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Best take on Google+ so far. And the Media. And the Books.

Fun concept piece. It'd be nice to see this as a Kickstarter project someday.

Disappointing exchange, and a textbook example of how not to respond to critics online. Like Derek I'm a huge fan of On the Media so, ugh.

The Internet Archive is now archiving physical books. "Brewster noticed that Google and Amazon and other countries scanning books would cut non-rare books open to scan them, or toss them out after scanning. He felt this destruction was dangerous for the culture."

"Buzzwords are frequently used in news media. These are words that do not typically occur in everyday speech, but are common among newscasters, talking heads, and pundits on cable news." Often misused, this site collect media buzzwords and provides the real definition.

"What would a Business Class news site look like?" Great question.

A few ideas that could reduce the friction of signing up/in.

"Metafilter moderator Josh Millard talks to Brooke about what you do when a celebrity joins your website anonymously in order to attack his critics." Great interview with Josh on one of my favorite radio shows.

"The last thing fans of these programmes want is to be confronted with the cruel reality of what life was like in late Victorian and Edwardian England..."

"Admit it. You stereotype people by their email addresses." How Hunch user demographics break down by email domain. [via swissmiss]

"I've argued that the ultimate endpoint for Digital Rights Management (DRM) is the pay-per-swing hammer." MetaFilter member adipocere takes DRM to its logical end.

"A single meta tag to control prefetching reduced our DNS queries by 350 million per month." Wow, if you use subdomains extensively this is something to watch out for.

Nice collection of the way popular iPhone applications have approached splash screens, user profiles, lists, etc.

"That's what the beer commercials are going after--the enthusiastic desperation of the underage drinker."

Interesting changes for ColdFusion within Adobe. CF development has been separated from Platform (ie. Flash) development.

Hooray, Alan Taylor's new photography / journalism weblog is live!

Nostalgia-drenched photorealist still life paintings.

Nice browser extension that embeds site previews on Twitter. (It works better than that sounds.)

This is a good CBC show about advertising and they recently added an official podcast link.

Hey great! Alan Taylor is starting a new photo journalism project in February. Can't wait to see it.