“We thought there was an opportunity to do for professional journalism what Tumblr and Pinterest and Flipboard, so many of the other innovative new startups, have done for other kinds of content.”
Jaron Lanier says the web's culture of free is poised to cause damage to the middle class economy. nie.mn/16OnxtH 
Armin Vit of Brand New takes a look at the new Twitter bird (angled ever so slightly further upward, and now roosting in our top header bar) and notes the iconic power its achieved in short order:
Twitter has achieved in less than six years what Nike, Apple, and Target took decades to do: To be recognizable without a name, just an icon.
From the comments:
We know we’re in trouble if they spend too much time redesigning the Fail Whale.
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May 21, 2013
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