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Al Jazeera Offers Up Egypt Coverage To Anyone Who Wants To Use It Under Creative Commons License

If you’ve been following the goings on in Egypt over the past week, it’s likely that you at least saw some of Al Jazeera’s rather comprehensive coverage. The Egyptian government was so annoyed by the coverage that it “shut down” Al Jazeera’s Egyptian … Continue reading

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CloudCrowd: An assembly line for content

New “wide-sourcing” apps lower cost, improve timeliness of rote text jobs like translation and proofreading. Originally posted at Rafe’s Radar

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Chinese TV Station Tried Passing Off Top Gun Footage As Training Exercises

Via Gizmodo we learn of the hilarious claim that China Central Television’s news broadcast recently showed some imagery purported to show Chinese military training exercises. The only problem is that some folks recognized the footage as coming from th… Continue reading

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A Look At How Egypt Shut Down The Internet

With Egypt taking the extreme step of shutting down the internet last week, a lot of people started wondering just how does a country go about doing that. According to a report by Ryan Singel at Wired, the answer appears to be with a series of phone c… Continue reading

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Al Jazeera calls for bloggers to spread Egypt news

Following the closure of its Cairo office by the Egyptian government, Arab broadcaster Al Jazeera is asking those in Egypt to use social media to get the word out about the country’s ongoing protest movement. Originally posted at News – Politics and La… Continue reading

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Just Under 100,000 Sued In Mass Copyright Infringement Suits Since Start Of 2010

We’ve been covering the mass copyright infringement lawsuits being filed in the US over the past year or so. Most of them aren’t designed with the idea of actually taking anyone to court, but mainly to threaten people into “settling” (i.e., paying up)… Continue reading

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Lived Fast, Died Young, Left a Tired Corpse

It’s easy to forget just how crazy things got during the Web 1.0 bubble in 2000. That was over ten years ago. For context, Mark Zuckerberg was all of sixteen when the original web bubble popped.

There’s plenty of evidence that we’re entering anothe… Continue reading

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Does Your ISP Care About Protecting Your Privacy?

We recently wrote about how Swedish ISP Bahnhof had announced plans to use a VPN to encrypt all traffic running over its network, thus making any log files it was required to store under data retention rules useless. Slashdot points us to the news tha… Continue reading

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European Commission Sued By European Parliament Member Because Of ACTA Secrecy

It’s no secret that the European Parliament and European Commission have been at odds over ACTA, and specifically over the secrecy around ACTA. However, it’s now come out that a member of the European Parliament is actually suing the European Commissi… Continue reading

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Equal Height Blocks in Rows

A jQuery based solution for equalizing the heights of boxes across the horizontal row they are in. Different rows can have different heights. Originally by Stephen Akins. Continue reading

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