“His achievements were spectacular, original, wildly exhilarating, but weirdly regressive: like the famous moonwalk itself.”
— Peter Bradshaw | Michael Jackson, the out-of-this-world Spielbergian character
June 2009
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“This, in a way, radically redefined the black performer’s relation to music, made Jackson an auteur. In this way, Jackson may have paved the way for Obama in the sense of black man as auteur and self-mythmaker.”
—Black Reverence for Jackson Is Now Unreserved - NYTimes.com
“As the world mourns the death of Michael Jackson, we remember his design legacy—not his taste in clothing (dictator chic), accessories (a crystal-studded white glove, primates), or typefaces (up with script fonts, down with serifs), but his patented anti-gravity footwear. That’s right, intellectual property fans, Jackson is listed as the first of three inventors on United States Patent 5,255,452, granted in 1993 for a “method and means for creating anti-gravity illusion.”
—Michael Jackson’s Design Legacy: Patented Anti-Gravity Shoes - mediabistro.com: UnBeige
“I grieve for him; but I also grieve for the culture that created and destroyed him. That culture is ours’ and it is a lethal and brutal one: with fame and celebrity as its core values, with money as its sole motive, it chewed this child up and spat him out.”
—The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan
Web slows after Jackson's death →
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The internet suffered a number of slowdowns as people the world over rushed to verify accounts of Michael Jackson’s death.
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“A critical network upgrade must be performed to ensure continued operation of Twitter. In coordination with Twitter, our network host had planned this upgrade for tonight. However, our network partners at NTT America recognize the role Twitter is currently playing as an important communication tool in Iran. Tonight’s planned maintenance has been rescheduled to tomorrow between 2-3p PST (1:30a in Iran).”
—Twitter Blog: Down Time Rescheduled
“The App Store Effect says this: if you cut a software program’s price in half, you sell far more than twice as many copies. If you cut it to one-tenth, you sell far more than 10 times as many. And so on.”
—Snow Leopard Takes a Page From the App Store Playbook - Pogue’s Posts Blog - NYTimes.com
“But the bottom line addition that @DellOutlet has made is the important stat here. It took nearly two years to reach $2 million in Twitter-based revenue, and only six months to go from $1 million to $2 million.”
—Making Millions via Twitter: @DellOutlet Surpasses $2 Million in Sales
LiberateLaura (LiberateLaura) on Twitter →
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Using the power of Twitter to maintain an urgent focus on the plight of American journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee, detained by North Korea since March 17th.
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'Gay penguins' rear adopted chick →
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Two “gay” male penguins have hatched a chick and are now rearing it as its adoptive parents, says a German zoo.
