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  • On the Future of MetaFilter. 

    Matt Haughey dicusses the situation, and the “peak ads” phenomenon. MetaFilter has apparently been in some financial trouble for a little while now. Over on MetaTalk they announced that they have had to reduce their staff by three people.

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  • The Worst Day Of My Life Is Now New York's Hottest Tourist Attraction. 

    Everyone should have a museum dedicated to the worst day of their life and be forced to attend it with a bunch of tourists from Denmark. Annotated divorce papers blown up and mounted, interactive exhibits detailing how your mom’s last round of chemo didn’t take, souvenir T-shirts emblazoned with your best friend’s last words before the car crash. And you should have to see for yourself how little your pain matters to a family of five who need to get some food before the kids melt down. Or maybe worse, watch it be co-opted by people who want, for whatever reason, to feel that connection so acutely.

    Steve Kandell visits the 9/11 museum in New York City, 13 years after his sister’s death in one of the twin towers.

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  • Women in Technology. 

    I recently attended a panel discussion about women in technology. The fun thing about this panel’s thought leaders was how they were all men. I assumed this controversial choice was a canny move on the organizer’s part: You wouldn’t just invite four men to sit on an elevated platform and talk down to an audience of women unless you knew the men had something meaningful to say. Right? No one would create such an event unless they were positive they could execute something with powerful value-add. Foolishly inoculated by this trust, a colleague and I spent the day of the panel writing questions we (wrongly / naively / tragically) hoped would be hilariously obsolete. I’m passing along some of those questions now, in the hopes of helping any other women in technology.

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  • The end of the Guvernment. 

    For some mother fucking condos? All the night clubs in Toronto will be condos soon enough. Everything in Toronto will be a condo.

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  • The Heather Project. 

    Videos of Heather Ogden from the National Ballet of Canada by Christopher Wahl. Ballet is cool and hard.

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  • No Exit. 

    Some long-form journalism about startups in Silicon Valley. Is there anything else people write about now?

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  • Introducing Flickr 3.0 for iPhone and Android. 

    This looks to be a serious attempt to add some of the convenience of Instagram to Flickr. It looks very much like the Instagram application. I’m curious to see how the website will change or evolve.

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