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    March 21, 2012, 6:37 p.m.
    Fish: a tap essay
    LINK: itunes.apple.com  ➚   |   Posted by: Joshua Benton   |   March 21, 2012

    Robin Sloan — novelist, media inventor, ex-Twitterite, Snarkmarketeer — has made an iPhone app.

    This is an essay about the difference between LIKING something on the internet and LOVING something on the internet.

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