Old Media's "Next" Innovation and the Unauthorized New York TimesRoulette

If you're a gambling man, I would put a fiver on a lot of Web-based April Fool jokes tomorrow being ChatRoulette-related. Andrey Ternovskiy's idea has, over the past three months, made a lot of pervs very happy indeed--not to mention the general public.

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And, where pervs, comedians and the general public go, so newspaper execs follow. First of all it was The Guardian, where, following a chat by Internet guru Clay Shirky, a Guardian Online software developer called Daniel...