Extra Future

Day: January 6, 2011

  • The Web Is a Customer Service Medium

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    Phil Nelson
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    [Paul Ford has written maybe the cleverest thing I’ve read about the web in as long as I can remember.][link] via [Aaron Swartz][aaron] [link]: http://www.ftrain.com/wwic.html “The Web Is a Customer Service Medium (Ftrain.com)” [aaron]: http://www.aaronsw.com/ “Aaron Swartz”

  • Study Linking Vaccines to Autism an “Elaborate Fraud”

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    Phil Nelson
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    [The study didn’t just have incorrect findings or bad data, it was an actual *fraud*, purposefully making stuff up][link]. The doctor has been stripped of his license and his study discredited, but the damage is done: >In the United States, more cases of measles were reported in 2008 than in any other year since 1997,…