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" I don't think you can look at my history and say they love me to death in Silicon Valley. "
Kara Swisher
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" It seemed like most of the memories faded before they had time to form. And after a while, my life with my father seemed like a familiar story or a distant dream. "
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" In Greek mythology, Cassandra was given the gift of prophecy, except - due to her rejection of Apollo's affections - nobody would ever believe her warnings. "
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" I know: I am a freakish geek. Or is that a geekish freak? "
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" As I have said many times - I like Facebook. I think it is well built and run. It's cool. I think it is, in its next-step way, even visionary. "
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" Equipped with two cell phones - one for work and another for home - I like to think of myself as a kind of 21st-century digital pioneer, ready to network, fax, page, e-mail and - oh, yes - talk at will. "
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" BoomTown has long been a big fan of Martha Stewart. "
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" It's the nature of journalism to need to be close to your subjects. And either you're able to be tough on them, which a lot of us are, or you get in bed with them, and some people do. "
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" Casting my fate to the heavens, quite literally, I decided to go wireless. Completely wireless. All wireless, all the time, everywhere. "
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" I don't mean to sound like a touchy-feely California type here, but I knew that I could finally get over the death of my father only by having kids of my own. "
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" Despite my so-so-experience with the iPhone, I do love its touchscreen technology, a feature I miss with my standard-issue BlackBerry. "
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" I think the way to be an influential journalist is to be accurate and to be fair and to get things right and to really characterize things in an honest way, versus being really snarky or cheerleading. "
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" It's easy to forget the ever-plodding eBay with all the noise made by the more lithe and lively Web 2.0 companies. "
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" While having a profound impact on the development of values is surely an important job of a good parent, force-feeding opinions to them is not. "
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" My telephone manners were, well, offensive to some. As I lugged my cell around, yammering away, I noticed cold stares from passersby who viewed me as a kind of techno-terrorist, or at least incredibly rude. "
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" I'm focused on getting to a place where we can prove that journalism can make good money on the web. "
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" A Microsoft-Yahoo merger is a deal only an investment banker could love. "
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" It is hard to look away from the swirl of media that the untimely and tragic death of Heath Ledger has engendered, and the Internet has jacked the frenzy into overdrive. "
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" As I have seen with a lot of companies I have covered, acquisition interest can be a heady experience, and not always in a good way. "
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" We really spend a lot of time on building relationships. And so when everyone is like, 'How do you break so many stories?' it's because I build relationships. I do it the old-fashioned way, and I build sourcing relationships, and then I take advantage of those relationships over time. "
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" Here's the thing: I fell impossibly in love with the Internet from the minute I saw it in action in the early 1990s. From that moment on, I have studied it, analyzed it, reported on it, and, mostly, have not been without it as a part of my daily life since. "
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" Now I am not against widgets, those small third-party applications that people can put on their Web pages on social networks like Facebook and MySpace, in general. "
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" As anyone who has covered the company for any length of time knows, Yahoo's record on major decision-making has been akin to a hippie commune - a lot of wrangling internally in a culture where everyone seems to have a voice and a reticence to push the button to launch. "
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" I love all my scoop children. But consistency and persistence is really my aim. "
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" Is a family just the strict definition of a small and discrete unit, or is it about the larger organic group that inevitably grows up around the smaller one? "
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" It's not all silliness, as interactive SXSW is filled with aggressive learning, discussing, and a whole lot of futurizing. "
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