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Rushkoff's talk at WebVisions last month. His premise: our underlying economic system is never disrupted and it's bad business.

Anil talks about the tightening APIs that are forcing ThinkUp to shut down. I've been a ThinkUp user since the days you installed it on your own server. ThinkUp tried to help you understand how you use services like Twitter and Facebook. Big thanks to Anil and Gina for helping us do that for so long.

Matt talks about the personal toll that owning a small business like MetaFilter can take.

Dang, we ended up with a top-down Internet anyway. "Today, Google and a handful of other major Internet corporations like Facebook, Twitter, and Amazon fulfill much the same role that Otlet envisioned for the Mundaneum—channeling the world’s intellectual output." [via RF]

"Today, a Canary build of Google Chrome removed something kind of important from the browser: the URL." AOL Keyword: Déjà vu.

checkout this repository of git parody. --so-good [via todayintabs]

Excellent Google Reader rant. "We need to keep pushing forward without them, and do what we’ve always done before: route around the obstructions and maintain what’s great about the web."

Google Reader's massive database is full of Web history that no longer exists anywhere else. The Archive Team is trying to pull as much out as they can, but they need lists of feeds. I just shared my list of subscriptions. If you have an OPML file sitting around gathering dust, consider donating.

Mat Honan, national treasure, on Google. "If democracy worked so well, if a majority public opinion made something right, we would still have Jim Crow laws and Google Reader."

Jason Shellen talks about the origin of Google Reader.

One Thing Well has a nice roundup of the Google Reader fallout and commentary. The verdict: no replacement yet but many are scrambling to get something working.

shit sandwich.

I miss the old Google Reader sharing features too. It'll be interesting to see if this new effort will get enough users to make the sharing features work as well as they did at Google. [via waxy]

Mat Honan is experiencing a nightmare cascade failure of interconnected services. This is a good reminder to back things up and make sure your passwords are unique for each service.