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Al Gore Just Outsourced Your Job To Twitter [Layoffs]
Posted on November 11, 2008
Current, the bizarre TV channel co-founded by Al Gore, laid off 60 staff last night. Supposedly the hippies in the San Francisco headquarters office are being shoved aside in favor of the bloodsuckers in Los Angeles. But even the survivors better watch their backs, because a company statement makes it sound like they might eventually be replaced by the robots and RSS feeds that fueled Current's awful, awful election-night coverage: Current's new programming strategy expands upon its pioneering use of viewer created content to include additional opportunities for participation, creating a far...
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