Everybody is Spamming Everybody Else on MTurk -- one researcher found >40% of HITs are spammy, but this author posted a Mechanical Turk HIT to supply recommendations for visitors to a non-existent French city and got responses from people expecting that every response would be paid regardless of quality.
Javascript Garden -- a growing collection of documentation about the most quirky parts of the JavaScript programming language. It gives advice to avoid common mistakes, subtle bugs, as well as performance issues and bad practices that non-expert JavaScript programmers may encounter on their endeavours into the depths of the language.
A 5 Minute Framework for Fostering Better Conversations in Comments Sections (Poytner) -- Whether online or offline, people act out the most when they don’t see anyone in charge. Next time you see dreck being slung in the bowels of a news story comment thread, see if you can detect whether anyone from the news organization is jumping in and setting the tone. As West put it, news organizations typically create a disconnect between the people who provide content and the people who discuss that content. This inhibits quality conversation.
Full Text RSS Feed -- builds full-text feeds for sites that only offer extracts in their RSS feeds. (via Jason Ryan)

RSS is Dying and You Should Be Worried -- If RSS dies, we lose the ability to read in private.
What Could Have Been Entering The Public Domain on January 1, 2011? -- a list of the works that won't be entering the public domain in the US because the copyright term was extended in 1976. Think of the movies from 1954 that would have become available this year. You could have showed clips from them. You could have showed all of them. You could have spliced and remixed and made documentaries about them. (You could have been a contender!) Instead, here are a few of the movies that we won’t see in the public domain for another 39 years .... This list will be viewed two different ways by different groups, reinforcing instead of changing their views: copyright minimalists will say "what a tragedy" but copyright maximalists will say "look at these great works we protected, they're still earning money for their creators therefore they're still valuable and thus worth protecting". (via Bill Bennett on Twitter)
ProxClone -- cloner for proximity cards, cost of parts around $30. (via Hacker News)
2011 Is The Year of Server-Side Javascript -- explanation of why the author will be doing back-end coding in Javascript this year. Good to see an honest assessment that it's still early days for server-side Javascript: Most of the libraries out there are young, buggy and incomplete. I got Node.js to segfault a few times. There’s no killer framework on the same caliber as Rails, nor anything that comes close to ActiveSupport and a decent standard runtime library (hmm … that gives me an idea). But then, it’s not much different than what Ruby was five years ago, or Java back in the late 90′s. We’ve all got to start somewhere.