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  • The enshittification of the web in one image – The Interconnected
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    But this screenshot right here of the Financial Times site posting a Cory Doctorow article about enshittification is a work of art. Yes, we’ve proven that quality news needs to be paid. Yes, subscriptions are a good way to do that. And yes, cookies do often keep your computer secure. But putting an article on enshittification behind both a paywall and a giant cookie management dialog asking you to accept cookies from FT and their 27 technology partners? Chef’s kiss right there.
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  • Michael Crichton - Wikipedia
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    In a speech in 2002, Crichton coined the term Gell-Mann amnesia effect to describe the phenomenon of experts reading articles within their fields of expertise and finding them to be error-ridden and full of misunderstanding, but seemingly forgetting those experiences when reading articles in the same publications written on topics outside of their fields of expertise, which they believe to be credible. He explained that he had chosen the name ironically, because he had once discussed the effect with physicist Murray Gell-Mann, "and by dropping a famous name I imply greater importance to myself, and to the effect, than it would otherwise have."
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  • What Teenagers Think About the Allegations Against Brett Kavanaugh - The New York Times
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    And she worried that if the Senate does not take Dr. Blasey’s allegations seriously, it will reaffirm the idea that “boys will be boys,” and teach a dangerous lesson to teenagers today.
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  • Thread: Another pitch for River of News
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    A feed scanner that accepts OPML subscription lists and generates river.js files.
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  • Nick Bradbury: The Friction in Frictionless Sharing
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    Well, no, not really. Because in the past the user only had to decide whether to share something they just read, but now they have to think about every single article before they even read it. If I read this article, then everyone will know I read it, and do I really want people to know I read it?
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  • New York Times Adds A Twist To Hyperlinks | The Daily Feed | Minyanville.com
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    The Atlantic noticed that the New York Times updated its internal hyperlinks and allowed for special commands for more user control. Similar to cuing YouTube videos at a specific point, special code can be added at the end of URLs to link to or highlight specific paragraphs and sentences. Intended for bloggers to underscore certain passages, it's still a nifty trick for sharing excerpts between day-to-day readers.
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  • SE Podcast #27 – Dave Winer - Blog – Stack Exchange
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    Right now, Dave’s working on a “magnificent symphony of software” – it’s the communication system he wants to use. It involves a minimal blogging tool with only RSS output (plus a dongle that will push the RSS to twitter, etc), a “River of News” aggregator, and an overarching tool for creating content that can be picked apart and included on other platforms.
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  • BBC News - Associated Press reporters told off for tweeting
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    The news agency issued the warning after members of its staff tweeted that they had been arrested at the Occupy Wall Street camp in Manhattan.
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  • The purported death of RSS
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    Just as /Library is now hidden from an OS X Lion user, and just as the iOS platform is locked down and sandboxed, RSS is simply dropping off into the background. Content is being syndicated and aggregated just as before. Perhaps even more so than in the past. Virtually everyone with a Facebook, Google+, or Twitter account follows a news-providing entity. Those entities share content feeds. Those content feeds are generally derived from the XML and Atom feeds that comprise the RSS.
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  • Martin Nisenholtz, RSS, and the power of standards » Nieman Journalism Lab
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    As with any new technology developing in the open, RSS was constantly evolving, with competing flavors, and it was proving difficult to settle on one single standard. Until, that is, Dave approached Martin Nisenholtz about getting The New York Times content pulled into RSS.
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  • 3 Google Reader Changes Need Repair Now - Internet - Google - Informationweek
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    This is essential. There were several feeds that I subscribed to from individuals that were an absolutely vital part of my informational flow. Now, I no longer have access to those feeds. Instead, Google hopes that I'll watch those same people in Google+ to see what they share publicly. Only these were private feeds meant pretty much only for me. In the 36 hours or so that I've been using the new Reader, I've been unable to access these feeds or find alternatives that are as easy to use.
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  • GeekMom » Blog Archive » Why Curated Content Matters: A Lament for Reader Share
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    And that is exactly what’s bugging me about the death of Reader Share. It was an info pantry, not a colander—a place well stocked with nourishing brain food. I followed a number of people who had demonstrated, day after day, a sharp eye for items worth my time. Every time I clicked that “people you follow” link to see what they’d shared, I could count on learning something.
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  • Unoccupy Google Reader | Jack Shafer
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    We users had been warned for weeks that a redesign of the popular (and free) RSS reader was in the making, so the appearance of a new version didn’t come as a shock. The only shock was how terrible the new version is. It subverts users’ needs in favor of Google’s. The company wants to fight Facebook with a uniform interface for its free suite of services—which also includes Gmail, Calendar, and Docs—that will encourage sharing of content on its newish social-networking product, Google+. But in making the whole Google product line visually consistent, the company has crippled one of its best offerings.
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  • Google Reader Backlash: A Fuss Over Nothing? - Rebecca J. Rosen - Technology - The Atlantic
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    But for people who used Google Reader's sharing features, the upgrade is a big loss, for all intents and purposes ruining that aspect of Reader. The old sharing methods have been totally supplanted with Google+ tools, which, quality aside, are too different to satisfy the same needs. I'm going to dive into the nitty-gritty here, so consider yourself warned.
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  • Google Doesn't Seem to Want to Fix Reader - Rebecca J. Rosen - Technology - The Atlantic
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    Even before Google unveiled it's changes to Reader, it did not care what users thought. In the first blog post announcing the changes, Google said, "We recognize, however, that some of you may feel like the product is no longer for you." As a nice gesture, Google gave people tools for transferring their feeds and social data to other RSS aggregators, but the point was clear: You don't have to like what we're about to do.
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  • Reader redesign: Terrible decision, or worst decision? - >*
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    Google released the previously announced set of changes around G+ integration and UI updates today, and boy is it a disaster. Since the general changes were pre-announced last week, most of us were prepared for the letdown, but actually seeing how it works end to end has made several flaws abundantly clear. Let's start with the obvious.
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  • Occupy Wall Street: 'Pepper-spray' officer named in Bush protest claim | World news | guardian.co.uk
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    That guy should be done. No more playing cops and robbers for him.
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  • Why Prosecutors Don't Go After Wall Street : NPR
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    What complete bullshit.
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  • Why Facebook’s ‘awesome’ Skype announcement is terrible - ComPost - The Washington Post
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  • Cory Doctorow on copyright and piracy: 'Every pirate wants to be an admiral' - video | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
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    Would you rather have 40 hours of video per year from 5 sources - or 30 hours of video PER EFFING MINUTE from millions of sources? Which advances culture more?
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  • Only a fool or Nicolas Sarkozy would go to war with Facebook | Technology | The Observer
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  • Canadian Cable Company Offers Rotisserie Channel : NPR
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  • Open science: a future shaped by shared experience | Education | The Observer
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  • Bin Laden’s death and the debate over torture - The Washington Post
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  • John McCain to Bush apologists: Stop lying about Bin Laden and torture - The Plum Line - The Washington Post
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  • Lady Gaga to debut new songs on Farmville
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  • Novel rejected? There’s an e-book gold rush! - The Washington Post
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  • Multimillionaire's private space ship 'can land on Mars' [printer-friendly] ‱ The Register
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  • The Sad, Beautiful Fact That We're All Going To Miss Almost Everything : Monkey See : NPR
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  • STONERS are DESTROYING the PLANET ‱ The Register
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  • [from Schuyler] How the rich soaked the rest of us | Richard Wolff | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
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  • Republicans recycle an old idea: the foam plastic coffee cup | World news | The Guardian
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    Seriously?
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  • E.J. Dionne Jr. - The Tea Party is winning
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  • Open-source forkers declare Oracle independence ‱ The Register
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    Congrats on your continued efforts at irrelevance, Oracle.
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  • Open-source forkers declare Oracle independence ‱ The Register
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    Congrats on your continued efforts at irrelevance, Oracle. It's Hudson versus Jenkins
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  • Detroit in Ruins
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  • ‘You’re Either With Us, or You’re With WikiLeaks’
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  • This Is Where It Leads
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  • Dana Milbank - Republicans' new Web site not exactly what they hoped it would be
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  • The Fresh Air Interview: Author Daniel Okrent, Prohibition Life: Politics Loopholes And Bathtub Gin : NPR
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    So many nuances to the stupidity of Prohibition that I hadn't learned about before.
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  • When using open source makes you an enemy of the state | Technology | guardian.co.uk
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    Living in the age of intellectual property gangsters, yay!
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  • News Report - Snotr
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    Meta news on newsmaking
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  • Associated rePress
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    "A tribute to "fair use" and the AP's misguided crusade against the hyperlink. All content on this site was generated automatically from the AP's own RSS feeds. (Sorry, we forgot to include your magic DRM beans.) ♄"
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  • Craig Maloney » Post Topic » Breaking News, but not before the commercials
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  • Palin suggests Chronicle withheld Obama remarks
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    Just like Troopergate, she counts on morons to just believe without question or follow-up. So tired of the exploitation of fear and willful ignorance. "Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, in a campaign appearance Sunday, criticized comments about coal technology that Sen. Barack Obama made to The Chronicle editorial board in January, and suggested that the newspaper withheld the information from the public - even though the interview has been posted on the newspaper's Web site since it was given."
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  • Concentrate: Home
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  • Video - Doocy: Alaska is Next to Russia - Sarah Palin, World
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    "Fox & Friends anchor Steve Doocy says Sarah Palin has international experience because Alaska is near Russia."
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