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Techdirt In The Interview Hotseat

It's apparently interview season, as two separate interviews that were done with me about Techdirt were just published. The first was conducted by Glyn Moody and appears in today's Guardian over in...

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Looking For A Few Big Brains

If you're knowledgeable about technology, business or finance and aren't already a member of the Techdirt Insight Community, then you're missing out on plenty of chances to make serious cash for being...

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Reliability Requires Redundancy

Slate has an interesting column by Jacob Leibenluft that compares the relative reliability of Yahoo! Answers and Wikipedia. He notes that unlike Google Answers, which was shuttered last year, Yahoo's...

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Calling Scottish Business Experts: Techdirt Greenhouse Idea Workshop In...

As some of you know, we've done a few "Techdirt Greenhouse" events over the past few years with tremendously positive feedback. These idea workshops were the basis for our Insight Community offering...

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Techdirt Announcements: Smart Dossiers And Thomson Financial Partnership

We're in New York City today making a couple of exciting announcements that I wanted to share with everyone. First up, we're launching a new offering as part of the Techdirt Insight Community called...

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Why Smart Dossiers Matter

Two weeks ago in New York, we announced our new Smart Dossiers product, that leverages the best members of the Techdirt Insight Community to provide multiple quick, cost effective analytical looks at...

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Abundance And Scarcity In The Insight Market

Last week, after I wrote about some of the theory behind the Insight Community and the Smart Dossiers offering (which is a subset of the Insight Community), someone asked how my writings on economics...

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Will A Psychologist Beat The Computer Science Geeks To The Netflix Prize?

One of the key things that we expected would be useful when we created the Techdirt Insight Community, was the fact that our customers would be getting very different perspectives from the members of...

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Help Define The Future Of Storage With The Techdirt Insight Community And Dell

It's been a little while since we last updated you on the Techdirt Insight Community, but there's plenty happening there that you're missing out on, if you're not a member. First, we've put together a...

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Techdirt Moves On Up To The 64th Floor: Some Changes Around Here

We've got a bunch of announcements today (and a few more coming up as well), but I wanted to start off with the big one: Techdirt, the company, is becoming Floor64, the company -- while Techdirt, the...

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We're Hiring In Sales

As we continue to evolve and grow our business, we've been looking to hire an experienced sales exec to focus on selling the Insight Community. We've been interviewing a variety of candidates, but...

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What You've Been Missing Over At The Insight Community

We've been pretty busy on a bunch of fronts and haven't had much of a chance to mention some of what's going on over at the Insight Community lately, and wanted to pass along some of the cool things...

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CwF + RtB = Techdirt

Techdirt's CwF + RtB Time for a little experimenting from Techdirt... For years, we've been talking about various new business models in the digital era, and how they can work. More recently, we've...

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Ideas For CwF+RtB Promotions

As you know, we've been running our CwF+RtB experiment for a few weeks now. We're looking to do new promotions and special "this week only" types of offerings, on a regular basis. Two weeks ago, the...

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Wired Reveals First Buyer Of The Techdirt Reviews Your Business Plan Offering

Wired's Epicenter blog has a nice writeup all about our Connecting with Fans Experiment, and got to break the news about the first buyer of the Techdirt Reviews Your Business Model offering, Didier...

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Hacked Recap

As mentioned over the weekend, we were briefly hacked on Saturday evening. We've put in a bit of time to figure out what happened, clean up the mess and correct the problems (and harden some other...

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Results From Our CwF+RtB Business Model Experiment

Before getting into the "meat" of this post about how our CwF+RtB experiment worked out, I want to announce that we've "replenished" the store with some new t-shirts and hoodies. These are brand new...

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Key Techdirt SOPA/PIPA Post Censored By Bogus DMCA Takedown Notice

We've talked a lot about how copyright law and the DMCA can be abused to take down legitimate, non-infringing content, interfering with one's free speech rights. And we're always brushed off by...

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Company That Issued Bogus Takedown Says It Was All A Mistake, Apologizes

So, yesterday, as you may have heard, we wrote about how a totally bogus DMCA takedown notice, coming from an "anti-piracy" firm called Armovore, deleted a key Techdirt blog post about SOPA/PIPA from...

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Techdirt Threatened With Defamation Suit Over Story On Feds Getting Royalty...

We recently wrote about a very strange case, in which the US government apparently ended up with a 10% royalty in a soon to be produced Hollywood movie that is being billed as the "prequel" to Passion...

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