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TED.com – Defend our freedom to share (or why SOPA is a bad idea)
Clay Shirky delivers a clear and cogent history and explanation of PIPA/SOPA, walking through through both the intent and what the ramifications of the bill and how it changes the entire legal system under which websites operate.
January 19, 2012
Electronic Frontier Foundation – The Internet at its Best
EFF highlights some of the largest sites that participated in the SOPA/PIPA blackout.
January 19, 2012
O’Reilly Radar – The President’s challenge
The idea that we’ll be able to go back in time and make it harder for people to get digital information/media/anything is just wrong.
January 16, 2012
ArsTechnica – Wikipedia to join reddit in SOPA blackout Wednesday
I’ll also be posting a message to protest and inform people about PIPA and SOPA, though I imagine Wikipedia will have a much larger influence.
January 16, 2012
wingolog – Javascript eval Considered Crazy
No matter how crazy and unsafe you consider eval this is just going to scare you a little more.
January 15, 2012
Gigantt Blog – The GitHub Job Interview
This sounds like a really solid way to do a job interview.
January 11, 2012
Mike’s Lookout – SPDY of the Future Might Blow Your Mind Today
The pictures provide a really good sense of what is going on.
January 6, 2012
The Contactually Blog – E-mail is the Universal Platform
I don’t put much stock in stories that say e-mail is dead for precisely this reason.
January 5, 2012
kickingbear – Learn to X
There’s a problem amongst programmers it’s the classic when you have a hammer everything looks like a nail. Programming/Coding is our hammer, perhaps a really advanced hammer but still just a hammer.
January 2, 2012
Subtraction.com – Subscribing to The New York Times
Media companies respect their customers or maybe not.
January 1, 2012

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