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06.02.07Del.icio.us Link Stroll: Getting Buried is OK, Harry Chooses HD-DVD…I realized just today that I've been religiously linking stories to my del.icio.us account for months now and never actually did much with all of that data. I mainly started using del.icio.us to serve as an easy way to share notable stories with my friends, but it's now evolved to the point where I basically just use it to drop breadcrumbs around the net. If I find something interesting that I want to refer back to or read later, my mouse goes straight to my del.icio.us button in Firefox. I thought it would be interesting to do a bit ...
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05.30.07Why We Owe Al Gore for the InternetHow many times have you heard someone joke about Al Gore "inventing" the internet? It's amazing how pervasive this myth is as it's practically folklore by now. Even Engadget's Ryan Block, one of the most commonly associated names with well-informed technology news, perpetuated the myth in this recent post. That post in particular angered me because I normally expect better from Engadget. Thanks to Flickr user joTape85 I hate disinformation, so to correct this all-too-often myth I present to you a quick overview of Gore's contribution to the net (culled from the Gore's Wikipedia entry): He drafted the "High Performance Computing and Communication ...
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05.24.07Why Stanford’s New DMCA Handling Policy Protects Their Reputation, Not Their StudentsJust recently Stanford announced that they will be charging their students fees to reconnect to their network after being removed due to a Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA) notice. This new policy is set to take effect in September with the fees starting at $100 for the first DMCA violation a student receives, which then gradually rises up to $1000 upon repeat offenses. A PDF of the full announcement can be found here. I recommend reading the Ars Technica overview for an excellent distillation of the new policy. For those unfamiliar with DMCA takedown notices, you can see an example from ...
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04.03.07How Price Comparison Site Results in Google Hurt ConsumersAsk yourselves this, when last have you been able to find a decent tech review on Google? Sure, sometimes you may come across one or two reviews from major sites, but in my experience it seems that every time I try and Google for a tech product review I get inundated by dozens of search results from price comparison sites. Pricegrabber, Bizrate, Shopbot--how many of these things do we need?! Even Reseller Ratings, a site which originally served to review online stores, has dedicated much of their site to price comparisons. I'm not at all against consumers empowering themselves ...
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