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Twitter and Flickr deleted our photos within seconds. Direct links to the photos in question broke after a quick hard refresh, so you can be sure that your salacious pictures mistakenly posted to Flickr while inebriated will no longer be accessible to your enemies (assuming they didn’t copy them to their hard drives, that is).

Facebook and MySpace, however, did not fare so well. As of this writing, both images we used are still available on Facebook and MySpace servers despite having been “deleted” in May.

marco:

I had a thought last night that I wanted to wake up this morning and get rid of 75% of the ‘stuff’ that I own. […]

How do you start to get rid of these things?

Get some sort of external storage. The basement, a small rental storage unit, your parents’ place, or New Jersey. The less convenient it is to access, the better.

Put nearly everything you own there. Leave out only what you’d pack if you were going on a trip for 2 weeks.

From that point forward, remove only what you need, as you need it, from storage. You’ll almost never need to do this.

After a year, get rid of everything that’s still in storage.

I’ve done this. You know what I had to go get? The microphone for Rock Band. Who knew?

I think I’ll remember last week as the moment when I finally knew, with a certainty approaching fatigue, that the newspaper industry – the business and passion that both shaped and warped me over the past 20 years – had chosen ritual suicide. The choice appears grimly reached and irrevocable.

Great article.
(via givemesomethingtoread)

Loving some of the comments as well:

This is an economic paradigm shift in which over sized corporations of all stripes are failing - it’s not just media, it’s finance, it’s auto, it’s agriculture, it’s any industry that has extracted value from a 20th century technology set that allowed (and to some extent encouraged) oligarchies to form and prosper.

What we are witnessing is the slow, painful death of the corporate paradigm. 21st century technologies are atomizing and distributing and empowering at the individual level.

Multinational monster banks are dying - peer to peer micro lending and local currency exchange is growing. Centralized auto manufacturing is dying - a better place and useful mass transit is coming. Factory farms are creating viruses and nutritionally bankrupt foodstuffs - backyard victory gardens and local farmers markets are restoring health.

And, thankfully, Newspapers are dying - Newsgroups are forming.

marco:

My Alienware is disappointingly noisy, even though I paid extra for having it sound-proofed and watercooled.

I learned a lot more than I expected about Jakob Nielsen, usability specialist, from this.

Pi.ckyyyy. Geesh.