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NetSquared: In the Beginning

Tech Soup

In the beginning, TechSoup’s Marnie Webb, Daniel Ben-Horin, and Billy Bicket created NetSquared to "remix the web for social change." The Iraq War was raging. " The year was 2005. TechSoup was then called CompuMentor. Pope John Paul II died, and Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans. The buzzword then was Web 2.0,

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The Lincoln Project is stealing memes — and the online left isn’t happy

The Verge

“I made this image and the Iraqi child-killing neocons at The Lincoln Project stole it,” Berger tweeted in response last month , an apparent reference to the project-founders’ support for the Iraq War. It’s more about building a community than snatching up and remixing memes. Part of the offense comes from that party switch.

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