These people are escalating, and they’re looking for a success. Hate bloggers claim innocence because they are acting within their First Amendment rights. But their mobs look up to them, and the mob mentality that they are stoking is escalating.
I am being stalked. People want to kill me. They want me to be afraid.
These people are planning a hate crime, and they are relying on me hiding in silence to succeed.

http://ittybiz.com/death-threats-online/

Trailing indicators are great – they tell you what has worked, they help you to refine processes and fix things that are broken in your current processes. These are invaluable attributes that make them an essential part of your marketing mix. Klout score, PageRank, stock price, AdAge 150 listing, web analytics data – all of these are very effective at telling you what has happened.
The problem is, if you’re looking for what is going to happen, what the clues are to the future, and how you can be ahead of the competition, none of these numbers will be of help. Here’s an obvious example: Spotify.

http://www.christopherspenn.com/2011/07/innovation-has-a-low-klout-score/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ChristopherSPenn+%28Christopher+S.+Penn%29

The Google+ Real Name policy is just utterly wrongheaded.
It is against human nature.
It is against Internet Culture.
It is against the reality of how many people — writers, actors, performers, singers, artists — choose to identify themselves to everyone or to different market segments.
The Real Name policy should be dropped.
And Google has to right all the damage it has done.
It has broken trust.  That is the mortal sin of the 21st century.

http://mikecanex.wordpress.com/2011/07/24/the-google-real-name-policy-is-wrong/

http://www.cardiovascularbusiness.com/index.php?option=com_articles&view=article&id=28705

What happened to you, Goo? Who hurt you? Did you unexpectedly have your heart broken by a really Hot Young Lady Search Engine who left you for a more brooding, buffer, Bad Boy Search Engine in Search Engine High School, thus making it difficult for you to trust others? Because we’ll be honest, you seem to be constantly searching for something. Something you won’t find by tearing down the happiness of others, just to make them as miserable as you feel.

Should they just LIE and change their names to Dan Vader and Eugene Palpatine instead (as suggested by Scott Oldfield)? Is that what you want? Do you really want to create an online culture based on lies, where people regularly pretend to be somebody they’re not? What a horrible world that would be to live in.

http://deathstarpr.blogspot.com/2011/07/open-letter-to-google-re-fictionality.html?m=1

This is not a case of Hannity splicing together soundclips to make things clearer or shorter, this is Hannity omitting audio to deliberately change the answer. Hannity was petulant when he was taken out of context, for example calling his audience Tim McVeigh wannabes, he explained that was merely him pretending to be his detractors. But Hannity is seen here doing the same on a far more important topic – the President addressing the nation on our current fiscal priorities. 

Before he aired this censored clip, Hannity actually told listeners to stay tuned, because he was going to soon show that Obama was avoiding answering Jake Tapper’s question. If anything Obama was long-winded. Tapper’s question in full:

http://www.opednews.com/articles/Caught-Scissorhanded-Sean-by-Gustav-Wynn-110718-531.html

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/americas/2011/07/2011711201246802378.html

But apart from screwing up the lives of all the people they hacked, they also stuffed up the reputation of every other journalist who will be tarred with the same shitty brush. I’m fairly new to to the game, but I value my reputation, which Murdoch has just besmirched. In my paper last week, I took a very heavy editorial line against the local council. Now people are well within their right to ask, why should they treat me seriously, this bugger is probably hacking people’s messages.

http://nebuchadnezzarwoollyd.blogspot.com/2011/07/end-of-world-as-we-know-it-time-for.html

HomeAway had a soaring IPO, but the customers who use its site to rent vacation properties hate it. This tells you that one day a startup like Dwellable or Rentmix is going to destroy HomeAway.

http://blog.redfin.com/blog/2011/07/are_we_in_a_bubble_just_ask_the_customers.html

The Communist Party, despite three decades of economic reform, insists on its monopoly of political power.  And to maintain that monopoly, it tightly controls its own instrumentalities.  That’s especially true at this moment because the Party is in the midst of the most comprehensive crackdown on society since the 1989 Beijing Spring.  Chinese leaders clearly view social media as a threat to their rule, especially after seeing its force-multiplying effect in the ongoing Arab Spring protests that have toppled governments.
In short, China’s sovereign wealth fund, which is no more independent of the Communist Party than the Beijing municipal government, wants to buy a stake in the world’s most prominent social networking site because Chinese leaders want to control social media.  And they hope to do that as part of their comprehensive campaign to dominate the conversation about China—not just inside the country but around the world as well.

http://blogs.forbes.com/gordonchang/2011/07/03/china-wants-to-buy-facebook/