From the monthly archives:

August 2009

Global Search Market Draws More than 100 Billion Searches per Month. [Comscore]
In Defense of the Punditocracy. [Anil Dash]
It’s not AT&T. It’s not Apple. It’s just Twitter. [Stardust Global Ventures]
Web Squared: Web 2.0 Five Years On. [Tim O’Reilly and John Battelle]
Wikipedia Looks Hard at Its Culture. [New York Times]
Lines are blurring in strange new world of [...]

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The blogosphere is up in arms on this one. If you’re not familiar with Cybersecurity Bill S. 773 it would permit the president to seize temporary control of private-sector networks during a “cybersecurity emergency”. Reporter Declan McCullagh (CNET) obtained an excerpt of the 55-page revised draft stated:
“The new version would allow the president to “declare [...]

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Daniel Jacobson and Rob Bole presented NPR’s API to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) explaining what API’s are, why they are useful, and the particular reasons why NPR built the ones that they have. What’s amazing about the presentation is the growth numbers, with nearly 30M requests since launch and API activity almost doubling [...]

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Howard Greenstein interviews Gigi B. Sohn, President and Co-Founder of Public Knowledge, a Washington, D.C.-based public interest group working to defend citizens’ rights in the emerging digital culture.

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No More Beta Codes: Lazyfeed Is Open for Everyone. [Louis Gray]
Hyperdistribution. [Buzzmachine]
New Study Finds Grassroots Enterprise Social Media Often Works Best. [Craig Newmark]
Interview With William Patry: Understanding How The Copyright Debate Got Twisted. [TechDirt]
GooseGrade Uses Crowdsourcing To Edit Website Copy. [Tech Crunch]
The Government and the Web. [NYT]
Arterial, crowdsourced traffic info comes to Google Maps. [Ars [...]

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Truly social data. [FluidDB]
Marching through quicksand. [Lessons Learned]
Time to retire the term “blogger”? [Scott Rosenberg, Wordyard]
Is Being In the Mobile Biz License to Ignore the Internet? [John Battelle]
Why Free Thought Is Sexy But We Hate It. [How to Split an Atom]
How Whole Foods boycott groups are using social media to organize. [Bloggasm]

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Watch an informative and entertaining WordCamp ‘09 presentation from Matt Cutts about SEO, reputation, relevance, and more.

Matt Cutts discusses search issues and offers advice on website visibility in Google on his personal blog. Follow Matt on Twitter at @mattcutts.

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The video runtime is 50:00, if you don’t have time there’s a great summary by MG Siegler on TechCrunch.

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I absolutely enjoy following online discussion and debate. Egos certainly come into play, thus the entertainment value, while valid points are positioned on both sides of the fence. So I was pleasantly surprised today to see Neville Hobson and Paul Seaman engage in an online debate about social media, its use, and the impact on [...]

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