Links 2-2-11: Demolish Facebook requests, Blogging possibly over, Tumblr tags
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Top of the Interwebs:
The web was wowed by (or at least really interested in) The Daily, News Corp’s (read: Rupert Murdoch) new iPad-only newspaper. The newsapp is free for two weeks and if you don’t know what the hell I’m talking about, here’s one place to find all The Daily buzz. Honestly, I would have done a round-up, but I just don’t care. Jeez… just read the bazillion Nieman Lab articles if you are really that interested.
Niche controversy of the day:
Treyarch, inventor of the worlds least interesting video games, blames whiny fans for Call of Duty’s complete lack of innovation or human decency. Then Kotaku calls them out and notes that stupid people might promote stupid games, but good games come from good developers. I would like to note that Treyarch does not fall under the category of good developers.
It’s a miracle (tool)!
Demolish all your annoying Facebook requests with one click. Next step: send real Mafia to the houses of those who sent the requests.
Worth looking at today:
Nick Denton (of Gawker) talks about how blogging is SO over. The entirely insufferable interviewer at The New York Observer fails to provide links, not to mention ask him how that could be when he’s raking in the dough by blogging. The internet gasps.
GOOD finds that the United States is far more unequal then any rebellious Middle Eastern population and notes that the cause of all the Middle East protests is the inequality between the rich and the poor in the various countries. Good thing for American stability that we are too fat to protest.
Apparently people whose last names begin with letters at the end of the alphabet are psychologically traumatized. Shit, I’ve got a ‘Z’ right here. I am so screwed. Jason Kottke has the short version, if you don’t feel like reading the Slate-standard enormous article.
Tumblr has curated tag pages now. This is a pretty cool way to build community-reported content. Also, to find the best pictures of cats doing funny things.
Huzzah! The internet has, at least partially, begun to return to Egypt.
The web is all abuzz about Google’s new Android release Honeycomb.
