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Ericka Menchen of technology & the social did a 70 user pilot study.

That’s only 70 out of 90′000… but interesting nonetheless with the prospect of a full study in the near future.

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Jon Garfunkel writes in Civilities

To read the headlines, or the bloglines, one might get the sense that the bloggers have arrived on the scene to challenge the “gatekeepers” of the big media. This is an essay in six parts to examine this theme.

I will argue here that gatekeepers are inherently needed by the architecture of the blogosphere– as it has evolved, since 2001, into a public consciousness.

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Stephen Evans, BBC North America business correspondent: The cult of Mac

To enter the Apple store in Manhattan is to enter a temple.
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The Italian philosopher, Umberto Eco, once wrote, tongue only partly in cheek, that Macintosh is Catholic while Microsoft computers are Protestant.
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I think he had a point…