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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 Continue reading

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Is your newspaper.com is a big ball of mud?

Is your newspaper site a clean-looking, uniform grid of semantic (and validated!) code? Or is it a ‘big ball of mud,’ with includes (scotch tape) and javascript (bubble gum) holding together a jumble of disparate hunks of content? If you … Continue reading

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How’s that whole melting MacBook thing going?

A lazyweb inquiry: Does the current run of MacBooks (not the Pros) still have any sort of serious overheating problem? We’re pretty close to replacing a certain laptop in our stable (not mine) and the question keeps coming up. So … Continue reading

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Why I love the Internet

Because shortly before our daughter arrived, I ordered a webcam from Amazon. It was here when we got back from the hospital, and it took about 15 minutes of setup to start streaming video via Skype to four grandparents spread … Continue reading

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I’m in ur FTP clientz putting ur clothez back on

It’s not midnight here yet, or I’d be fast asleep (partying UCSC student neighbors have no effect on me when the head hits the pillow), but it’s late enough to flick the stylesheet back on. Thanks to everyone who got … Continue reading

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