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...with features that maximize individuality ? Google Maps Users can add their own points of interest to create mashups like www.beerhunter.ca ? Google AdSense Provides free ads relevant to your website, then pays you if people click on them ? Google The search empire built itself around a social function: counting links between websites THE GATHERERS The crowd isn't just expressing itself more; it's also gathering and filtering all those blog posts and photographs and finding an audience for them ? iStockphoto This photo store taps an army of amateurs, who can sell their shots for as little...
...precious “digital l00t” may in fact have real market value, all the gold doubloon clipart in the world can’t fix his social deficiencies or bad breath. On the plus side, a book about fake ambitions, repressed fantasies and the inability to function in the real world probably will sell great over at MIT. The Cult of iPod by Leander Kahney I felt embarrassed holding this book at the COOP, because the cover—a bird’s eye view of someone with an old-fashioned iPod click wheel shaved into...
...think the main function of music is to enhance the worship,” said Edward E. Jones, Harvard’s head organist and choirmaster...
Celebrating these occasions serially is hard enough; handling them simultaneously makes you dizzy. Red-letter days are our measuring sticks, the fixed points from one year to the next by which we can tell how much we've changed. They let us gauge the function or dysfunction of the clan, see how our hopes ferment, our kids grow and ripen. Little sister wears big sister's Easter dress from two years ago, and you suspect she's going to end up taller. The cub scouts in the annual Memorial Day parade are eagles now. So in the spirit of holiday...
...paper-pushers in University Hall are eager to neuter our procedural revolution. Various administrators have proposed that some of the new committees function on the basis of consensus, without formalized voting rights or parliamentary procedure. Perish the thought...