“Once you killz a cow…” via fuckyeahladygaga
Ken’s op-ed on NPR’s All Things Considered. The audio should air sometime today and be available online around 7pm EST.
Who is this sexy man?
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Holy shit this is hilarious! — Princess Trololololeia (via SweetDaddyPeaches)
A rational and reasonable post from Marco. This is why Marco is one of the coolest dudes online:
A popular blog truncated its RSS feeds to boost site pageviews. It’s like last week, when The Atlantic changed to partial-content RSS feeds. And that was like every other week, when some publisher did something that some readers didn’t like to make a few more cents.
On Wednesday, the company is answering the call, offering biking routes in 150 American cities in Google Maps. Google plans to unveil the service during the National Bike Summit in Washington. The event will be followed by a group ride at the South by Southwest festival in Austin, Tex.
“What we weren’t expecting is so many people were blocking ads and didn’t even know it,” he said. “It left a lot of people very confused. They started digging around, wasting an hour trying to fix their broken computer.” There was nothing on the site to explain to readers why content had been blocked.
An article about the shenanigans I pulled last Friday on WSJ.com:
A Conde Nast site’s attempt this weekend to block users who block ads presents yet another question about the painful transition from traditional to online media — what to do about anti-ad software.
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Did you know that blocking ads truly hurts the websites you visit? We recently learned that many of our readers did not know this, so I’m going to explain why.
From Ars. Also 1165 comments, all of which and a lot of which I have replied to x_x
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Found any other good discussions happening elsewhere on the web? Email me if you do.
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