Source: freepress.net
Senator John Kerry: I voted against this lousy bill for two reasons: because net neutrality and internet build-out are crucial to building a more modern and fair Information Society, and both were pushed aside by the Republicans.
Source: apnews.excite.com
It's called free speech dude. In order for him to prove defamation on this, he has to prove that they knew the information they posted about him was false and yet still posted it.
Source: kotaku.com
Xbox 360 for $350 Dell's running a special over on their site right now, offering the Xbox 360 premium box for $360, another $10 off at checkout and free shipping. Sounds like a deal to me.
We have all seen it. The day you log into newsvine after being gone for a week. You look at the conversation tracker, and have a heart attack. My tracker read something like 400 the other day, and now is reading 357.
Source: Jon Henshaw
Snipplr provides an easy way for web designers and developers to store and share code snippets. It also works with TextMate, one of the best text editors for Mac OS X, and allows you to retrieve and post snippets right in the application.
Source: money.cnn.com
Here's a pretty inspiring article about how to start your own company.
Source: ojr.org
Robert Niles: Have you started your own online news site? Is it making money (even just a little)? If so, OJR wants to hear from you.
Source: press release
eStalking.com takes a new approach on the standard "profile". No more is it just a static page for someone to put their best food forward. Now no one's profile is safe. In fact, on eStalking, anyone can edit anyone's profile.
Source: spong.com
Sony Expects PS3 Game Prices from $59 to $99
Source: v03.browsershots.org
Great site. This should help exponentially in browser-testing your site.
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Early this morning two senior editors of WashingtonPost.com spoke to a small intimate group of web professionals on creating a newsroom in the 21st century.
(Original at ThatMatt) So after my post yesterday there was quite a bit of, how should I say this, @!$%#ing about the write up (see the comments here and here). So I figured I should probably try to clear a few things up, hopefully putting all of this to rest.
Source: Digital Web Magazine
You're a designer, not an accountant, right? Unfortunately, running your own business involves dealing with finances as well as fonts. This week, Business End Columnist Nick Gould offers a crash course on making COGS (cost of goods sold) part of your financial toolkit. Read more
Source: blogprofit.net
I was checking out the expanded Digg, and was intrigued by some of the numbers in a thread about Digg users based on a profile at Federated Media, which manages Digg's advertising.
Source: dneiwert.blogspot.com
David Neiwert, in 'An open letter to my fellow journalists,' invokes Lars-Erik Nelson's warning that "The enemy isn't conservatism. The enemy isn't liberalism. The enemy is bull@!$%#."
Source: msnbc.msn.com
Newsweek highlights fears that Markos Moulitsas Zuniga's popularity will pull the party too far to the left. "We're not sitting around waiting for the so-called professionals to give us power in the party," he tells Newsweek. "We're taking it for ourselves."
Source: ethosplanning.com
with new search engines coming out? Should information providers try to readjust what engines people use to find their information?
Source: marylandmedia.com
Microformats are here to stay, or so it seems with the announcement of Yahoo! Local’s support. However, should I care about Microformats right now? This was the question of debate among my colleagues today over lunch.
Source: thinkmac.net
We are all subject to errors... and in the new release of the digg about page, there is a name typo. I do it all the time.. but its cool to still see people are humans. Plus there is no spell check in graphics...
Source: cbc.ca
It is often said that knowledge is power. The Internet Generation has grown up, and is sharing personal information online to a degree unheard of in the past. It seems common sense that we ought to be concerned that bad people can use this information for nefarious purposes.
Source: Digg Blog
The new version of Digg, popular social bookmarking website, has been unveiled. Now that Digg allows for a broader range of stories, Newsvine may be up for some serious competition.
Source: thinkvitamin.com
Do you have what it takes to start your own web company? Answer our seven questions to find out.
Source: salon.com
Two former AT&T; employees say the telecom giant has maintained a secret, highly secure room in St. Louis since 2002. Intelligence experts say it bears the earmarks of a National Security Agency operation. [free day pass req'd]
Source: MP3gif
The GIF format allows for an "application extension block" - an arbitrary section for applications that isn't checked by the GIF parser. Meanwhile, Winamp and other MP3 players ignore all data in the file that isn't marked as an MP3 block.
Source: MPSOFTWARE
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