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If You Want To Charge For News, Can You Answer These Questions? | Techdirt I can't get enough of this debate...
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The White House - Open for Questions The first crowdsourced press conference in history. Awesome.
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Davidson grad Tom Marshburn heads to space (DavidsonNews.net) Go (Space) Cats.
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How Fail Went From Verb To Interjection (NYT) The etymology of fail.
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Lawsuits Question After-Hours Demands of Email and Cellphones - WSJ.com What does and doesn't count as work these days?Breakfast Can Wait. The Day’s First Stop Is Online. (NYT) There will definitely be...
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"Chris and Malcolm Are Wrong" Brad Burnham of Union Square Ventures provides a compelling third perspective in the "Free" debate.
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A Geek Out Moment: Our Tiny Blue Atom Planet
I opened up a Google Earth link on the web today called “Satellite Database” (Google Earth required to view). I patiently waited a few seconds for the program to open and load the file. When the...
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Go Put Your Records On: A Review of iTunes LP
A while ago, I suggested that physical books may become to reading what vinyl records have become to music: produced in limited numbers, used by the very few who know it to be the best quality...
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From The Archives: reCAPTCHA and Spare Cycles
This morning, Google announced that it will be acquiring reCAPTCHA, a company devoted to putting the few seconds you spend solving CAPTCHAs – those funny puzzles you fill out on Ticketmaster and other...
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Ring Them Bells
Sometimes the only way to break the silence is by playing music at a ridiculously loud volume. Now is one of those times. I’ve been absent for the blogosphere for quite some time, tending to...
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Rebooting Justice
Yesterday, I had an envelope in the mail from my dad. I opened it up to find a photocopy of the “Opening Statement” of the Summer 2009 issue of Litigation, the official journal of that section of the...
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Google Reader Gets Magical
I try not to spend too much time pimping Google’s products in this space, but let’s face it: we make really cool stuff, and whether I work for the company or not, I absolutely adore most of our...
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Worrying About the Real Time Web
Paul Carr at TechCrunch as a long and thoughtful post questioning triumphialism about the real-time web. Carr ties together experiences at a recent Weezer show (similar to the mobile-phone-armed...
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In Science, FAIL = WIN
In April, I wrote about a little debate some coworkers and I were having about whether politics could be studied scientifically, and whether that approach was valid (I said it could be, and that it was...
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Reconsidering Personal Branding as a Concept and a Practice
A thought on personal branding from my friend Luis Sandoval, from his latest newsletter: All of us have a level of personal value that in today’s connected community driven conversations, we can...
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Ideas About Ideas
The New York Times recently issued the ninth edition of its annual Ideas feature for its magazine. I’ve read through most of the entries and found several really fascinating; others were also...
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Keeping It All In Perspective
One of my favorite people that I follow on Twitter is Genevieve Spencer. Her tweets are extremely brief, and she writes pretty much exclusively about her day to day life. Sometimes she just comments...
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“It’s Always Been My Dream to Own a Joyless Moneypit”
As Ezra Klein neatly summarizes in his link to this story (an old link, but worth revisiting), “Opening a coffee shop is really hard.” And yet, be honest: some part of you has imagined doing it. I’m...
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FitBit: Bringing The Prius Effect to Personal Fitness
In September 2008, TechCrunch held its second annual TechCrunch50 event. The multi-day conference brings together early-stage startups to give demos of their products in front of a panel of tech...
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