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Ah, yes.  Open Source.  The Utopia of the software world.  The land in which all software is free, and all bugs are patched quickly.
At least that’s what it used to mean.  Or at least what it still means to some people some of the time.
For better or worse, the term Open Source has changed drastically […]

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I am now recovering from one of the more lengthy and painful periods of being more or less unemployed, and am currently working for a great team at a great startup working on great technologies.
Phew.  It was a close one.
However, before I ended up at my current place of employment, I had the opportunity to […]

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You’re not going to find any news breaking on this blog as the keynote unfolds and everybody goes crazy, but what I will say, quickly, as we all sit and wait for the speech is this:
Apple has built a stronger brand than has ever been created before.
Think about it.  We all know what’s going to […]

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Edit 6/4/08 - Jay from the Switchabit team has again proven to be very helpful and the problems seem at this point to be very creepy indeed, but not Switchabit related.  If Jay’s diagnosis (involving multiple IPs from my router) is correct, then their help has amounted to far more than content distribution hiccups.  Still […]

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Last night’s top chef was almost as good as last week’s top chef- even though it was not as intense it was still a good, smart challenge. The chef’s had to cook “boxed lunches” for a bunch of cops- and it had to be healthy. Last night also featured an appearance from Top […]

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Today Twistori, the beautiful work of Twitter art that has already wasted hours of my time, sent out this tweet:
so secret #1 involves the letter “R”… we’ve got a fun little treat for whoever finds it first! @twistori us if you find it!
It […]

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Robots & Empire has just launched a custom google search.
Much like Blackle, this bad boy is black, and does all the Google can do.
The catch?
All revenue generated from search queries will be used to launch a microlending fund for third world nations.
Other individual investors have pledged to match any accrued revenue with dollars of their […]

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As TechCrunch reports, ASCAP has just won a lawsuit against major online music streaming services in the amount of $100mm for artists.
My question:  When will BMI be mailing my check?
My music’s getting streamed all over the fuck, and on many of those aforementioned networks.
My case isn’t against musical streaming.  My case is against music publishers […]

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Video Commenting Added to Blaglash! 

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First, some preliminary slides Yahoo released earlier.
I’ll be recording the conference call so you’ll be able to listen to it here if you miss it now.

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