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What Does it Mean to be American? Why Trump is Just a Blip on the Radar

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So it should have been predictable that when Donald Trump kicked off his campaign for the presidency with race-baiting comments against Mexicans after a long campaign claiming that the first African-American president wasn’t born in the US that I would speak up. Yeah, he was born in San Francisco. You should, too.

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The Series A crunch is hitting now. Have we even noticed?

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She is an award winning journalist and author of two critically acclaimed books, "Once Youre Lucky, Twice Youre Good: The Rebirth of Silicon Valley and the Rise of Web 2.0" (Gotham Books, May 2008) and "Brilliant, Crazy, Cocky: How the Top 1% of Entrepreneurs Profit from Global Chaos" (Wiley, February 2011). Open Sesame! (A November 29, 2012.

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Twitter, Jobs, Democracy & The US Elections

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But something more nuanced is at hand that is worth debating – is the future of the Internet & global communications more open or more closed? As in Tunisia , Egypt , Syria & Iran. By now most people acknowledge that social media helped play a role in candidate Obama’s 2008 election campaign.

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