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Some Silicon Valley CEOs rally the troops by hosting ski trips or offering free iPhones. And then there’s Cisco CEO John Chambers. He uplifts his workers through internal corporate communications — a webcam set up in his office which allows him to record video missives on his latest travels and to pooh-pooh the last quarter’s earnings report. Comments on the videos are enabled, and, some may say, enabling. Unlike the snarky criticisms you see on YouTube or other video sites, all the comments after Chambers’s clips are a hallelujah chorus. Cisco’s amen corner, after the jump.

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David Letterman, Jay Leno and Conan O’Brien could be back on TV before Hollywood writers end their strike, Variety reports. Writers are striking over how much they should be compensated for content distributed over the Internet and on DVDs, but producers for the three late night shows are in secret talks to bring back their own scribes before the strike ends. That could be a serious blow to the writers’ cause. So far, late-night reruns are the only sign for most television viewers that anything’s going on at all. Producers won’t run out of sitcom and drama scripts until January.

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The wisdom of crowds? We’ll believe it when we see it. Charting the social graph? Best left to people without friends. Forgive me if I greet our parent company’s latest upgrade to our site with a mix of hesitation and chagrin: You can now follow other commenters on Valleywag.

But if you take this for what it is — a useful improvement to the site, not a once-every-hundred-years transformation of media — the new feature will likely grow on you. Once you’ve registered with Valleywag, you’ll see more icons next to users’ comments. In addition to the familiar “reply” and “report” buttons, you’ll see a “plus” icon that lets you follow a fellow reader. You can see the people I follow here. On your commenter profile page, you can also see the people who follow you. After you’ve added some people to your followed list, you’ll get notified about the comments they leave, and also the readers they’ve started following. And, oh yes — everyone else will know who fascinates you. Privacy? Surely you expect too much.

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