Kara Swisher

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Viral Video: I'm Going to Hold This One Against Britney

BoomTown usually loves a good Britney Spears music video.

But this one, for the single “Hold It Against Me,” pretty much poses her in front of dancers and not much else.

Still, it’s garnering kabillions of views online and that’s kind of the point, I guess.

Prolonged sigh:

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Just as the atom bomb was the weapon that was supposed to render war obsolete, the Internet seems like capitalism’s ultimate feat of self-destructive genius, an economic doomsday device rendering it impossible for anyone to ever make a profit off anything again. It’s especially hopeless for those whose work is easily digitized and accessed free of charge.

— Author Tim Kreider on not getting paid for one’s work