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Suw: I hate partial feeds, and the “driving people to the ads” excuse is totally out of date – Corante uses in-feed ads, and many people use browsers that block ads. So where’s the win?
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Suw: I hadn’t heard of a lot of this top 10 British dotcoms, so will have to investigate more!
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Kevin: Gannett launches mobile sites for 100 of its local titles. I wonder what this means for carriers. Will they help, hinder or be neutral about this content? Does it matter in the US where flat rate data plans are common?
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Suw: Johson & Johnson’s Ray Jordan bravely blogs about J&J’s lawsuit against the American Red Cross for breaking the terms of their trademark agreement with J&J. He gets a lot of flack, but deals with it well. Bravo.
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Suw: Ooh, shiny toy! I want one!
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Suw: Australian chain A&R invite ‘underperforming’ suppliers to cough up cash in order to stay A&R suppliers. (Isn’t that normally called extortion?) Michael Rakusin from Tower Books response with “voluble hilarity”.
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Suw: Dave Fenlon, Chief Operating Officer at Angus & Robertson responds to the response to A&R’s astonishingly arrogant letter to suppliers with… wait for it.. more arrogance. Very entertaining.
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Suw: Incredibly neat use of four synced music videos to create one really cool one.
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Suw: It’s a death of a thousand cuts for DRM, but we do seem finally to be getting towards that final, fatal blow. If only the BBC were taking any notice.
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Suw: Ooh, I don’t like the look of this. Deep packet inspection might be able to do some good things for the internet, but it also enables some very unhealthy behaviours, like quietly demolishing net neutrality.