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Plus-Size Barbie Sparks Debate Over Body Image
"Plus-size" models (or any models above the super-skinny norm, for that matter) serve a dual purpose: They showcase plus-size clothing for a growing market... and they also provide women with a more diverse range of bodies to look up to. So if we have plus-size women modeling clothes, why not have plus-size Barbies? That's the question posed recently by Plus-Size-Modeling.com on Facebook, when the group posted an illustration of a plus-size Barbie-like doll
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The First "Knockout Game"
The game, if it ever really was a game, started in Boston in 1992, and the media forgot about it, until this year
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Radio station experiences major software meltdown during anti-NSA broadcast
During a simple discussion of the National Security Agency's surveillance practices, a US radio program experienced a unique "technological meltdown" on Thursday, prompting many to question whether the NSA was censoring the show. During an interview with Larry Klayman, the lawyer who recently won a preliminary injunction against the NSA’s bulk collection of phone records, Aaron Klein’s WABC radio program began experiencing what was termed a “tech meltdown” on the air.
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Google dethrones Apple to become most talked-about company of 2013
Google had a pretty good year in 2013. The company’s share price exploded to all-time highs, Android now eclipses all other mobile platforms in global market share at more than 80%, and Google’s share of search traffic is still nearly 70% despite increased competition from Yahoo and Microsoft’s Bing. Now, there’s a new feather Google can put in its cap: According to Dow Jones, Google dethroned Apple in 2013 and because the most talked-about company in terms of global media attention.
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Egyptian Author Warns of Uprising Fueled by… Jon Stewart?
A popular Egyptian author has reason to fear the future of his nation, believing that there are forces trying to undermine Egypt and bringing about an insurrection of sorts, and one of the people involved in this global subversion is Jon Stewart.
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Egypt Detains Journalists It Says Aired ‘False News’
Egyptian authorities detained a team of journalists working for the Al Jazeera English news channel on Sunday, including an Australian journalist and the channel’s Cairo bureau chief, on charges that included meeting with members of the Muslim Brotherhood, the Islamist group that the Egyptian government classified last week as a terrorist organization.
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Neetzan Zimmerman to leave Gawker
Gawker viral content mastermind Neetzan Zimmerman is leaving the company for social network startup Whisper, he told Capital on Friday. Zimmerman will be the editor in chief of the social secret-sharing app that has recently been attracting tens of millions of dollars from investors.
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Facebook Wants "High Quality Content."
Last year Facebook said it was going to start encouraging “high quality content” — a move that has set a lot of publishers on edge. How does Facebook know what “high quality content” is? One way is to ask Facebook users, which the company has said it has done for a while.
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Nets give 'Bridgegate' 17 times more coverage in 1 day than IRS scandal in 6 months
The Big Three networks, in a frenzy over New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie's traffic headache dubbed “Bridgegate,” have devoted a whopping 34 minutes and 28 seconds of coverage to the affair in just the last 24 hours. By comparison, that's 17 times the two minutes, eight seconds devoted to President Obama's IRS scandal in the last six months, according to an analysis by the Media Research Center.
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Facebook Acquires Branch Media Team To Lead New “Conversations” Group
It looks like Facebook has acquired Branch Media, the startup behind conversation service Branch and link-sharing service Potluck. Co-founder Josh Miller made the announcement on Facebook. He said his team will be forming a new Conversations group, which will be based in New York City, “with the goal of helping people connect with others around their interests.”
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How the media portrays manhood
Sadly, this is true.
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BitTorrent Creator's New Software DissidentX Hides Secrets In Plain Sight
Encryption tools help people keep secrets. Bram Cohen has a more subtle ambition: he wants to help people keep secret the act of keeping secrets. For the last year Cohen, who created the breakthrough file-sharing protocol BitTorrent a decade ago, has been working on a new piece of software he calls...
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Fake Traffic Means Real Paydays
At this point, the average reader understands the business model of blogging and online journalism pretty clearly: Get traffic, sell ads. The more traffic a site gets, the more money it makes. And sites need to get lots of traffic—lots more traffic than traditional media used to get—to pay for the costs of producing content.
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Great and Fake: The Wild Absurdity Of Iranian And Russian State Media
Did you know North Korea has schools that rival Eton? That Nazi space aliens are running D.C.? Propaganda peddled by Russian and Iranian state media is shocking—and absurd.
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CNN laid off more than 40 journalists at end of 2013
CNN and HLN “laid off more than 40 senior journalists in its newsgathering operation” at the end of 2013, Matthew Garrahan reports in the Financial Times. The cuts “coincide with changes to the network’s programming,” Garrahan writes. CNN President Jeff Zucker “has hired new presenters and diversified CNN’s output, adding documentary and reality series to its traditional live news coverage.”
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Here's Why Bill Gates Would Step Down as Chairman of Microsoft
Yesterday, Re/code first reported that Microsoft enterprise head Satya Nadella was the likely choice to be the CEO of the software giant and that a board vote on the new CEO would be made within the week. That was followed by a confirmation by Bloomberg on Nadella as the choice of the Microsoft board. But its report also included an intriguing bit of news that Microsoft co-founder and tech icon Bill Gates would step down as chairman
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How PBS is becoming the Plutocratic Broadcasting Service
Just a few hours after its billionaire anti-pension benefactor John Arnold responded to Pando’s exclusive story about media corruption, public broadcasting officials have now issued their own response – and like Arnold, they are stonewalling. Meanwhile, new questions are being raised about the larger pattern this scandal seems to embody.
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You're not going to read this - But you'll probably share it anyway
Earlier this month, there was yet another lengthy public debate about Upworthy, the two-year-old publisher that has become one of the most popular sites on Facebook due to its knack for overselling its bite-size content with "curiosity gap" headlines like, "Why Is Bill Nye Acting Like A Lunatic? Because He Doesn't Want To Get Blown Up, That's Why."
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Here's the Skinny on NBC's Olympic Latte Secret
After 10 days in Russia's sparse Olympic frontier, Sonari Glinton glimpsed a beautiful green siren: the Starbucks mermaid on a crisp white coffee cup. Was she a mirage? Starbucks isn't an Olympic sponsor and is therefore forbidden to have an official presence here. The nearest Starbucks is about 350 miles away by car in a little-known city called Rostov-on-Don.
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Syrian Electronic Army hacks into Forbes.com
The Syrian Electronic Army, the cyber wing of Bashar al-Assad's army, attacked Forbes.com Friday, compromising user data, defacing webpages and posting a fake story to the website.
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