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Prior to the rise of digital social life, much of what we said and did was in a public environment — on the street, in a park, at a party — but was not actually public, in the sense of being widely broadcast or persistently available.

This enormous swath of personal life, as we used to call it, existed on a spectrum between public and private, and the sheer inconvenience of collecting and collating theoretically observable but practically unobserved actions was enough to keep those
actions out of the public sphere.

That spectrum has now collapsed — data is either public or private, and the idea of personal utterances being observable but unobserved is becoming as quaint as an ice cream social.

— Clay Shirky, via The New York Times

1. Barack Obama (@BarackObama)
2. Lady Gaga (@ladygaga)

via Flowing Data

Chasing a dream and living a nightmare. — Robert Verdi

Whoa, you scared the bejesus out of me. I guess I didn’t hear you come in. How long have you been standing there? Anyway, welcome to Taco Bell. What can I get you? via TBB

These make me lawl.

Justin Bieber, the 16-year-old Canadian singer, has been nominated for a BET award. The teen pop star and hair-spiration, will compete for a best new artist prize with Wale, a rapper from Washington, and Young Money,  the rapper Drake’s group, among others.