David wrote:

Apparently we're the next Microsoft after Google:

http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/topnews/wpn-60-20051201WikipediaistheN extGoogle.html

Good fucking God.

Don't get too excited. This article is what we call in the journalism trade "fluff." I might add, in addition, that it is wrong. MS and Google are powerful because they provide value and make billions; we provide value (well, maybe not, ask Mr. Siegenthaler...)

Marshall Poe The Atlantic Monthly www.memorywiki.org

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Apparently we're the next Microsoft after Google:

http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/topnews/wpn-60-20051201WikipediaistheN extGoogle.html

Good fucking God.

And dig CBS News' way with a headline:

http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2005/12/01/publiceye/entry1092784.shtml

- d.

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