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Clay Shirky: ‘Paywall will underperform – the numbers don’t add up’

The internet guru on the death of newspapers, why paywall will fail and how the internet has brought out our creativity – and generosity

I Am Being Followed By Helicopters

It takes a village of oversharers?

I Am Being Followed By Helicopters

VIDEO: The Google Job Experiment

Excellent way to grab the attention of the people you want to work for: Buy AdWords search spots for their own names. They Google themselves and then…

VIDEO: The Google Job Experiment

iPad Usability: First Findings From User Testing

Web usability guru Jakob Nielsen thinks your innovative iPad UI is too “weird.” I think he should, just maybe, stop worrying about a “back” button.

iPad Usability: First Findings From User Testing

ROFLFAIL

Matthew Battles says ROFLCon was packed with too many money memes and not enough of the “…joyous, collaborative Internet…”

ROFLFAIL

Twitter Census data collection

The Twitter Census, from Infochimps

Twitter Census data collection

Cancel Publish: A Call For the End of Tumblr Book Deals

The author claims that not only are these bad books, but they don’t sell.

Cancel Publish: A Call For the End of Tumblr Book Deals

The new utility belt

Robin Sloan calls it: Twitter, Dropbox, and Google Forms are the three key tools of the moment for real-time creative collaboration.

The new utility belt

WhiteHouse.gov Releases Open Source Code

That’s right, people. Barack Obama’s web team doesn’t just *use* open-source tools — Drupal in this case — they commit code and release modules to the community. Three of ‘em.

WhiteHouse.gov Releases Open Source Code