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72 “everyone sees the same thing”: Carl Bialik, “Look at This Article. It’s One of Our Most Popular,” Wall Street Journal, May 20, 2009.
73 “little need to share marketing information”: Andrew Alexander, “Making the Online Customer King at The Post,” Washington Post, July 11, 2010, accessed Dec. 11, 2010, www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/07/09/AR2010070903802.html.
73 “whether you want to hear this or not”: Nicholas Negroponte, interview with author, Truckee, CA, Aug. 5, 2010.
73 “Gawker’s Big Board is a scary extreme”: Professor Michael Schudson, interview with author, New York, NY, Aug. 13, 2010.
73 stories about the war in Afghanistan: Simon Dumenco, “Google News Cares More About Facebook, Twitter and Apple Than Iraq, Afghanistan,” Advertising Age, June 23, 2010, accessed Feb. 9, 2011, http://adage.com/mediaworks/article?article_id=144624.
74 “not to pursue some important stories”: Alexander, “Making the Online Customer King.”
75 “periodically be alarmed when there is a crisis?”: Shirky, interviewed by Jay Rosen.
75 “consequences of conjoint and interacting behavior”: John Dewey, The Public and Its Problems (Athens, OH: Swallow Press, 1927), 126.
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77 “contact with persons dissimilar to themselves”: John Stuart Mill, The Principles of Political Economy (Amherst, MA: Prometheus Books, 2004), 543.
77 “reminds one more of a sleepwalker’s”: Arthur Koestler, The Sleepwalkers: A History of Man’s Changing Vision of the Universe (New York: Penguin, 1964), 11.
78 “but I don’t want to talk here”: Henry Precht, interview with Ambassador David E. Mark, Foreign Affairs Oral History Project, Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training, July 28, 1989, accessed Dec. 14, 2010, http://memory.loc.gov/service/mss/mssmisc/mfdip/2005%20txt%20files/2004mar02.txt.
78 the two men planned a meeting: Ibid.
78 “all I want is my money”: Ibid.
78 “I was snookered”: John Limond Hart, The CIA’s Russians (Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2003), 132.
78 defect and resettle in the United States: Ibid., 135.
79 James Jesus Angleton ... was skeptical: Ibid., 140.
79 CIA’s documents indicated otherwise: “Yuri Ivanovich Nosenko, a Soviet defector, Died on August 23rd, Aged 80,” Economist, Sept. 4, 2008, accessed Dec. 14, 2010, www.economist.com/node/12051491.
79 subjected to polygraph tests: Ibid.
80 sent to the Russian front as punishment: Richards J. Heuer Jr., “Nosenko: Five Paths to Judgment,” Studies in Intelligence 31, no. 3 (Fall 1987).
80 set him up in a new identity: David Stout, “Yuri Nosenko, Soviet Spy Who Defected, Dies at 81,” New York Times, Aug. 27, 2008, accessed Dec. 14, 2010, www.nytimes.com/2008/08/28/us/28nosenko.html?scp=1&sq=nosenko&st=cse.
80 news of his death was relayed: Ibid.
81 full of laudatory comments: Richards J. Heuer Jr., Psychology of Intelligence Analysis (Alexandria, VA: Central Intelligence Agency, 1999).
81 “analysts should be self-conscious”: Ibid., xiii.
82 secondhand and in a distorted form: Ibid., xx–xxi.
82 “To achieve the clearest possible image”: Ibid., xxi–xxii.
83 “predictably irrational”: Dan Ariely, Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions (New York: HarperCollins, 2008)
83 figuring out what makes us happy: Dan Gilbert, Stumbling on Happiness (New York: Knopf, 2006).
83 only one part of the story: Kathryn Schulz, Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error (New York: HarperCollins, 2010).
84 “Information wants to be reduced”: Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable (New York: Random House, 2007), 64.
85 quickly converted into schemata: Doris Graber, Processing the News: How People Tame the Information Tide (New York: Longman, 1988).
85 “condensation of all features of a story”: Ibid., 161.
85 woman celebrating her birthday: Steven James