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December 05, 2006


revenge of the freebie
Posted in :: Publishing ::

THE BROWSER: YouTube sees user rebellion - May. 3, 2006

"A bitter Nathan Weinberg at InsideGoogle says that he was kicked off YouTube two months ago. Weinberg chronicles his dissatisfaction with the free (and reportedly money-losing) service, ultimately deciding that he has only one thing left to do: "Ruin YouTube" by systematically reporting all of the site's traffic-generating but copyright-violating videos. Microsoft's (Research) Don Dodge, who formerly worked at Napster (Research), adds a been there, done that post to the fray, noting sagely: "User-generated content is very difficult to manage and control.""

ya think?

Posted at 10:14 AM, December 05, 2006
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The Wisdom of Spammers
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The big Digg rig | CNET News.com

"People are trying to basically take advantage of Digg by artificially promoting a story with fake diggers or some other methodology of link swapping," Digg Chief Executive Jay Adelson said.
Posted at 10:03 AM, December 05, 2006
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It occurs to me
Posted in :: Apropos of Nothing ::

If anyone knows how to fix my front page, and felt like sending me a stylesheet, I woudl gratefully implement it.

Posted at 09:52 AM, December 05, 2006
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