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Why Alps Bethneck is 5 Years Old

Ari Herzog

2005: Flickr. I was the creative director for a company doing online video and games. A story I posted on Digg in 2005 crashed the “interesting” get-paid-for content site I was briefly testing. This is a guest blog post by Stephen Black. This is his story. Or, do I want to use it as a base for experimentation?

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10 Quotes on the Apple iPad and the Business of News

Adam Sherk

The question, then, is whether newspaper publishers will do any better at monetizing mobile advertising than they have online. Something like New York’s Approval Matrix that we designed back in 2005 with Adam Moss is popular in print but will really come to life in this format. Information design will be more important than ever.

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The Future of Blogging: I Had to Tell You This

Viper Chill

A lot has changed from the days when Digg was the only share button people used on their posts and – besides going directly to a website – RSS was the most common way to consume blog content. The parent company behind popular blogs like LifeHacker, Jezebel (gossip), Kotaku (gaming) and Gawker (tech / viral news).

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