Dan Lewis

On December 17th — eleven days ago — I emailed my friend Ashish over at Setfive Consulting with a pretty simple idea: a topical meme tracker, using pre-selected RSS feeds to limit the scope of acceptable articles and bit.ly to weight and further filter the wheat from the chaff.   Specifically, as a die-hard New York [...]

Rupert Murdoch’s interest in erecting paywalls around NewsCorp content and removing it from Google’s index is in the news seemingly daily.  And today, it looks like Google made a play to keep the Wall Street Journal and other NewsCorp properties in the index.  Mashable reports on the two changes, and the second one has interesting [...]

The discussion around my post yesterday also entailed this comment over on another blog, and got me thinking further about what one actually purchases when one buys and e-book.  The same, of course, applies to mp3s and any other property which can be reproduced by a third party at very low (often no) marginal costs.
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