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I’m none too convinced by social networking, but I’m a happy advocate of Flickr and Last.FM, both of which are built around something I care about. Even there, though, people are sometimes unfathomable. Take this picture of Toyota’s iQ climbing a wall in Paris. It’s good enough that we used it in a blog post [...]

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How’s this for a paper trail? Dave writes a blog post bemoaning the distance between him and Marmite, I take a photo of my breakfast and post it on Flickr, somebody writing about whether wholemeal bread is healthy asks to use it to illustrate their post, I end up blogging about the whole thing. Correct: [...]

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Take the users out of Facebook and what’s left? Book, I’d say. The site’s the epitome of 2.0; a framework on which to hang user-generated content, and nothing without it. So, in common with other user-populated sites like Flickr, you’d expect them to have a pretty enlightened view of users’ importance, no? No. Consider this [...]

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