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‘The Web is like Canada’ and 12 other contestants in the Web-simile slam-down!

The Web is like Canada
The Web is like life, where good and evil co-exist
In the great sea of human knowledge, the Web is like a coastal swamp - shallow and chaotic, full of debris and rotting matter, and often stagnant and murky, if nonetheless always crowded and busy with life
…the Web is like the [...]

Facebook doesn’t like Search Insider gaming its new ad system to get Facebooker comments on being targeted as ‘1984′ fans

Here’s the post explaining the experiment.
Here’s the post collecting comments from Facebookers who were targeted by the ad.
This is gaming instance one. I like seeing tools creatively used, but I imagine Facebook is wondering how to control such usage. Should it? Why?

Can you correctly guess the publication year for this Business Week article on the fragmentation of media (with 8 hints and a touch of remixing)?

Choices: 2007, 2006, 2004, 2002 or 2001.
Answer is here, but read the article’s excerpts below and, after evaluating how far the media industry has come, see if you can guess:

Figuring out the right way to send the right message to the right person at the right time is difficult work. It is also [...]