"The message from that is that there is a seductive attraction to clusters but what one has to do is to look behind that, " he said.
Capitalizing on the idea that people generally tend to find the interests of their friends, well, interesting, the ability to share what one has just read, watched, or listened to allowed for an organic, and explosive, increase in not only the amount of content one consumed, but also the breadth of it.
That, though, is what one partner has said about the other in the political marriage which is our coalition government.
"What one really has to be careful of is giving children the impression that being bad or evil gets you gifts, " he said.
By 1776, the Atlantic Ocean had become what one historian has called "an information highway" across which poured books, magazines, newspapers and copies of the debates in Parliament.
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In the fast and furious business world where presentations are often hastily cobbled together with a disparate collection of begged, borrowed, or stolen slides and delivered by a presenter who is the only one in the room who can understand what on Earth one slide has to do with another, the numbering technique can be emergency CPR.
This has been just one part of what has made this conference so exciting and full of hope for me.
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One reason for the agonising over this speech has been what one source calls "getting the diplomacy right" ie ensuring that potential allies in Europe - the Germans, Dutch and the Swedes who have, so far, backed Britain's call for a freeze in the EU Budget - are clear that Mr Cameron is not capitulating to those who want Britain out of Europe.
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Or will they end up squandering what has been one of the western hemisphere's prime assets?
We are now in year five of what has been one of the great experiments in Keynesian economic policy.
One wonders what has happened to the Public Service Commissions across the country.
The dress has an abstracted print and over it, she wore what has become one of her signature styles, a cardigan.
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Audemars Piguet had taken over what has become one of the city's gorgeous, cavernous spaces with an exhibition open to the public.
Hollings, 76, is up for re-election this year in what has become one of the most reliably Republican states in the Union.
Once Sunday's sports have concluded, the closing ceremony will bring the curtain down on what has been one of the most successful Paralympics in the event's history.
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Simply put, HP wants what Apple has: One operating system, which it completely controls, at the heart of all of its consumer electronics phones, tablets, lightweight PCs, perhaps music players, digital cameras, televisions, etc.
After what has become one of the longer (and certainly one of the highest-profile) App Store approval delays, SlingPlayer Mobile for iPhone has finally gotten Apple's blessing -- with some serious changes under the hood.
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For months, residents of central Kentucky have been subjected to waves of attack ads ripping the two candidates in what has become one of the tightest and nastiest races in the battle for control of the House.
One last point: Airbnb has accumulated what they are calling one of the largest collections of interior photography on the planet, including about a million professional property shots.
But if Milton Friedman and Anna Schwartz were right in their insistence that it was actually the Federal Reserve that caused the Great Depression (which is something that Ben Bernanke himself has insisted that the Fed will not repeat) then one way of interpreting what has happened is that the European Central Bank has just set us all up for another Depression.
They are afraid of what these things will be able to do (and because no one has really shown off yet what they do that fear is at least partially justified).
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The trip is designed to reinforce what has quickly become one of Africa's most dynamic strategic partnerships.
One teacher has what she calls a "peace circle" each week where students can talk about anything that's bothering them.
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"Trying to make this just about the details of one shooting dismisses what has been happening in this community for years, " he said.
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