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Dad’s Rants Become a Twitter Hit. [Wall Street Journal] Let’s start with some fun. This one is absolutely hilarious! Daily quotes from Dad Says on Twitter. “Don’t touch the bacon, it’s not done yet. You let me handle the bacon, and i’ll let you handle…what ever it is you do. I guess nothing.” – (NSFW) [...]

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Can Tech Rescue America’s Big Cities? [Business Week]
Conversations on Google Reader Shared Items Are Booming. [Louis Gray]
How to fix URL-shorteners. [Dave Winer]
Why aren’t we paying for news? [Reflections of a Newsosaur]
Google Rivals Will Oppose Book Settlement. [New York Times]
Copy rights and wrongs. [Doc Searls Weblog]

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Arnon Mishkin, partner with the  Mitchell Madison Group, a consultancy specializing in earnings improvement primarily through cost reduction and operational re-design, recently published an article, “The Fallacy Of The Link Economy” in which he discussed the changing nature of reporting and the level of value captured by links from aggregators back to producers of original [...]

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On A Distributed Microblogging Network. [Taylor Heffernan]
Scarcity, Experience, and A New Seat At An Old Table. [Barrett Garese]
Are You a Digital Sharecropper? [Coding Horror]
Why The AP Plans to Hold Some Web Content Off The Wire. [Nieman]
Locational Privacy, The EFF Weighs In. [O'Reilly Media]
The Case For Nonprofit Journalism? [Brad Rourke's Blog]
Gov 2.0: The Promise Of Innovation. [...]

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Wired: Rate your internet dependency level.
Mahsable: GO Canada! Facebook doesn’t comply with our privacy laws.
EFF: Orwell in 2009 – dystopian rights management. A good piece on the Amazon debacle.
Mashable: Amazon: We won’t remotely delete books again.
O’Reilly Radar: How NPR is embracing open source and open APIs
TechCrunch: If execution is what matters, where does that leave [...]

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Financial Times editor Lionel Barber predicts that most news websites will charge within a year. During a Media Standards Trust event at the British Academy last night Barber stated:
“But I confidently predict that within the next 12 months, almost all news organizations will be charging for content.”
Faced with growing financial challenges most if not all [...]

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