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Apparently you didn't see the connection between Wolfram Alpha and "Hi, I'm Stephen Wolfram", who wrote the product.

A better and free option for this is Freecycle. People are giving away boxes, especially moving boxes, all the time. Plus, it's free and only costs a little in time and gas money to pick up boxes.

All-in-One SEO Pack is no longer being maintained by the original developer so its quality -- in terms of use -- may go down. There's also Platinum SEO Pack which is basically AIO SEO Pack + extra options (in fact, it is AIO plus extra options).

Yep, got my t-shirt yesterday. I just need to wash it to shrink it and it's going to worn as much as my Reddit shirt (all the time).

Haha. I stopped commenting on people's use of improper grammar or incorrect spelling. I stopped doing this after emailing John Biggs (from CrunchGear) a few times about the atrocious mistakes that the editors let slip by daily. I finally figured out that no one really cares since we can still process what the correct word or grammar should be instinctively.

Myronspace.com? Not to be confused with any Myrons out there.

Perhaps facepaul.com ?

The only reason it's crumbling is because people, especially many IP lawyers, simply do not understand new media and the new way people digest media. They're stuck in an old world business model and most likely always will be because "if it ain't broke..." applies quite well.

I receive takedowns every single day at work, almost all of them illegal (in the fact that they're not properly formatted, lack certain criteria per 17USC, etc.), and almost all get dropped because people simply do not understand what the DMCA is. They think "well, that's my stuff, it's copyrighted, I want it taken down now" and are under the assumption -- thanks to MSM -- that all it takes is an email and an assertation. Most of them then quickly realize that there's a lot more to it and simply drop the takedown because it's fallacious at best (the most humorous one was a lady constantly whined to take down a LOLcat of her cat and was threatening to sue) or downright fool-hardy at least.

This debacle about Hartwell continues to show that people are largely ignorant of the law, this goes for both sides of the debate. TRS misunderstood Fair Use, and Lane, well that's all over the place so I don't need to repeat it.

Ignorance of the law is no excuse for abuse of the law.

So does Wilcox also remark that Live Office is a failure too? I mean, 600 is definitely a large percentage of the Internet-using US population, you can gauge a great deal from such a tiny portion of the population.

Haha crap, I actually compiled my little list and in between removing all the miscellaneous boring crap in the list (best style blog? best controversial blog? PFFT!) I accidentally removed my entry for mashable. Off to edit I go.

But what am I going to pad my own ego with?!

My connection to Twitter was in and out yesterday and pretty much out all day, SMS-wise, until this article was actually posted today (prefaced by another tweet from Ostrow not too long before).

This is less of question of "are they blocking it?" (I was blocked earlier but it's working now) but of "why would they block it?" Why target Twitter and not something else like GOOGL ? A vague definition of "non-authorized 3rd party service" could be literally anything. All those stupid ringtone services that charge you $30/mo are unauthorized too, why aren't they going after them as well? I've been with T-mo for 7 years and this is the dumbest decision I've heard them make yet.

I got hit with a truthiness DMCA complaint today all because my company's datacenter assumed the 5 sites quoted for complaints belonged to us simply because we're their biggest customer. Turns out 1 of the 5 did point to us so I merely laid into their legal department for being a bunch of dimwitted knobs, having just wasted the last 15 minutes of my day on a wild goose chase.

I found it more ironic that the DMCA complaint was by a guy who writes software (that was not copyrighted) that willfully violates a number of copyright laws and is in fact against the law. He'll have a nice email in his inbox.

Bringing Throwdown into the ring with Radiohead is quite unrealistic. What Dave Peters says is true, this is irrefutable, but it doesn't apply to a band of Radiohead's stature. Radhiohead have enjoyed years of big label backing whereas Throwdown are forced to tour and sell merch just to make a living since they're on a much smaller (by net volume of cash) label playing music more than 80% of the general populous (I could probably count on one hand how many Mashable editors had heard of Throwdown before the articles recently) has never heard in their life even though their core supporters are dyed-in-the-wool supporters. Having that big label backing for a number of years pretty much guarantees you record sales for the life of the project, playing on indie labels means you have to sell as much stuff as possible just to eat dinner.

Selling records is what makes Radiohead money, selling merch is what makes Throwdown money because of their market demographics. Hardcore kids go see Throwdown and expect to find all sorts of stuff for sale (and buy it, pretty much a scene requirement) but Radiohead fans go see Radiohead live to see them and maybe buy something. The fanbase mentality is completely different.

Why errantly connect two dots that need not be connected?

Two sites that do this, although not out in the open for everyone to see, are Reinvigorate and Performancing PMetrics. I got lucky and got my invite approved for Reinvigorate and it offers oodles of real-time information, they even have a desktop app called Snoop that pushes this to you in real-time -- I believe it's built on top of AIR. Reinvigorate lets you add certain codes to your site that can identify other Reinvigorate users and I'm sure once it's out of beta -- if it ever is -- more users will have access codes and will provide a more social feeling.

PMetrics is basically just a stats package like any other but it does much the same as this widget. It has some nice real-time information but sometimes, I feel like it's lacking data or perhaps I just want /too much/ data. The service has been around for quite a while now -- I'm user #135! -- and is backed by Perfomancing.

Helium (under Freelance Writers) is DAMN hard to get any money from. I've written a number of top rated articles and have received a whopping $0.00 for my time.

Associated Content, on the other hand, has paid me for everything I've written for them. It's the much better site to write for (and they just got $10MUSD in Series B funding! More money!)

I don't see why Slashdot needs to do this nor do they need to feel like they have to compete with Digg/Reddit unless this push is being handed to them by VA Linux.

Slashdot has no need to compete because they have a very narrow focus and have succeeded at this for years. They invented what's now called the "Digg effect", the only thing Digg has over Slashdot is more categories -- and much more unintelligent users although that's not a plus for Digg. If you read programming.reddit (the closest thing reddit has to Slashdot), it's like a cesspool for people who think Digg's tech sections are overrun by knuckle-draggers and for the most part, they're right. Neither Digg nor Reddit command the geek respect that Slashdot has earned over the last 10 years or so and probably never will. Slashdot invented what we call social news, they're very set in their ways and it's always worked. What works for both Digg and Reddit do not work for Slashdot because the user focus is entirely different.

You make it sound like Slashdot is losing a fight it never started and war it was never losing. Remember, Slashdot was first.

Are they also going to force all the news outlets that aired the clip approximately 1 billion times to re-edit their footage and take it out? I'm pretty sure those same news outlets aren't going to be paying the author of the video for using it so the author could very well make a claim under the DMCA...rightfully.

I've been dealing with DMCA claims at work lately and I'm seeing a real trend of people sending us complaints to take something down because someone offended them. It's very fun, and a real ego stroke, to tell them to get lost because we're not censors.

I do believe you meant to say "The email clients, protocols, and providers that Fuser supports" rather than merely "clients". Last I checked Comcast was an ESP, IMAP was a protocol, and Outlook was a client.

The only problem with Bablegum is the fact that it's got almost nothing interesting to watch. I've scanned all of the channels available and it's mostly Euro-centric media and is relatively uninteresting. I understand they're working on niche markets first but in order for that to work, they need to have interesting niche market content. The UI of the player could also use some serious work. I like the "less is more" aspect however, the controls leave a lot to be desired.

The main problem I have with all of these outfits, except for Zattoo and Miro, is the lack of Linux support. Out of all of them I would at least expect Joost to have a Linux-based client given Skype's widespread adoption on Linux platforms.

Actually, blocking ads is _only_ against Myspace's TOS if it's blocked /on/ the profile itself, not by a 3rd party ad blocker.

Actually, starting a blog isn't like starting a business. Starting a blog is like writing in a paper journal, and that's not very business-like is it? Positioning yourself as a guru or otherwise expert in something on your blog is like starting a business. You've got to be shrewd and write interesting things.

This function has been available in GCal for months. I've been getting SMS messages for my events since at least March.