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October 13, 2013, 12:45 AM

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Eric Schmitt / New York Times:
Walter Frick / HBR.org:
How Twitter's Leadership Drama Explains its Success  —  One founder pushed aside in the early days of the company, his name scrubbed from its founding story.  Another ousted from the CEO role by a co-founder, former boss, and seed investor.  That founder himself booted from the CEO role later on by VCs …
More: Business Insider and FortuneTweets: @mikeisaac and @davemcclureThanks:@wfrick
Brian Fung / Washington Post:
The Internet's best hope for a Do Not Track standard is falling apart.  Here's why.  —  Should businesses be forced to stop tracking your movements on the Internet?  —  It sounds like a simple question.  But judging by the growing despair among members of a diverse group assigned …
Joseph Walker / Wall Street Journal:
State Parole Boards Use Software to Decide Which Inmates to Release  —  Programs look at prisoners' biographies for patterns that predict future crime  —  At the Hutchins State Jail in Dallas, corrections officials collect biographical data on inmates that will be evaluated by the state parole board.
Orin Kerr / The Volokh Conspiracy:
Lavabit Challenges Contempt Order in the Fourth Circuit: An Analysis of Its Arguments  —  Today Lavabit filed a brief before the Fourth Circuit challenging a civil contempt order for its refusal to turn over its encryption key that the government wants to enable the government to conduct surveillance of Edward Snowden.
More: New Yorker, ZDNet and Ars TechnicaTweets: @pogowasright
Jemima Kiss / Guardian:
Kevin Systrom, Instagram's man of vision, now eyes up world domination  —  The man who sold his photo-sharing app to Facebook for $1bn at the age of 28 talks about his continuing ambition for Instagram  —  Kevin Systrom might be the luckiest man in technology.
John Koetsier / VentureBeat:
TorSearch launches to be the Google of the hidden Internet  —  Nov. 12 - 13, 2013  —  The newest search engine in the world is hidden in the shadows of the Internet, but it shines a light on those shadows that ordinary search engines like Google, Bing, and DuckDuckGo can't.

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