"In case you wondered about the power of Twitter, Coke would like to tell you that it?s ?phenominal?. After the company purchased the second ever ?promoted tweet?, it saw 85 million impressions the first 24 hours.

According to articles on Yahoo Finance and the Financial Times, those 85 million impressions translated to a rate of 6% engagement, versus a typical .02% for any other type of online ad."

"The link you are accessing (fuzzyslogic.com) has been blocked by the
Barracuda Web Filter because it contains content belonging to the
category of: Tasteless & Offensive."

... But then my internet connection died, my firefox crashed and I
lost the epic post which I'd just written about dungeons and dragons
(both the old school dice based game and the new massively multiplayer
online game) and how I'd decided that if I was going to grind anything
that it should be poker. Value betting super thin, making genius hero
calls and generally reading people's souls is way more rewarding than
any virtual magical shoes.

"Having worked with designers for a few years now, I would have assumed you understood, despite our vague suggestions otherwise, we do not welcome constructive criticism. I don't come downstairs and tell you how to send text messages, log onto Facebook and look out of the window. I am willing to overlook this faux pas due to you no doubt being preoccupied with thoughts of Missy attempting to make her way home across busy intersections or being trapped in a drain as it slowly fills with water. I spent three days down a well once but that was just for fun.
I have amended and attached the poster as per your instructions."

"AMERICAN John Isner and Frenchman Nicholas Mahut are deadlocked at Wimbledon in the most incredible, historic and record-breaking match in tennis history.

When play was suspended for the day, the match was tied at 4-6, 6-3, 7-6, 6-7, 59-59 after a battle which had ebbed and flowed for exactly 10 hours. Isner had match point at 59-58 but Mahut fired down an ace to take it back to deuce.

At this point - at 9.07pm local time and with the light fading fast - match officials decided to suspend play, although Isner wanted to carry on and spectators yelled "We want more''."

"The Wall Street Journal just reported that the Federal Communications Commission is holding "closed-door meetings" with industry to broker a deal on Net Neutrality -- the rule that lets users determine their own Internet experience.

Given that the corporations at the table all profit from gaining control over information, the outcome won't be pretty.

The meetings include a small group of industry lobbyists representing the likes of AT&T, Verizon, the National Cable & Telecommunications Association, and Google. They reportedly met for two-and-a-half hours on Monday morning and will convene another meeting today. The goal according to insiders is to "reach consensus" on rules of the road for the Internet.

This is what a failed democracy looks like: After years of avid public support for Net Neutrality - involving millions of people from across the political spectrum - the federal regulator quietly huddles with industry lobbyists to eliminate basic protections and serve Wall Street's bottom line."

"The latest craze among the computerized trading community is using Johnny 5 to read through thousands of press releases in combination with some fuzzy logic and the 80/20 rule, to trade stocks pronto, even as plan vanilla Homo Sapiens are still stuck on footnote 1. The WSJ reports that: "Researchers have been working on an artificial-intelligence computer program designed to mimic the way an analyst uses financial news. In simulated trading, the program beat the S&P 500, and when combined with quantitative stock-picking techniques, it saw a return on trades of more than 20%.""