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No comment? No problem.

2024-12-11 07:08:36| MediaSavvy

I love Matt Haughey's thoughtful post on the differences between comments on blogs in 2008 and those back in the day (five years ago). But I think the root of the problem (described in various media outlets over the past...

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Google Chrome: Paging Dr. McLuhan

2024-12-11 07:08:36| MediaSavvy

It wasn't the feature set of Google's Chrome browser that got me excited, nor was it opening yet another strategic front in Google's cold war with Microsoft. Nor was it the comic book by Scott McCloud, although that's really cool....

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Not disruptive, but definitely big

2024-12-11 07:08:36| MediaSavvy

Although I'm not buying Yahoo's claim that it's "disruptive", their new BOSS (Build Your Own Search Service) API has the potential to greatly improve the Web, create businesses, and increase Yahoo's profile. By removing the barriers to entry of massive...

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I'm ready to own a top-level domain

2024-12-11 07:08:36| MediaSavvy

Way back in 2002, I blogged "Let a thousand top-level domains bloom". How about a million? A billion? ICANN wants to allow anyone with the gumption and the tech chops to own their own top-level domain. When we end the...

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I was too easy on the AP

2024-12-11 07:08:36| MediaSavvy

The Associated Press's "Don't quote us" policy is worse than I feared. Not only are they employing DMCA takedown notices against clear cases of Fair Use and requiring payments for quoting as few as five words -- their proposed licensing...

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