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Rachel Sklar

Profession : Lawyer

Birth : December 8, 1972

Jessica Jackley has a gift for making people want to fork over their cash. To total strangers. Far, far away.

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There's a tendency, when the offspring of a famous person does something notable, to define them by their more-famous parent.

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If anyone was going to write the definitive account of what the 2008 election meant for women, it would be Rebecca Traister.

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I use iTunes for downloading music, but I always decline when prompted to update this or that new version.

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Twitter is all about user experience - the fact that it is so easy, so clean, so unencumbered has won it so many users and fans, for so many different reasons.

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I have to say, I worry about Twitter. Not that it will survive - they don't need my blessing for that - but that it will stay the kind of open, community-enhancing-and-enabling site that made it flourish at the outset.

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While I know that Twitter is doing just fine with or without my 140-character contributions, I also know that people are fickle, and when using something becomes too annoying, they stop.

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Good Lord - if I couldn't multitask, I don't know what I'd do.

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My first introduction to New Orleans was from the air, flying high over the city with a view of the land - and water - below.

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Flying over New Orleans on our approach, I got it. There was no view of land without water - water in the great looming form of Lake Pontchartrain, water cutting through in tributaries, water flowing beside a long stretch of highway, water just - everywhere.

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I love the way they look. I love the way they feel. I love saying the word again and again: Jeggings! Jeggings! Jeggings!

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Oddly, a search for 'jeggings' in my email inbox shows that my first exposure to the phenomenon came from - wait for it - Mike Allen of 'Politico,' who helpfully explained the concept on December 20, 2009.

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It is a pet peeve of mine when people throw around arguments citing 'Fair Use' and yet fail to actually explain what a fair use argument actually is.

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Put simply, the doctrine of 'Fair Use' applies to content republished from copyrightable material and how much of that content is, literally, fair to use.

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For video clips, you can always assume that there is a creative component since you are literally dealing with production values.

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On NBC, MSNBC and Hulu, you can size and cut clips to whatever length you want. Do online clips affect the TV market? I'm guessing not really.

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Stuart Blumberg is suddenly an authority on the modern - or, dare we say, post-modern - family, thanks to the critically-acclaimed debut of his new film, 'The Kids Are All Right.'

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I don't mind other guys seeing movies I want to see and then writing about them. That's fine, especially when it's the New Yorker's Anthony Lane, because he knows this stuff pretty well.

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Craig Newmark looks like the kind of guy who would help you move your apartment, sell your furniture, get a job, or help you find that cute girl you saw on the subway.

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Myself, I really like the iPad mounted as a frame, with a happy slideshow cycling through.

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