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links for 2007-04-13

• Kurt Vonnegut, Novelist Who Caught the Imagination of His Age, Is Dead at 84 [New York Times]
  RIP Kurt Vonnegut
• JUSTIN.TV: How webcam sex nearly saved the world [Valleywag]
  Justin Kan’s “lifecasting” pauses at the intimate moment! While disappointing to many Justin TV viewers, the life-in-the-comments on Justin TV during this blackout illustrate quite an interesting little community!
  (tags: justintv socialsoftware digitalculture surveillance)
• Victor Keegan: To the average Joe, blogs aren’t cutting it [Technology | Guardian Unlimited Technology]
  “… for all the undisputed influence of blogs, the figures also show that blogging is still very much a minority sport. … The number of English-language blogs is under 24m, a comparatively small proportion of the population of the US (around 300m)…”
  (tags: blog web2.0 stats)