News Orgs: their Fans and Followers, March 2012

The Onion, holding its own.

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interlocking and interchangeable footwear - urshuz from Grant Delgatty

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CORD JEFFERSON on GOOD

Meet the Most Dangerous Man in Cyberspace: The American Face of Wikileaks

If you’re not quite sure what to make of all the Wikileaks talk—or don’t have the time to sift through the hundreds of thousands of cables the organization has released recently—you’d do well to start with the Rolling Stone profile of Jacob Appelbaum: “Meet the Most Dangerous Man in Cyberspace: The American Face of Wikileaks.”

As Nathaniel Rich writes: “In a sense, he’s a bizarro version of Mark Zuckerberg: If Facebook’s ambition is to ‘make the world more open and connected,’ Appelbaum has dedicated his life to fighting for anonymity and privacy. An anarchist street kid raised by a heroin- addict father, he dropped out of high school, taught himself the intricacies of code and developed a healthy paranoia along the way. ‘I don’t want to live in a world where everyone is watched all the time,’ he says. ‘I want to be left alone as much as possible. I don’t want a data trail to tell a story that isn’t true.’”

Read the rest of the profile on RollingStone.com.

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Jay-Z, on how he would remember the lyrics he wrote while selling drugs on the street, in an interview on Fresh Air with Terry Gross, 11/16/10. (via nprfreshair)

Btw Jay Z was invited in The New York Public Library to discuss with Cornel West about the context in hip hop,  his book Decoded. How did visual art and poetry influence his craft? How did he get involved in politics when he never really trusted the system? How did he stay honest to himself in the world of big business and how did he shed stereotypes when he’d been labeled one all his life?

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“Some People Feel The Rain Others Just Get Wet”

Bob Dylan

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- Charlie Chaplin  

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Felix and Volcano! – BOKU MARU 

With a Casio and old school hip hop influence morphed into spurts of U.K. rock this tune that, this New Hampshire band, Felix an Volcano! dropped off for me has my foot tappin’ hard.

(thx to headunderwater)

Oberhofer – Away FRM U

Oberhofer may sound pretty much german to your ears, but 19 year old Brad Oberhofer, frontman of the Brooklyn based indie-rock outfit Oberhofer, is American. And with his only 19 years Brad is doing many things right: Although the music contains hand claps, jangly things, as well as plenty of ooohs and aaahs, he still uses very clever lyrics for his age. A good example are the lines in the song “Away Frm U”:

“You’re pushing me away from you/ And there’s nothing I can do”,he wails, but instead of a second chance, he’s just looking for a chance to get it right. “I know what I’ll do/ I’m gonna fix/ So I can get out of this mess”, he promises, right after turning the tables on whoever’s been telling him to fuck off: “I can’t fight all of your battles for you”.

I have the feeling that this won’t be the last time you heard something about Oberhofer!

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Wanda Jackson – Funnel Of Love 

Born in Oklahoma. She dated Elvis Presley. She toured with Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Buddy Holly. She is the Queen of Rockabilly.

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