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• BuzzMachine » Blog Archive » The myth of the creative class
  "internet triumphalists, like me, argue that the internet opens up creativity past one-size-fits-all mass measurements and priestly definitions and lets us not only find what we like but find people who like what we do."
• Ai Weiwei: Why I'll stay away from the Olympics' opening ceremony | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
  "I will stay away from the opening ceremony, because I believe the freedom of choice is the basis of fair competition. It is the right I cherish most."
• Melanie McBride online | Dippity timeline
  My first attempt at a timeline on Dippity. Wish it displayed all posts.
• What Differentiates Yet Another Blog Post From A Professionally Web Published Article? - Robin Good's Latest News
  "I find it rather a lack of professionality, or better yet a lack of appreciation for what makes published information valuable that often limits the opportunities and potential of many otherwise talented bloggers and web publishers."
• Hipster: The Dead End of Western Civilization | Adbusters Culturejammer Headquarters
  Lovers of apathy and irony, hipsters are connected through a global network of blogs and shops that push forth a global vision of fashion-informed aesthetics
• Our Paradoxical Attitudes Toward Privacy - Bits - Technology - New York Times Blog
  Their findings: Our privacy principles are wobbly. We are more or less likely to open up depending on who is asking, how they ask and in what context.
• The Price of Oil, Tripled? An Attack on Iran Could Make It Happen | ForeignPolicy | AlterNet
  "In short and simple terms, we would be plunged into a depression that would make the Great Depression of the 1930s in which I spent my childhood look like boom times," said William R. Polk, former professor of history at the University of Chicago"
• Government Children's Plan encourages teachers to take on parenting duties | Education | guardian.co.uk
  "Schools are being required to take on more and more of the responsibilities that rightly belong to parents; and to provide more of the stability in children's lives which should be provided by families. There is also the perception that, in general, the skills of parents are declining as one generation succeeds another."
• Five places to save your hard-earned dime
  to help you make ends meet, we've looked at five areas with potential to save a buck
• The 10 Commandments of the Social Web
  A list worthy of all of my blogposts on the subject http://tinyurl.com/6gk7pg