Mr Angry Internet Man Explains

From the Merriam Webster entry:

Main Entry: re·cid·i·vist Pronunciation: –vist Function: noun Etymology: French récidiv­iste, from récidiver to relapse, from Middle French, from Medieval Latin recidivare, from Latin recidivus recur­ring, from recidere to fall back, from re– + cadere to fall

Earlier this evening, I made what some might describe as an immod­erate comment

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Social news not the same as ‘the news’

Just a quickie update. Jason Calacanis of Weblogs Inc. wrote his own take on social news sites and crowd beha­viour therein back in March. He explains how untrue stories with a catchy title can very easily become widely dis­sem­in­ated. On the plus side, though, having thou­sands of editors also means that these stories are exposed

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