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Fast Company

December 3, 2004 by Michael Boyle

Fast Company

on Flickr: Reinventing a category whose flashbulb burnt out from Fast Company’s Fast 50.

Tags: Flickr, Stewart Butterfield, Web 2.0

I missed it yesterday:

December 3, 2004 by Michael Boyle

I missed it yesterday:

Apple Launches iTunes Music Store in Canada. $0.99 a song, a nice discount from the US, and a decent selection of Canadian artists as well.

Tags: Arts

You may remember

December 3, 2004 by Michael Boyle

You may remember

that a few weeks ago, Google rolled out a Chinese Google News that omitted sources blocked by the Chinese government. Well now the government has done its part by blocking the main Google News site, according to Reporters sans frontières. This is a great example of why technologists, engineers, and others who, while technically adept, lack formal education (or experience with, evidently) in ethics, journalism, political theory, or philosophy, shouldn’t be the people entrusted with making such product design decisions. Companies have responsibilities – drawing the line in the sand on an issue such as this is clearly one of them. Google is really dropping the ball on this one.

Tags: Media

Details of the Red Cross report

December 1, 2004 by Michael Boyle

Details of the Red Cross report

about the Guantanamo prison facility have leaked, and they’re not pretty: Red Cross Finds Detainee Abuse in Guantánamo.

Tags: International Affairs

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