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The murky demimonde of Amazon's Top Reviewers.
I suppose I shouldn't have been surprised, but I had imagined Amazon's customer reviews as a refuge from the machinations of the publishing industry: "an intelligent and articulate conversation ... conducted by a group of disinterested, disembodied spirits..."
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at 5:11 AM on January 28, 2008
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Wikiality:
the reality that the majority of people agree upon. Stephen Colbert is at it again, provoking some chaos in his segment, "
The Word," by asking viewers to change the Wikipedia entry on
elephants to say that the population has tripled in the last three months. How can Wikipedia deal with the problem of vandalism? Here's an interesting
article from the New Yorker about "the world’s most ambitious vanity press."
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at 2:01 PM on August 1, 2006
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The Chappelle Theory.
According to this anonymous theorist, a team of African-American celebrities called the
"Dark Crusaders" threatened Chappelle with a
package containing a picture of a man, of Al Sharpton's build, standing next to his sleeping children. Is this a joke or the work of a right nutter?
posted to MetaFilter by farishta
at 2:25 PM on December 17, 2005
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