WikiCity aims to tap hyper-niche markets for news and information. [Neiman Journalism Lab]
FriendFeed Cofounder Paul Buchheit Discusses Facebook Acquisition. [TechCrunch]
Notes from brown bag lunch at Betaworks [Chris Dixon]
Court offers guidelines on when to unmask anonymous posters. [Ars Technica]
Patent Lawsuit Threatens to Clip Twitter’s Wings. [Wired]
Why free ebooks should be part of the plot for writers. [...]
Wendy Seltzer, a Fellow at the Harvard Berkman Center, joined Howard Greenstein from Supernova Hub to discuss patents and policy, law in the Network Age, and a project called the Chilling Effects Clearinghouse.
ChillingEffects.org: Chilling Effects aims to help you understand the protections that the First Amendment and intellectual property laws give to your online [...]
Google Deal With Publishers Raises Privacy Concerns. [NPR]
Some Thoughts on WebFinger and Personal Web Discovery. [25hoursaday]
How Twitter works in theory. [Epeus' Epigone]
Gatekeeping is a losing strategy. [Scripting News]
Financial Times Feels Vindicated by Web Strategy. [New York Times]
Who, really, is The Associated Press accusing of copyright infringement? [Nieman Journalism Lab]
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