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Owen Thomas


Owen Thomas was the founding executive editor of the Daily Dot before becoming the editor in chief of Read Write. A former managing editor for Valleywag, Thomas also was an executive editor for VentureBeat and now serves as business editor for the San Francisco Chronicle.

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Google reminds us: We’re painting its fence

It's Mark Twain's 176th birthday. Did the search engine really have to put Tom Sawyer on its homepage, though?

On Nov 30, 2011 by Owen Thomas

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Dot Dot Dot: How a media blogger survived a bull Moos

The Tumblr Information Super Highway and the return of blogger Jim Romenesko spur contemplation on the past and future of the Web. 

On Nov 23, 2011 by Owen Thomas

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Take this job and love it: How to quit classy

A high-profile social-media star gets fired, then shows that there's an alternative to Twitter wars with your ex-employer.

On Nov 21, 2011 by Owen Thomas

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Dot Dot Dot: Yahoo’s boring billboard, Twitter’s body count, and virtual car crashes

Yahoo's billboard once advertised a "nice place to stay on the Internet," with year-round vacancy. It's removal this week has left the Dot envisioning virtual car crashes. 

On Nov 17, 2011 by Owen Thomas

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Berkeley newspaper gets campus shooting news out with Storify

Its website overloaded, a campus newspaper gets news out about a shooting in real time using a social storytelling tool.

On Nov 15, 2011 by Owen Thomas

Internet Culture
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Remember, remember, the eleventh of November

A data-visualization expert who works for Twitter shows the information network's good and bad sides.

On Nov 14, 2011 by Owen Thomas

Tech
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Dot Dot Dot: The smell of bastards and truth

The Rum Diary: The Daily Dot's programming summit goes to the movies, leaves with the smell of ink, bastards, and kittens. 

On Nov 10, 2011 by Owen Thomas

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Gang culture for the Digital Age

The online communities we join and foster today thrive in Robert Frost's forbidden spaces. 

On Nov 3, 2011 by Owen Thomas

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The costume culture

What lies beneath those Halloween outfits speaks volumes about who we are.

On Oct 27, 2011 by Owen Thomas

IRL
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The girl with no name

Why the Daily Dot hasn't named that girl in the sex video everyone's tweeting about.

On Oct 20, 2011 by Owen Thomas

IRL
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How games play people

The maker of FarmVille, Zynga, is "pooping diamonds," so now Silicon Valley's best and brightest are turning everything into a game. That doesn't mean the rest of us are winners.

On Oct 12, 2011 by Owen Thomas

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The Internet’s cult of complaint

Got a problem? Join the rest of the Internet. From the iPhone to Rebecca Black, a fetish for fussing is what unites us.

On Oct 5, 2011 by Owen Thomas

Internet Culture
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The Storify of our lives

A string of status updates doesn't add up to a complete narrative of the self. Let's seek tools that let us reclaim our rightful roles as storytellers.

On Sep 28, 2011 by Owen Thomas

IRL
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Fired Starbucks barista: I was just venti-ing

Christopher Christwell says he's a "people pleaser." So why is he still in a froth about the coffee chain's customers?

On Sep 22, 2011 by Owen Thomas

IRL
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The best staff meeting ever

The Daily Dot assembles its troops. Can we kill ourselves with kindness?

On Sep 21, 2011 by Owen Thomas

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