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Does it work?

Via Coudal.

While this is a more or less tactful way to ask, I would revise the statement to say “Which example, if either, applies to you?” But before that I would decide not to ask people to answer this question.

A year before he was banned from leaving the United States, U.S. actor, singer, and activist Paul Robeson gave a rousing performance of the Chinese national anthem in Europe, according to a YouTube user.

Thanks Adriane of Pizza Buffet.

Via Milkfat Blog and Felipe’s shared Google Reader

I just realized the man who had been competing with my online world for top search results for years is not actually alive. The fight has not been fair.

In an obituary in The Independent, he was called “one of the last great polymaths of British Archaeology, in the true Victorian tradition of the word.”

Graham Webster died seven years ago next week.

In 76 entries on a query for “graham webster,” four are me. One says I am an intern at Campus Progress, which was never true, but that entry has derived parts of my resume, including the real job I had there. The others remember me as president of a foundation, as a reporter for a place where I really was a (reporter) intern, and as affiliated with the Medill School of Journalism chapter of the U.S. National Press Photographers Assocation. What I wonder is whether this entry will someday cause their bots to make a single profile out of me. When they find gwbstr.com they might have more information, though apparently I don’t list everything a robot can cull from the internet. The other 72 references are someone else. What does ZoomInfo say about you?

A pretty good story about a woman who meets her neighbors, who sound like people she would not necessarily have met before.