Good (and long) post from Danny Sullivan about the recent newspapers vs. Google debacle. (via Kevin Anderson)

Better start reading up on this.

We are apparently never going to give him up.

RollTube is a Rick Roll Firefox Extension that switches every YouTube video with the infamous Rick Roll video. The experience has been described as “like the whole internet ganging up and rick rolling you at the same time”.

George Clooney interviewed by showing him everything said about him on the internet.

Heh.

From EDUCAUSE, detailing upcoming tech that's expected to make a difference in education.

"Along the way, Coulton discovered a fact that many small-scale recording artists are coming to terms with these days: his fans do not want merely to buy his music. They want to be his friend."

“Three years of legal education has been wasted because of an unmoderated message board.” Comments here are a complete and utter trainwreck.

In this article we highlight twelve of the most important US laws when it comes to blogging and provide some simple and straightforward tips for safely navigating them.

OpenDNS helps you navigate the Internet in a safer, faster, smarter and more reliable way. Our service is free and requires nothing to download. OpenDNS doesn't replace your existing Internet connection, it just makes it better.

Technorati, the blog search engine, is searching for a new CEO... I guess it would be snide to suggest that their search will take forever, miss the obvious candidates and eventually time out with no results? Oh well.

Khoi Vinh's excellent presentation on grid-based design. Download the slides, people.

YouTube has 67 employees; this works out to about $25million per employee, ignoring infrastructure and content rights.

Article about a particularly disturbing incident on LambdaMOO back in the day.

What the web looked like 10 years ago.

After all, it's just a series of tubes. [this is good]

"Keep it simple, and ship it before they do, and maintain your sense of humor whether you get rich or go broke."

Congrats, I guess?

"This is why askme frikkin RULES." - seconded.

Wikipedia for the goonish types.

via joi