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Today’s most popular headlines are Digg users take revenge on girl who dumped beau via Facebook (22,972 views today), The miserable millionaires (1,408) and Cisco’s new office layout could cause back injuries (1,126). Today’s most discussed stories are Google laying off contractors to cut costs (7 comments), Wired in 1,200 words (7) and Cisco’s new office layout could cause back injuries (7).
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An extraordinary public slap, rarely seen in the genteel world of magazine publisher Time Inc.: Fortune appears to have momentarily taken executive editor Josh Quittner’s Techland blog away from him and handed it to rival tech writer David Kirkpatrick. Quittner’s recent blog rant about Facebook’s Beacon was wrongheaded enough, but entirely undeserving of this humiliation — republishing, duplicatively, a Fortune.com column by Kirkpatrick in Quittner’s blog. Kirkpatrick, left, declared that Quittner, right, had been “silenced” on the Facebook issue. He went on to tear apart, at length, Quittner’s argument. All the more shaming, because Kirkpatrick is — how to put this gently? — a laughingstock among his colleagues.
None of them want to say anything, though. Why? By playing the house sycophant, Kirkpatrick takes the pressure off the rest of Fortune’s staff to write the bootlicking tech-CEO profiles he’s known for — like his recent mash note to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Kirkpatrick’s probing analysis of Zuckerberg? He’s “nice.”
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