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The article states: "I for one still maintain a Google Reader account, however I don't check it on a daily basis. I check Twitter for news and information multiple times a day, I monitor Twitter lists, and I read a number of blogs across a set of topics of most interest to me."
Anyone else do this? How would Twitter be a more useful way to monitor news?
Investing that money into getting an excellent technology administrator or computer science teacher would have made much more of a difference.
I essentially see it as a tradeoff between usability and SEO-friendliness, but I'm wondering if anyone has any thoughts on it. I've considered doing something where the first click would perform a page refresh but subsequent calls would fall back onto the AJAX functionality but that seems a bit silly.
I suspect the time and energy Tim spends trying to organize the book contest, look through the submissions and filter out the garbage would have been better spent just contacting a reputable designer and paying them to do a good job.
The difference between a personal project and a startup is that a startup has a primary goal of profit, whereas the personal project may just be for fun or a personal exercise.
So at $675,000 / 30 songs, the jury decided that each track was worth $22,500?
I understand that copyright laws should exist. But it really bothers me that not only were such high values set in the laws, but that the jury enforced them even though they had the option of choosing lesser amounts.
A part of the jury's job is to provide an additional, more 'human' interpretation of the case ... in this case I think they failed.