO is just doing her job—and making us question how we do ours
by Mara Shalhoup
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, Sep 19, 2012
What's the difference?
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, Apr 17, 2012
The good old bad old days
David Lowery defends the major-label system.
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, Feb 21, 2012
Birth control and birthday cake
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, Feb 13, 2012
MSM failing to bring major advertisers online — Pew study
Pew reports MSM isn't bringing along its legacy advertisers as it moves online
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, Jan 19, 2012
Puppets versus censorship
A preview of the latest feature by local video-making collective Everything Is Terrible!
by Ben Sachs
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, Nov 22, 2011
Our candidates, ourselves
The intellectual qualifications of the Republican primary field.
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, Nov 17, 2011
Google Music leaves beta
Free Google cloud music, with a cheap Stones bootleg
by Miles Raymer
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, Aug 11, 2011
Market indigestion
I've lost a lot of dough in Sara Lee stock this week, and the Dow's swings are so wild that even Pepto-Bismol hasn't helped.
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, Jul 29, 2011
How does it feel
On existential Googling.
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, Jul 29, 2011
The Pluses of Google Minus
Google Minus: the first asocial networking service
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, Jul 28, 2011
Oh, Brother
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Who gets up when the baby cries?
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, May 10, 2011
Google Music Gets a Thumbs-Down From the Majors
Mountain View launches a compromised cloud music service.
by Miles Raymer
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, May 5, 2011
As music moves to the cloud, will the major labels follow?
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, Mar 21, 2011
Is Apple Finally Taking iTunes to the Cloud?
A new MobileMe might bring music "lockers."
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