How to Be Brilliant (New York Times)

David Shenk argues that that discipline, not giftedness, is vital to greatness.

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How to Be Brilliant (New York Times)

Happy 25th birthday to ‘.com’ (Chicago Tribune)

Twenty-five years ago this week, the Internet opened the door to business, and the world changed.

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Happy 25th birthday to ‘.com’ (Chicago Tribune)

Mashable Duped by Fake News

Popular blog repeats bogus information without fact checking. Yesterday DomainGang, a sometimes satire/sometimes not domain web site, wrote a piece titled “ BullWhip to Fight PETA over ownership of Sex.com! ” It was based on real “news”, that PETA sent out a press release asking Sex.com’s creditors to give it the domain name so it could help get its message out

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Happy 25th birthday, ‘.com’ (Chicago Tribune)

Dow Jones Newswires | Twenty-five years ago this week, the Internet opened the door to business, and the world changed. Previously reserved for its academic and government users, the national computer network issued the first commercial domain name, symbolics.com, to a now-defunct computer company.

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Happy 25th birthday, ‘.com’ (Chicago Tribune)

Jarvis Coffin: Doug Weaver Gets Real About Micro sites in a Box (The Huffington Post)

It strikes me that nothing stupid has ever come from the mouth or pen (or keyboard) of Doug Weaver, which is a remarkable record given…

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Jarvis Coffin: Doug Weaver Gets Real About Micro sites in a Box (The Huffington Post)

Pammy headed for Australia (News.com.au)

LOCK up your husbands, blonde bombshell Pamela Anderson could be coming to town.

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Pammy headed for Australia (News.com.au)

Mountain View promises Google Analytics opt-out (The Register)

Another privacy tool few will ever use Google is developing a browser plug-in that will let you opt-out of being tracked by Google Analytics, the traffic monitoring service now used by 71 per cent of the top domains on the interwebs.… The power of collaboration within unified communications

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Mountain View promises Google Analytics opt-out (The Register)

Discovery Of Switch Mechanism For Controlling Traffic In Cells (Medical News Today)

Scientists have identified a mechanism that switches on an extremely important process for the proper functioning and survival of our body’s cells. Specifically, the fast-track transportation pathway of ‘cargo’ to and from the surface of the cell. Defects in this trafficking pathway can have severe consequences, leading to numerous diseases such as high cholesterol, neuropathies, sterility and …

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Discovery Of Switch Mechanism For Controlling Traffic In Cells (Medical News Today)

Verisign Revises .TV Premium Offering, Sedo to Auction Premium .TVs

Verisign, the operator of the .TV registry, has revised the pricing for 23,668 .TV premium domains and removed the higher annual renewal fees, so owners of premium domains registered after March 19, 2010 will only be paying the standard .TV renewal rate going forward. It appears that this new rate is however not extended to pre-existing owners of premium .TV domains

Verisign Revises .TV Premium Offering, Sedo to Auction Premium .TVs
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American Airlines wins domain name case

American Airlines,a major airline of the United States has recently won the wwwamericanairlanes.com domain name in Arbitration.

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American Airlines wins domain name case