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Removed from 'Gmail' doesn't necessarily mean removed from all Google servers. In fact, your old emails are the data set from which Google models our behaviors - the real product it is offering its advertisers.

~Douglas Rushkoff

Topics: Advertiser Behaviors Data Emails Fact Google In Fact Mean Models Necessarily Offering Old Our Product Real Set Which Your

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Your next SMS will probably be around longer, and remain more legible, than your tombstone. For, unlike your tombstone or even your mortal coil, your texts may be worth something.

~Douglas Rushkoff

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If money can't be made reporting and writing articles, then professionals simply can't do it anymore. Unless we adopt the position that the amateur blogosphere is really capable of taking on the role that the 'New York Times' and CNN play, then we do need solutions for paying for content.

~Douglas Rushkoff

Topics: Adopt Amateur Anymore Articles Capable Content Made Money Need New New York New York Times Paying Play Position Professionals Really Reporting Role Simply Solutions Taking Then Times Unless Writing York Cnn

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Open source is a beautiful way of collaborating; but what's happening on the free Internet is more akin to the 'crowdsourcing' of journalists and other content creators by advertisers who no longer have to pay them - only the search engines that parse their articles.

~Douglas Rushkoff

Topics: Advertiser Articles Beautiful Collaborating Content Creators Engines Free Happening Internet Journalists Longer More Only Open Open Source Other Pay Search Search Engines Source Them Way Who

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Just as infinite access to free music ultimately leads to no one making a living at music anymore, free journalism just doesn't pay for itself - particularly not when a search engine is serving all the ads.

~Douglas Rushkoff

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As a professional journalist who nonetheless champions a 'people's' Internet, I am happy to compete against the thousands of amateur bloggers out there reporting and commenting on the same stories I do.

~Douglas Rushkoff

Topics: Against Am Amateur Bloggers Champions Commenting Compete Happy Internet Journalist Nonetheless Out People Professional Reporting Same Stories Thousands Who I Am I Am Happy

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The competitive advantage professional journalism enjoys over the free is just that: professional journalists, whose paid positions give them the time and resources they need to commit more fully to the task. If we can't do better, so be it.

~Douglas Rushkoff

Topics: Advantage Better Commit Competitive Competitive Advantage Free Fully Give Journalism Journalists Just More Need Over Paid Positions Professional Resources Task Them Time Whose

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For Google, the problem with being a free, abundant, and rather infinite set of services is that it's hard to create much of a stir about anything. There are so many major software service options under the 'more' menu on the Gmail page that they've had to go and add a final item called 'even more.'

~Douglas Rushkoff

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Apple enjoys 'Harry Potter'-like adoration and queues because it sells physical objects, limited by the pace of assembly lines in China. To own is to have, to have is to hold, and to hold is to show off.

~Douglas Rushkoff

Topics: Adoration Apple Assembly Because China Harry Hold Limited Lines Objects Off Own Pace Physical Sells Show Show Off

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Google is in a position where it doesn't even have to strive to become a hip, conscious choice. Brands are temporary fads. Functionality is forever. Google just has to 'be,' and everyone will end up there sooner or later.

~Douglas Rushkoff

Topics: Become Brands Choice Conscious End Even Everyone Fads Forever Functionality Google Hip Just Later Position Sooner Sooner Or Later Strive Temporary Up Where Will

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Journalist

Born: February 18th, 1961

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