Liz Gannes

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You Sound Dumb When You Use All Those Hashtags

Attention teenagers and marketers: You’re overdoing it with the hashtags.

Jimmy Fallon and Justin Timblerlake deliver a public service announcement depicting what many people sound like on Twitter, Instagram, Vine and everywhere else (Facebook, too). Once upon a time, hashtags helped link together social media conversations; now they make regular people sound like awkward spammers.

Here’s the video. Remember: They’re annoying because it’s annoying.

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The problem with the Billionaire Savior phase of the newspaper collapse has always been that billionaires don’t tend to like the kind of authority-questioning journalism that upsets the status quo.

— Ryan Chittum, writing in the Columbia Journalism Review about the promise of Pierre Omidyar’s new media venture with Glenn Greenwald