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Rob's graphic take on some of the big questions of the social web – and all that goes with it.

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September 5, 2008 - 11:28pm
(presenter in a meeting) As this next slide demonstrates, the ROI of setting fire to your money isn't quite as favorable as blowing it all at the track, but still outperforms building a Flash intro page.

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Now, those Squidoo lensmasters - they know how to parTAY

August 4, 2008 - 3:57pm
(party-goer to a friend, observing a group of guests) Good luck getting a word in edgewise... they're all Knol experts.

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As Amazon S3 goes, so goes the world

July 27, 2008 - 1:51pm
(One paleontologist to another, at a dig) At last, the fossil evidence to support our theory! The dinosaurs died off because their cloud computing platform collapsed!

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Maybe we should have used more gradients and rounded corners?

July 24, 2008 - 12:51pm
(one partner to another, looking at an empty office) I don't understand how we could go bankrupt when we had such a kick-ass favicon.

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Revert... with extreme prejudice

July 24, 2008 - 12:44pm
(military officer showing his medals to a child) And this one is for covertly editing my country's Wikipedia entry.

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"Take me now, you magnificent beast" is well under the limit

July 18, 2008 - 5:11pm
(man to his date at a restaurant) I'm so glad you agreed to meet in person. There are some things that just can't be said in 140 characters.

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Short and sweet

July 2, 2008 - 10:24pm
(one person at a laptop, explaining to another person '...And you send your friends a status update exactly one character long.') Caption: Microblogging jumps the shark

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It's still a better reason than whether he wears a flag lapel pin

June 23, 2008 - 10:39pm
(voter to campaign worker) Look, I'm sorry - there's just no way I can vote for a candidate who'd use Comic Sans as body type.

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Funny ha-ha, or funny peculiar, or funny oh-god-we're-all-going-to-die?

June 23, 2008 - 12:48pm
(businessperson to two colleages) Is it just me, or is the tragedy of the commons the funniest goddamn thing ever?

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Competing platforms

June 22, 2008 - 8:42am
(reporter at a political rally) Both campaigns now describe themselves as being in public beta, and say they therefore can't be held responsible for any gaffes, errors or missteps.

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