Titelseite der taz vom 5. März 2010
Selbst wenn sich die Umfragen bestätigen sollten, die ihr für Juni 24 von 150 Parlamentssitzen vorhersagen, weiß niemand, woher eine Partei ohne lokale und regionale Strukturen die zusätzlichen Abgeordneten rekrutieren soll. Und auf enthusiastische Koalitionspartner wird die PVV schon gar nicht treffen. Diese aber benötigt sie, denn die zerfurchte niederländische Parteienlandschaft zieht selbst ihr Grenzen.
Sales of CJ Corporation’s snack sausages are on the increase in South Korea because of the cold weather; they are useful as a meat stylus for those who don’t want to take off their gloves to use their iPhones.
The youngest generation that has never known life without the Internet.
[Generation X + D(igital)]
via Schott’s Vocab Blog.
Very interesting interview with an anonymous Facebook employee. Facebook saves all your deleted data forever. Their engineers are some kind of super-humans. At the beginning of the interview there’s this nugget about friendship:
Employee: That’s right. How do you think we know who your best friends are? But that’s public knowledge; we’ve explicitly stated that we record that. If you look in your type-ahead search, and you press “A,” or just one letter, a list of your best friends shows up. It’s no longer organized alphabetically, but by the person you interact with most, your “best friends,” or at least those whom we have concluded you are best friends with.
Rumpus: In other words, the person you stalk the most.
Employee: No, it’s more than just that. It’s also messages, file posts, photos you’re tagged in with them, as well as your viewing of their profile and all of that. Essentially, we judge how good of a friend they are to you.
Conversations About The Internet #5: Anonymous Facebook Employee – The Rumpus.net.
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