December 2010
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The Wikileaks Cablegate scandal is the most exciting and interesting hacker scandal ever. I rather commonly write about such things, and I’m surrounded by online acquaintances who take a burning interest in every little jot and tittle of this ongoing saga. So it’s going to take me a while to explain why this highly newsworthy event fills me with such a chilly, deadening sense of Edgar Allen Poe...
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If you're not paying for it, you're the product
.. the title of this post came from a comment on Metafilter discussing Digg. But it applies to a much wider range of things currently happening online in newspaper content, paywalls, microtransactions, apps etc. I haven’t seen a more succinct way of describing the trade-off for not paying for content online. The two basic models are either you buy the content, or someone buys (or leases) you,...
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November 2010
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