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Flying ants are just like this one, but with wings.” Best. Caption. Ever.

—Flying ants plague London | Metro.co.uk

Gizmodo’s iPhone 4 scoop should be a lesson to all online news organization. Gizmodo got one of the biggest tech scoops in a generation and muffed it. The released product showed just how little Giz learned about iPhone 4. A news organization with deeper reporting culture surely wouldn’t have missed so much.

—Oddly Together | Journalist Burnout is Symptom of Sick Newsrooms

(via Instapaper)

If you read one thing about social media today, make this it.

(via Instapaper)

A few years ago I’d have said this was impossible. A person’s right to keep their online existence separate to their “real life” was not questioned, and in many cases considered a necessary defence against real-life enemies like draconian hiring managers who don’t understand that weird Internet thing. Nowadays the overwhelming success of Facebook suggests that the bulk of Internet denizens don’t care if their their real names are splashed across The Googles, and don’t care that their on– and offline lives are hopelessly intertwingled.

—The End of the Masquerade (via Instapaper)

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[It] basically comes down to the fact that no matter how you want to cut it, the only voice that’s really important is the one of the original author. Everyone else’s comment stands or falls in relation to whatever the author said first. And that’s not very community focused at all.

—Punched in the Mouth, Community, and my minor Hypocrisy | Devastating Love