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...REILLY: Right, but remember what Google did. They basically said, let's look at what all the millions of individual users are linking to, and let's use that information to get the good stuff to float to the top. That turned out to be a very powerful idea, the ramifications of which we're exploring in other areas, such as with tagging on Flickr or blogs. People are finding more ways to have the wisdom of crowds filter that signal-to-noise...
...actually now remarkably disadvantaged in terms of social capital. We're used to thinking everything is going to get more and more virtual until we're these big floaty video heads, but actually there is a return of the real, as we figure out how to use this stuff to have real-world encounters...
...Island Macouns and Winesaps--replacing the Red Delicious and Granny Smiths grown for long-distance trucking--apple consumption doubled. To be sure, some colleges find it easier and cheaper to install fast-food counters. And some students would just as soon dine on Kraft cheese and Cocoa Puffs ("This stuff is weird," grumbled University of Portland physics major David Baldwin, 18, sniffing at the salmon-fennel latkes). Even a few Yalies grouse that the all-local dining hall doesn't serve tomatoes in winter. "My generation knows how to put food in a microwave and eat in front...
Teens aren't inclined to pay for stuff they can get free--especially off the Internet. "We're too cheap," says a 17-year-old Redwood City, Calif., high school student. Thanks to such post-Napster sites as BitTorrent and Soulseek that offer free peer-to-peer file sharing, the teenager and her friends don't have to buy music, movies, games and TV shows online. Getting away with illegal downloading to cell phones is so easy that mobile piracy is denting the $4 billion mobile-content business. Ringtone shoplifting is one of the costliest abuses, accounting for an estimated...
...There was a lot of stuff going on tonight, with Gordie Howe here—that was really special for the players,” Quinnipiac coach Rand Pecknold said...