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The monetization paradox (or why Google is not my friend) (Charles Stross)
The continual plaint in newspapers around the world is that the news media are in big trouble. Au contraire: what's in trouble is their monetization model.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 470 posts.
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Offline Book "Lending" Costs U.S. Publishers Nearly $1 Trillion
Hot on the heels of the story in Publisher's Weekly that "publishers could be losing out on as much $3 billion to online book piracy" come...
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Google Agrees to Censor Encyclopedia Dramatica Entry in Australia
Google self-censors certain results in countries like France or Germany, and Australia as well. The Sydney Morning Herald writes:
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Ageism is becoming an issue for me
By ageism, I mean people saying that my age makes me less intelligent, informed, clued, aware, whatever. It's never rational, not part of an intelligent discussion. I can't probe the people to find out what they mean. I assume they're expressing some frustration and projecting it on me.
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Avatar: The Holocaust We Will Not See
Avatar half-tells a story we would all prefer to forget
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HN long term change
HN visitors are generally worried that HN is changing, and most of the worries center (obviously) around whether or not it is changing for the worse.
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"Dabblers and Blowhards" - hackers are nothing like painters [2005]
About two years ago, the Lisp programmer and dot-com millionaire Paul Graham wrote an essay entitled Hackers and Painters , in which he argues that his approach to computer programming is better described by analogies to the visual arts than by the phrase "computer science".
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A new approach to China
Insights from Googlers into our products, technology, and the Google culture
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Almost a third of our portfolio is under attack by patent trolls.
Union Square Ventures is a venture capital firm based in New York City.
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What boyfriends and girlfriends search for on Google
Are we really in control when making decisions? In his book, Dan Ariely unmasks the subtle but powerful tricks that our minds play on us.
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