The Daily Report
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Frank Rich and the price of paywalls for writers
“INCREASINGLY, the motivations of writers and the motivations of the businesses they work for are at odds with each other. Journalists, enabled by the web, are increasingly defining success according to exposure, and news organizations…
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Like and Friend are broken in Facebook.
I CANNOT LIKE Happy Cog’s new Facebook page, due to Facebook’s unexplained and arbitrary limitation on how many things a user is allowed to Like. In Facebook’s world, it seems I Like too many things,…
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Episode 40: Andy Rutledge
ANDY RUTLEDGE (personal site, Twitter) is our guest on The Big Web Show Episode 40, recording today, March 3, before a live internet audience at 5by5.tv/live. Andy is a designer, composer, author, speaker, bonsai artist,…
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Sippey on Digital Archiving
Future generations of digital product people would benefit from this approach to digital archiving; to understand the decisions we made, the tradeoffs we had to live with, and the context in which we operated. It’s…
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Five Milestone Font Families
Departures: Five Milestone Font Families by Emigre
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FTC to investigate iTunes in-app purchases
I’m looking at you, Smurfs. Parental complaints over iTunes App Store in-app purchases in children’s games such as “Smurfs’ Village” have prompted the Federal Trade Commission to look into the matter, according to a new…
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New Sources of Social Awkwardness
MY 6-year-old connected her iPad Smurfs game to my Facebook account, and now she’s sending “I Smurf You” cards to my Facebook contacts.
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A Very Short Story
MY DAUGHTER sat laughing in the dark, her face and hands covered in blood. Just a nosebleed but it aged me 10 years.
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Sinatra Prototyping, Web App Encryption: A List Apart No. 324
In Issue No. 324 of A List Apart, for people who make websites: Web Cryptography: Salted Hash and Other Tasty Dishes by LYLE MULLICAN One of the most powerful security tools available to web developers…
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It’s My Tumblr (and I’ll blog if I want to).
Enjoy Kafka For Lovers.
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From Those Wonderful Folks Who Gave You Meow Mix
I’VE TRAINED my cats to think they’re in charge, and to think they exact a tribute of two breakfasts from me each morning. Initially I feed them each half a small can of salmon. The…
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Ignighter, a Dating Site, Finds Love in India – NYTimes.com
“In January 2010, we made the decision that we are an Indian dating site,” Mr. Sachs says. And now, with almost two million users — and 7,000 more signing up daily — Ignighter is considered…
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Hold off upgrading MobileMe iCal
UNLESS YOU ENJOY waking up to a blank calendar, hold off upgrading MobileMe iCal for now. Prior to the latest update, I enjoyed flawless, seamless calendar integration across my desktop and laptop computers, iPhone, and…
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Borders’ Bankruptcy Shakes Publishing Industry
“After Borders, the 40-year-old retail chain that helped define the age of the book superstore, filed for bankruptcy protection on Wednesday, the struggling book industry was left wondering what was next — and maybe even…
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Episode 39: Crowd Fusion’s Brian Alvey live on The Big Web Show
BRIAN ALVEY (home, Twitter) is our guest on The Big Web Show Episode 39, recording live Thursday, February 16, at 12:00 PM Eastern at 5by5.tv/live. Brian is CEO of Crowd Fusion, a publishing platform that…