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23rd December 2007 - Link Blog

5 ways to break past the San Francisco echo-chamber. I like the idea of using the square-footage allocated to different things in Walmart to get an idea for what’s popular outside of geekdom.

Posted 23rd December 2007 at 9:37 am

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