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RSS, as a format and an idea, grew directly out of an internet culture that many people online today know nothing about: Usenet.
Annalee Newitz
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At last we've seen the first installment of Joss Whedon's new web series, 'Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog,' and it's sweeter than we'd ever imagined.
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I founded io9 back in 2008, and I watched it journey from the farthest reaches of space to its current home under this atmosphere bubble on Ceres.
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You've probably heard the stories about how io9 got its name. And maybe you know that io9 co-founder Charlie Jane Anders and I were inspired by Kathy Keeton, whose groundbreaking magazine 'Omni' combined coverage of real science with science fiction. But what you probably don't know is how unlikely it was that io9 ever succeeded at all.
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io9 was the last standalone site that Gawker Media ever launched. It was born at a time when many of the company's other famous sites, from Consumerist and Wonkette to Fleshbot and Idolator, were being sold off or shuttered.
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You are ruled by change whether you like it or not, and io9's future path lies with joining a larger site that covers technology as well as science and science fiction.
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When I was a lecturer at UC Berkeley, I wrote a book about monsters.
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When I was a policy analyst at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, I became obsessed with end user license agreements.
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When I was a journalist at Wired, I convinced a doctor to implant an RFID tracking device in my arm.
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The first time I saw 'Star Wars,' I got so excited that I threw up.
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We sometimes allow writers to publish their work without editing on io9.
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Once you've worked as a writer and editor in the world of social media for a decade, the way I have, you start to notice patterns.
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