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3:16 AM ET, January 2, 2008

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Paul Boutin / Valleywag:
Denton to pay bloggers based on traffic  —  Gawker Media dark overlord Nick Denton (pictured) has launched a new pay system for all Gawker Media blogs, after testing it at four of his leading sites.  Denton's goal is to discourage “self indulgent” posts and “mind-numbing frequency” in favor of …
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Scott Karp / Publishing 2.0:
Can Pay-For-Performance Improve The Quality Of Content On The Web?
John Battelle / John Battelle's Searchblog:
Predictions 2008  —  Has it been a whole year?  I posted my predictions for 2007 on Jan 1, 2007, and here it is, the first day of 2008, and here we go again.  This year I am going to organize my predictions by companies (just the big ones) and trends.  I'm focusing on advertising …
Ionut Alex Chitu / Google Operating System:
Google Artificially Promotes Recent Web Pages  —  Google paid a big price when it started to index pages faster and show them in the search results minutes after they're published.  The problem is that you can't rank a page that has just been created because it has no backlinks …
E-Commerce Times:
Enterprise Customers to Wireless Carriers: Can You Hear Us Now?  —  Enterprise customers repeatedly ask why the carriers don't just offer packages of millions of voice minutes per month for a flat per-minute rate, or true “pay-as-you-go” plans without the gotcha of a minimum per-user minutes requirement.
Charles Jade / Infinite Loop:
Mac OS X market share sets new record at the end of 2007  —  With the end of 2007, Apple celebrates two years of the Intel Mac, and what a two years it has been.  Web metrics firm Net Applications has just released numbers for December.  For those who care, they do it like this:
Discussion: MacDailyNews
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Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Apple 2.0:
Survey: Mac OS hit record 7.3% share in December; iPhone up 33%  —  Reflecting strong holiday sales of both MacBooks and iPhones, Apple's (AAPL) market share grew sharply in December, as measured by a Net Applications survey released today.  —  The Mac hit a record 7.3% share, up from 6.8% last month.
Zed's So F**king Awesome:
Rails Is A Ghetto  —  I've more or less kept my mouth shut about some of the dumb and plain evil stuff that goes on in the Rails community.  As things would happen though I'd take notes, collect logs, and started writing this little essay.  As soon as I was stable and didn't need Ruby …
Katherine Zoepf / New York Times:
Saudis Confirm Detention of Blogger  —  RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — An outspoken Saudi blogger is being held for “purposes of interrogation,” the Saudi Interior Ministry confirmed Tuesday.  —  Gen. Mansour al-Turki, an Interior Ministry spokesman reached by telephone, said that the blogger …
Dave Methvin / InformationWeek Weblog:
Will Windows Vista Succeed In 2008?  Don't Count On It  —  Conventional wisdom seems to be that existing Microsoft customers won't leapfrog Windows Vista and wait for “Windows Seven,” currently expected in 2010.  There's a feeling of inevitability about the transition …
Discussion: WinBeta
Dave Winer / Scripting News:
It's a security issue, folks  —  In 1980, I signed a deal with a company to market a product I was developing.  The contract required me to turn over the source code, which I did.  One day I went to a meeting at the office of the company, and there on the product manager's desk …
Bernard Lunn / ReadWriteWeb:
The State of Innovation in India  —  10 years ago, in 1997, I wrote an article called Playing Against 5 Aces for a technology magazine in India called Dataquest.  The article looked at how the deck was stacked in favor of American technology companies, because they were playing with 5 Aces in the pack:
Discussion: VentureWoods and Startup Dunia
Jeremy Reimer / Ars Technica:
Patently busy: IBM filing 10 patents/day in technology  —  A recent article in Spectrum, the online magazine of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), rated companies in nine categories (Aerospace and Defense, Computer Peripherals and Storage, Computer Systems and Software …
Discussion: WinBeta
Arn / MacRumors:
Apple Sub Notebook Hints: External Optical Drive, MultiTouch Trackpad?  —  MacRumors has heard reliable confirmation about some features in upcoming Apple notebook due at Macworld San Francisco 2008.  —  A Mac sub-notebook is indeed expected to be coming at the Macworld and, as rumored, will not coming with an internal optical drive.
Discussion: Engadget, Gizmodo and Digg
Philipp Lenssen / Google Blogoscoped:
Google New Year's Logo With Easter Egg  —  Today's Google logo reads “2008” to celebrate new year's, but also honors 25 years of TCP/IP.  Clicking on it leads to a search result for the query January 1 tcp/ip.  This protocol underlying the internet was fully switched to on January 1st, 1983, as Wikipedia's entry on the subject knows.
 
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Steve Rubel / Micro Persuasion:
2008 Digital Trends Part II: Living Room 2.0
Andrew Chen / Futuristic Play:
Are your SEO efforts working, or failing?
Nicole Fabris / ABI Research:
Universal Drives to Take Two-Thirds of $2 Billion High-Definition …
Wallace McLean / CopyrightWatch.ca:
Public Domain Day 2008  —  Welcome to 2008, and let's welcome …
Glyn Moody / redmondmag.com:
Google's Secret Weapon
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Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post:
Electronic Passports Raise Privacy Issues
Shankar Ganesh / MakeUseOf.com:
5 Packs to Transform Windows to other OS
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Jeremiah Owyang / Web Strategy:
A Complete List of the Many Forms of Web Marketing for 2008
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
2008: Web 2.0 Companies I Couldn't Live Without
Ryan Block / Engadget:
Predictions for 2008?  —  Engadgetdamus bids you greetings.
 

 
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Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
Ofcom rules that five GB News programs presented by Conservative politicians have broken its due impartiality rules and puts the channel “on notice”

Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
Authentic Brands licenses Sports Illustrated's publishing rights to The Players' Tribune owner Minute Media for 10 years, with plans to keep the print edition

Todd Spangler / Variety:
YouTuber MrBeast announces a deal with Prime Video for Beast Games, a reality-competition show with 1,000 contestants, promising the winner a $5M cash prize

 
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