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"What are these good reasons for intellectual property? Promoting the progress of useful arts and sciences? How does two buttons promote progress and innovation? How is this novel or non-obvious or even valid under the recent Bilski ruling? Remember, Amazon has a notorious patent on buying something with one button click. Now Google has a 20 year monopoly on search boxes with 2 buttons. Meaning no one else can do this in the U.S. or any country that recognizes software patents. How does this help increase innovation?" - Michael Sherrin

There are calls to have this ap removed. Because Apple doesn't exert enough power over what's allowed on the iPhone, let's encourage them to control more. - Michael Sherrin

It's been yanked already. And there is some dude on digg that "clicked buy jokingly" but now wants to get his money back because his wife setup instant buy in iTunes - James Williams

That's unfortunate. Both Apple pulling the app and the guy wasting $1,000. - Michael Sherrin

"I've always had problems with Delicious' design and it kept me from avidly using the service and so far the redesign has fixed a lot of things that kept me away from it. Alphabetical sorting, getting rid of the annoying orange popularity rank, and easier navigation. Any redesign is going to annoy current users (Facebook, I'm looking at you) but hopefully this design can bring some new people (like me) into the bookmarking fold." - Michael Sherrin

To kick off Geek Musical Week, Prodigeek speaks to Joss Whedon about his upcoming internet, musical, superhero series, Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog coming to a website near you next week. - Michael Sherrin

Superheroes, demons, and plants are not your standard musical subject matter, but for the unique genre of Geek Musicals, they are the C# to our A major chord. - Michael Sherrin

"I'm disappointed. One ignorant person who doesn't want free publicity is hurting a valuable service. Just like search, people can easily control how others see their feeds. Their lack of knowledge shouldn't be your fault. I hope full feeds can return, I always prefer them." - Michael Sherrin

"I've been looking for more niche aggregators, like Techmeme and memeorandum. Soon, though, we're going to need aggregators for the aggregators - there's just too many of them, it's becoming overwhelming to submit, vote, track, comment, and read everything on all of them." - Michael Sherrin

"I've been looking for more niche aggregators, like Techmeme and memeorandum. Soon, though, we're going to need aggregators for the aggregators - there's just too many of them, it's becoming overwhelming to submit, vote, track, comment, and read everything on all of them." - Michael Sherrin

"I've been looking for more niche aggregators, like Techmeme and memeorandum. Soon, though, we're going to need aggregators for the aggregators - there's just too many of them, it's becoming overwhelming to submit, vote, track, comment, and read everything on all of them." - Michael Sherrin

"We should get our news from blogs and only blogs. Boycott mainstream media, whatever that means anymore. I just wonder if the AP pays everyone it quotes." - Michael Sherrin

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"You've gotten me really excited about Toluu. Can you please email an invite to mikecs83@yahoo.com Thanks" - Michael Sherrin

"You've gotten me really excited about Toluu. Can you please email an invite to mikecs83@yahoo.com Thanks" - Michael Sherrin

"I really agree with letting users rule for the added reason that it doesn't matter how people read your blog or content, as long as they're reading it. Yes it's frustrating to not be able to easily track all the comments about your posts in once place, but the more people talk about you and your content, the more influence and value you have. This is the value free bloggers really want." - Michael Sherrin

"I really agree with letting users rule for the added reason that it doesn't matter how people read your blog or content, as long as they're reading it. Yes it's frustrating to not be able to easily track all the comments about your posts in once place, but the more people talk about you and your content, the more influence and value you have. This is the value free bloggers really want." - Michael Sherrin

"I really agree with letting users rule for the added reason that it doesn't matter how people read your blog or content, as long as they're reading it. Yes it's frustrating to not be able to easily track all the comments about your posts in once place, but the more people talk about you and your content, the more influence and value you have. This is the value free bloggers really want." - Michael Sherrin

"I'm not I'm familiar with your alternative. I've always viewed Digg, Reddit, and these bookmarking sites as best-of-what-you-won't easily find, thus making weird news or cool features the bread and butter of the site. Big news articles always fit in, of course, but I never viewed Digg's value in news articles since, eventually, big enough stories rise to the top. Techmeme however is a much more newsy resources and arguably one of the best places to find immediate news. Both remain useful for different reasons and obviously still have tweaking to do to be even more efficient (Digg repeats stories way too much)." - Michael Sherrin

"Just like Verizon's open network, I wonder if this is a lot of hype. I mean, we have Open Social waiting in the sidelines to take over. Anyway, does anyone even use MySpace anymore anyway, aside from all those spammers?" - Michael Sherrin

Yes, Prodigeek is turning into the geek’s Dr. Ruth. Sexual fantasies are a fun and healthy way to "spend time" with your partner and us geeks have some creative ideas of our own. - Michael Sherrin

Every geek dreams of commanding their own starship, but few get the chance. I want to recognize the starship captains that have inspired us over the years. They’ve shown up how to lead and how not to lead. - Michael Sherrin

I recently broke up with my boyfriend of about ten months. In that time, we shared some great memories. And like all memories, they have to immortalized on my Facebook and Myspace pages. So now we break up. What do we do with all this baggage? - Michael Sherrin

For every grade school book report, I tried to argue with my teachers that comic books had legitimate literary value. But times have changed. Comics, it seems, have earned some legitimacy. Video games are the new medium to legitimize. - Michael Sherrin

Just in time for primary season, I went over the greatest presidents no one ever voted for (well, not all). These 7 public servants are not necessarily good presidents; they have been great at being bad, but they are the most memorable and influential. - Michael Sherrin

Let’s take the time to explore this fashion forward practice a little further. This advice can be used by men and women. There are many ways to style belt buckles for many occasions. The key is to consider if the belt buckle will be the focus of your ou - Michael Sherrin

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ep. Howard Berman, aka Congressman Hollywood, is one of the most powerful members of the House when it comes to intellectual property issues, so when he muses aloud about "revisiting" the DMCA, people listen. - Michael Sherrin

Comic book companies have remained out of the dialogue until their recent requests for BitTorrent tracker Z-Cult FM to pull its comic book torrents. This new front in the War on Piracy will be another example why the war can’t be won - and why it shoul - Michael Sherrin

See scans of Electronic Gaming Monthly's exclusive on Street Fighter IV. - Michael Sherrin