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Apple blocks Dalai Lama related iPhone apps from its China App Store.

The French Publishers’ Association and an authors’ group win in their claim that scanning their works violates copyright.

Newspapers publishers express 2010 optimism. Don’t buy it.

Everyone and their mother creates end of year, best of lists. Not us. We’re meta. We point to other lists. Here’s one that caught our attention.

The year’s best in data visualization.

After 55 years reporting on and leading the design world, the venerable magazine calls it quits.

Project Honeypot reports today that they captured their 1 billionth spam — a faux message from the US Internal Revenue Service suggesting to the recipient that they are due a tax refund.

If the code base for Microsoft’s China-based microblogging site Microsoft MClub looks surprisingly familiar, that’s because it is.

I met a senior media executive who started a successful pay-TV company many years ago and we started talking about traits of successful entrepreneurs and how they may not be completely “normal”. That appears to have some basis. A research paper on Ritalin, the drug that is commonly used to treat ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity [...]

Links for April 29, 2009. Here’s what we’re following in the mothership.