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Ken Fisher / Ars Technica:
Why Ad Blocking is devastating to the sites you love — Did you know that blocking ads truly hurts the websites you visit? We recently learned that many of our readers did not know this, so I'm going to explain why. — There is an oft-stated misconception that if a user never clicks on ads …
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Andreessen's Advice To Old Media: “Burn The Boats” — Legend has it that when Cortes landed in Mexico in the 1500s, he ordered his men to burn the ships that had brought them there to remove the possibility of doing anything other than going forward into the unknown.
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Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
And BitTorrent's Oscar Goes To.... District 9 — Tonight, Hollywoods biggest stars will walk the red carpet into the Kodak Theater for the Academy Awards ceremony. — In anticipation of the glamorous Oscar night, we enter the dark side of the movie business to find out which of the 10 nominees …
Mary Lou Jepsen / What's Happening at Pixel Qi:
DIY Pixel Qi Kits — Just a quick note to say the DIY kits from our distributor will be available towards the end of Q2. We will be announcing with them prior to distrbution. Thanks for your patience. — One of the reasons I'm personally committed to doing this goes …
Paul Carr / TechCrunch:
NSFW: Hey, America! Our draconian copyright law could kick your draconian copyright law's ass — I've always had mixed feelings about the DMCA. — On the one hand, as an author, I like that it gives me a way to stop illegal copies of my work being distributed in the US …
murdaFSM / FSMdotCOM:
UK Carrier O2 Updates iPhone Plans And Reveals That iPhone 4G Will Do Video Chat — In the past we talked about the fact that Apple leaks itself, and also we showed you how and why they do that. But before Apple does that, we can benefit from all the mistakes committed by various mobile operators.
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
What Would You Do For $5? — Fiverr is a marketplace for gigs that are priced at $5. Essentially, you can sell and buy tasks for $5. So anyone can create a gig for small service on the site, and visitors can accept gigs as well. Gig prices are fixed at $5.
Adam Pash / Lifehacker:
Rapportive Replaces Gmail Ads with Contact Info, Is Very Cool — Firefox/Chrome: Sure it's nice and all that we get Gmail for free, but those ads to the right of open messages aren't really all that helpful. Free browser add-on Rapportive replaces Gmail ads with contact info about the sender.
Globe and Mail:
Canada and broadband: When ‘behind’ is actually ahead — The United States and Canada occupy places somewhere in regulatory purgatory for having - respectively - scrapped the requirement that phone companies share their lines with broadband competitors, or supposedly pursuing such policies only half-heartedly.
Kate Holton / Reuters:
Four in five believe Web access a fundamental right — LONDON (Reuters) - Four in five adults believe access to the Internet is a fundamental right — with those feelings particularly strong in South Korea and China — and half believe it should never be regulated, according to a global survey.
Gabe Rivera / Techmeme News:
Techmeme now has a share button. Read this post if you can't find it. — Frequent Techmeme readers may have heard of both “Facebook” and “Twitter”, up and coming social networking services where, among other activities, users tend to share links. Sharing is in fact a core activity on these sites …
Gregg Keizer / Computerworld:
Typical Windows user patches every 5 days — 75 Microsoft, third-party patch events each year are a burden most users can't bear, says Secunia — Computerworld - The typical home user running Windows faces the “unreasonable” task of patching software an average of every five days …
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