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Google is too powerful and Wikipedia should save itself (and the world) by introducing fully open API.
Introduction
For much of the past month, the tech press has been consumed by two things: the introduction of the Google Knol and the release of Wikia Search (see Allen Stern’s excellent coverage here). If there’s one thing that’s clear [...]

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I wasn’t sure how best to pun this headline, so you got what you got.
Anyway, if you’re a blogger and interested in your first amendment rights, check out what happened to Laughing Squid over the past week.
Basically, Scott Beale reported on an Improv Everywhere “Mission” which had to do with parodying Best Buy’s (in)famous blue [...]

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Take 40 minutes and watch (or listen to, in the background) this interview of John Doerr — the VC extraordinaire, futurist, and self-proclaimed geek.
The interview, hosted by John Battelle, ranges from Google, to green tech, to the “immersive web,” and the politics around the wireless spectrum auction.
Enjoy:

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This NBC story is about one of my favorite people in the world: the smart, savvy, and sensible billionaire, Warren Buffet.
Here, Tom Brokaw goes out to Omaha to hear about “the Oracle’s” latest crusade: trying to get congress to raise his tax rate relative to his (poorer) employees’ tax rates (he couldn’t find one person [...]

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I’m at Startup Camp NYC today and tomorrow and looking forward to hearing about startups, learning about startups, and talking about my startup. Plus, I’m considering entering the Best Startup Contest.
We all know what a “startup” is, right?
Well, gearing up for the event, I subscribed to the startup camp’s wiki RSS feed to stay up [...]

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For all the Facebook bashing I do (it’s not bashing, really, just solid skepticism ;) you may be surprise to see me tell you about something I’m excited about on the platform.
If you’re a Facebook member, go install the Changing the Present app right now!
In the context of its own website, Changing the Present is [...]

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When you get a chance, read this post from the WSJ’s Jeremy Wagstaff. In the article, Wagstaff scolds publishers who internally link when referencing an external site (with the classic example being a TechCrunch post which links to a prior review rather than the site itself when mentioning the site by name).
According to Wagstaff, it [...]

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If you haven’t read up on the issue brewing at Blip.tv in regards to Loren Feldman’s ignorant, worthless, racist, garbage, then check out this post on their company blog.
I’ve been thinking about issues of hate-speech and publisher rights for some time. These aren’t easy issues, so I want to commend Blip off the bat for [...]

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