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July 13, 2010, 6 p.m.

Links on Twitter: credit cards to take on anonymity, the web to host interview transcripts, the mating rituals of ideas

Today is "Embrace Your Geekness Day." Please celebrate accordingly. http://j.mp/a1hvf6 »

Press+: our wall can be bypassed if users "are willing to spend the time and effort and endure the related inconvenience" http://j.mp/cJ4wAC »

"We need ideas to meet, recombine and mate…and we need to understand how ideas have sex." http://j.mp/bnWCTk »

Goodbye, anonymity…hello, legal disclaimer: paper to charge $.0.99, by credit card, to comment on stories http://j.mp/bWdDba »

Don’t miss this: @CJR‘s wide-angle and deep-dive look at the financial potential of mobile http://j.mp/daoPM0 »

Newspapers don’t have the space for full-transcript interviews, but why not the web? http://j.mp/agmqme »

 
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