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Let’s talk about net neutrality

Dave Farquhar — Wed, 05 Feb 2014 11:00:31 +0000

The battles are raging over net neutrality again. Conservatives generally are against it; liberals are generally for it. I think the battle is more over misunderstanding than anything else, so I want to try to clear up that misunderstanding. Net

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Goodbye Amazon Affiliates, hello Viglink

Dave Farquhar — Sun, 18 Aug 2013 14:52:17 +0000

I’ve been an Amazon affiliate for more than a decade, which meant that if I mentioned a product, posted a link to Amazon and someone clicked the link and bought it, I got a little bit of money. It didn’t

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I think this is the secret of Amazon’s success

Dave Farquhar — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 13:23:54 +0000

When talking about e-books Friday, I mentioned that Amazon is making deals with authors directly, cutting traditional publishers out of the loop. And then my wife asked a good question: How does Amazon think of stuff like that? I think

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