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The End of Thumbnails and the Future of the Web

Alan Taylor is bringing his "Big Picture" photo aesthetic to The Atlantic's new photoblog just as Gawker redesigns to accommodate larger images. Is the future of the web high-res photography?READ»

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Is Monsanto About to Step Into an Antitrust Suit?

Monsanto's monopoly over world agriculture is no secret--just take a quick look around Amazon to see some of the books (Omnivore's Dilemma) and movies (Food Inc., The World According to Monsanto) that have popped up to decry ...READ»

Want to Sell Lots of E-Books? Give One Away for Free, Then

It's beginning to look like e-publishing may be changing attitudes to pricing within the industry, as an analysis of Amazon practices shows up an interesting trend: If you want to sell e-books, then giving some away for free is the ...READ»

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AP Adds Homing Beacon to Online News Content

In an unprecedented move for a digital news agency, the Associated Press announced this afternoon that it will tag and track all AP content online to ensure that it is re-used under that agency's terms of use. The registry technology ...READ»

Shepard Fairey Strikes Back! The Artist Breaks His Silence on the AP, Obama, and Warhol

We don't have to remind you of chapters 1 through 15 of the Saga of Shepard Fairey, in which the artist saw a photo, made a poster, got famous, got sued by the AP for seeing that photo, and subsequently suffered scathing criticism ...READ»

Tone Deaf Chronicles: AP Knocks Shepard Fairey

Add another one to the annals of recent countercultural moments: Yesterday the Associated Press accused Shepard Fairey--the street artist who designed the most iconic user generated art to come out of the 2008 election--of copyright ...READ»

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Associated Press: Go Social or Go Away?

On the heels of the heavy-handed announcement by the Associated Press to strictly enforce copyright guidelines on bloggers, Jim Kennedy, vice president and strategy director of The A.P., decided he and his group would ...READ»