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The Zapatistas in Mexico mobilize against the drug war; the AOL-HuffPo merger is starting to lose its charm; and Google’s Internet monopoly is threatened by Facebook. These discoveries and more after the jump.
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Gay men in Myanmar make up a language, women disappear in new-order Egypt and the Civil War divides Americans in 2011. These discoveries and more after the jump.
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By Robert Scheer — In defense of Arianna Huffington. Not that the lady needs one, having been a leader in undermining the right-wing dominance of Internet reporting.
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By Chris Hedges — The sale of The Huffington Post to AOL for $315 million, and the tidy profit made by principal owner and founder Arianna Huffington, who was already rich, is emblematic of the new paradigm of American journalism.
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Arianna Huffington’s namesake media empire is now the property of content-hungry AOL. For $315 million, AOL gets Huffpo’s 25 million monthly unique visitors along with all the ads and blog items they can digest. Huffington will stay on to use her savvy and Grecian know-how to wrestle some sense ... (more)
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AOL has been taking its lumps lately (and rightly so) for releasing data on the search queries of millions of its users. If that sounds a little abstract to you, check out a few of these queries.
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America Online, the beleaguered Internet giant, has announced plans to dig for gold?seriously. The company recently won a lawsuit against a spammer who then skipped town, so it plans to search his parents? property for gold and platinum bars it believes to be buried there.
Posted on Aug 15, 2006
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America Online recently released the search queries of more than 650,000 of its users for ?research? purposes. The data contained three months’ worth of searches that were attached to unique user IDs. No names were included with the release, but private information was easily gleaned from some of the queries.
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The Gray Lady publishes a slew of important and underreported stories its Saturday edition:
Two federal courts strike down the Partial Birth Abortion Act because it doesn’t have an exception for the life of the mother.
Yahoo and AOL are going to introduce digital postage stamps that companies can buy to ensure delivery of their e-mail.
Most Internet users have no idea how easy it is for courts to get ahold of their personal information.
The personal savings rate of Americans falls below zero for the first time since the Great Depression.
Now James Frey’s editor says that he, too, was fooled by the fabricating fabulist.
Posted on Feb 4, 2006
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Illustration by Karen Spector
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By Robert Scheer — In case someone in the Justice Department is reading this, let me hasten to explain why I just clicked on the Victoria’s Secret online catalog photo featuring a certain “Very Sexy Lace & Mesh Garter Belt.” AOL made me do it.
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By Blair Golson — AOL’s tasteless feature Hollywood “Babes in Arms” proves that mass media remains unbowed in its pursuit of exploiting war as a sexy, romantic profit center.
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