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Educators Worried About SOPA/PIPA’s Impact On Education

Another day, and another group of folks points out how SOPA/PIPA will cause problems. This time, it’s a large group of folks involved in the production of educational content and services — including folks associated with MIT’s OpenCourseware project… Continue reading

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MPAA Pretends To Capitulate On SOPA, Will Offer Changes For ‘Legitimate Concerns’

This is barely even worth mentioning, but it’s making some news, so we’ll point it out. The MPAA’s point man on SOPA/PIPA, Michael O’Leary, told the press today that they’re willing to “tone down” the legislation in response to the “legitimate concern… Continue reading

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24 Ways: Unicode Range

24 ways, the annual all-thing-front-end-web advent calendar, kicks off this year with some very clever CSS trickery by the publications founder Drew McLellan.
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DailyDirt: That’s No Moon…

The moon is a nice place to visit, but you probably wouldn’t want to live there. We’ve left quite a bit of space junk behind on the surface of our nearest natural satellite, but maybe someday we will go back and clean up after ourselves. Here are just … Continue reading

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Chick-fil-A Says ‘Eat More Kale’ Slogan Infringes On Its ‘Eat Mor Chikin’

I have a friend who is obsessed with the fast food restaurant Chick-fil-A. Many years ago, he made me travel nearly two hours once just to get lunch there (the nearest one to the Bay Area is way outside of town on the way to Sacramento). Given all th… Continue reading

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Free To Play Video Game Makes Over $2 Million Selling Just One Item [Update: Or Not]

For whatever reason, some people falsely seem to think that part of what I argue is that no one should ever try charging money for digital goods. Nothing is further from the truth. I have said over and over and over again, the important thing is figu… Continue reading

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Keith Olbermann, No Longer Afraid Of Corporate Parent Interference, Willing To Talk On Air About PIPA/SOPA

We’ve noted widespread, mainstream media coverage of the massive problems with both SOPA and PIPA (PROTECT IP). With papers like the NY Times and the LA Times coming out against SOPA, this isn’t just a fringe issue any more. But you know where it’s be… Continue reading

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Data Shows: Removing ‘Rogue Sites’ From Search Won’t Make Much Of A Difference

The legacy entertainment industry absolutely loves to blame Google for its problems. As I’ve noted in the past, it’s mostly a correlation-not-causation error. That is, they see their own difficulty in adapting and sinking revenues (mainly at the reco… Continue reading

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Move the Web Forward

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Best Selling Author Barry Eisler On Copyright, Piracy And Why SOPA/PIPA Are ‘Extremely Disturbing’

I’ve written about best-selling author Barry Eisler a few times, for his recent decisions to turn down a half million dollar publishing deal in order to focus on alternative paths to bringing his books to market (first self-publishing ebooks and then d… Continue reading

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