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An excellent and intriguing backgrounder on how Demand Media makes money from algorithmic determination of demand and low-cost content production.

A mini case study of how the Huffington Post grew its traffic.

The ability to deliver a persuasive elevator pitch and follow it up with a substantive presentation is the difference between a funded entrepreneur and those having coffee complaining that they’re out of cash. It’s a litmus test of how you will behave in front of customers, employees and investors.

Great tutorial on how to create an offline HTML5 iPhone application. Does so through the process of building a Tetris game.

A collection of amazing fonts which are suitable and perfect for web design projects as well print based projects.

It was once the “land of a thousand cities” and home to some of the world’s most renowned scientists, poets, and philosophers. Today it is seen mostly as a harsh backwater. To imagine Central Asia’s future, we must journey into its remarkable past.

If the eventual choice is one between the implosion of the church in the west and a dilution of the blind obedience he sees as an anchor of papal authority, Pope Benedict is ready to stand in the ruins.

There are many shifts coming, but three big ones are an increase in direct participation; an increase in the leverage of the professionals working alongside the amateurs; and a second great age of patronage.

News is important. It’s so important that leaving it to a group of people in an office downtown is and has always been irresponsible.

The very efficiency of the VAT means that it throws off huge amounts of revenue that politicians eagerly spend. The VAT thus becomes an engine of even greater public spending.