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Krzysztof Szafranek's link blog

Hi, I'm Krzysztof and I make websites.
When I'm not making websites, I read these.
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Oct 16 / 5:37pm

But we love you The New York Times. My conversation with Mr. Digital and Mr. Legal and Mr. Paywall

The VP Digital said he was deeply disappointed that I had not called him first to get their approval, because if I had he would have said “no”.  Hmmmm…I used to work at Sun Microsystems and we had a popular mantra — “to ask permission is to seek denial”.
more on kachingle.com

Hilarious conversation between New York Times employees and the founder of Kachingle, on making NYT's blogs available to public for free.

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Sep 3 / 10:12pm

Goodbye Blog. Hello Letter.

Recently, Eric Schmidt, of Google, remarked that “There was 5 exabytes of information created between the dawn of civilization through 2003.” He continued, “Now that much information is created every 2 days.
more on davemorin.tumblr.com

Scarried by information devaluation a blogger moves to a closed and paid publishing system. While it's hard to disagree with his rationale, I don't think impatient web audience cares enough to follow him there. More likely will just go elsewhere.

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Aug 7 / 7:39pm

StarCraft 2: help us mourn the death of content freedom

StarCraft 2 comes with a powerful set of tools for making your own maps and game modifications, but there is no local storage; you have to upload your content to Battle.net and let users grab that content from Blizzard's servers. If your content is considered inappropriate or obscene, Blizzard can take it down. The story is making its way around the gaming press, but this shouldn't be a shock... gaming content has long fallen under the control of the company that created the tools.
more on arstechnica.com

This outrage reminds me recent discussions about Apple's tight grip over its App Store. Apparently others realize as well that owning popular distribution platform can be very very profitable.

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