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Scoop: Mark Zuckerberg cashes out
We hear Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook, has cashed out — before an IPO, before a sale, and before his investors. In the company’s recent financing round, insiders believe, he sold about $40 million worth of stock.
(tags: facebook vc)

Karlheinz Stockhausen, Composer, Is Dead at 79 - New York Times
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Tracing Business Acumen to Dyslexia - New York Times
The report, compiled by Julie Logan, a professor of entrepreneurship at the Cass Business School in London, found that more than a third of the entrepreneurs she had surveyed — 35 percent — identified themselves as dyslexic.
(tags: business dyslexia)

Pitchfork Feature: The Year in Photos
(tags: music 2007 pitchfork)

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Santa’s Ghetto - 2007
(tags: banksy art)

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National Geographic Photography Contest - Animal Gallery - National Geographic Magazine
International Photography Contest
(tags: photography nature photos photo animals animal)

Facebook | The Facebook Blog
But we missed the right balance. At first we tried to make it very lightweight so people wouldn’t have to touch it for it to work. The problem with our initial approach of […]

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Google: A TV Player In 3-5 Years - Silicon Alley Insider
oogle president of advertising Tim Armstrong said Google TV is actively looking to expand inventory beyond EchoStar’s Dish Network; he described a recent well-attended “advertiser day” at Google for TV and agency execs.
(tags: google)

PayPerPost Fights Back Against Google’s PageRank Changes
When Google modified its PageRank algorithm […]

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Over here at Ad Age, we’re plotting out our coverage of the CES,  January 7-10, in Las Vegas. Whatever we do is sure to be multimedia affair so let me know if you’re interested in potentially being a part of it. Write me at mcreamer@adage.com.

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Top Editor and Two Colleagues to Leave Media Blog Gawker - New York Times
Two weeks after complaining about the page-view-pay system in a post on Gawker in September, another Gawker staff writer, Alex Balk, quit and took a job at Radar magazine.
(tags: blogs)

Writers on Strike - 2007 Media Person of the Year
Hollywood’s striking movie and […]

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Following on the Optimize Me piece, here’s an interview I did for Reprise Media’s Searchviews blog.

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Last spring, I attended a conference called The Marketing Forum, a strange experience that led me to spend three days on a cruise ship anchored off the coast of Long Island in a fog bank with hundreds of clients, agencies and other vendors. One of highlights turned out to be meeting Peter Hershberg and Josh […]

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NYT: Facebook’s Zuckerberg Lied To Us; Coke: Ditto - Silicon Alley Insider
he “Beacon” fallout continues. The New York Times’ Louise Story essentially accuses Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg of lying to her about Beacon’s being “opt-in.”
(tags: facebook advertising)

The News-Press, news-press.com, Arts & Theater, Art Basel a sensory feast
Art Basel Miami Beach 2007 hits South Beach and surrounding […]

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