Google’s Giving YouTube a Pass With Its New Piracy Provisions

Google is implementing a new policy that will smack down search results from sites that get a lot of DMCA requests. That must affect Google’s own YouTube, which must get slammed with them all the time, right? Not exactly.   Original post on gizmodo.com    Comments on reddit.com   

Sikh tenets of forgiveness and peace on display at Oak Creek vigil – World news – guardian.co.uk

Hundreds turn out for vigil honouring victims of Wisconsin temple shooting as many learn about the faith for the first time   Original post on guardian.co.uk    Comments on reddit.com   

Kevin Rose reflects on Digg, the dangers of outside investors, and his legacy – Tech News and Analysis

Members of the media pointed to the $500,000 sale of Digg’s assets as a fall from grace for one of the web’s original social sites. Founder Kevin Rose, now at Google Ventures, looks back on what he learned and how he’s like to be seen.   Original post on gigaom.com    Comments on digg.com   

MintLife Blog – Personal Finance News & Advice – The Overhang Theory: How to Live Below Your Means

Instead of taking a look at your savings rate to evaluate your personal finances, maybe it’s time to measure your overhang. Read on to learn more about what overhang means and how this concept can help you live below your means.   Original post on mint.com    Comments on digg.com   

Innovation isn’t dead, it just moved to the cloud – Cloud Computing News

According to some doomsayers, innovation is dead and Silicon Valley is just a muck pond where social media companies breed and reproduce like mosquitoes. That’s not entirely true, but the face of innovation has changed. Cloud computing has made innovation something anyone can do.   Original post on gigaom.com    Comments on digg.com   

Ex-Microsoft Employee Launches ‘Fixing Windows 8′ Initiative

It seems that Microsoft’s latest version of Windows is receiving a mixed reaction: some people like it, and some people don’t. Naturally you can’t please everyone on the planet, but we really haven’t heard this much negativity since Windows…   Original post on tomshardware.com    Comments on reddit.com   

Internet Evolution – Editor’s Blog – RIAA CEO Hopes SOPA Protests Were a ‘One-Time Thing’

RIAA CEO Cary Sherman responds to my asking whether he really thinks an informed, democratic public is a bad thing.   Original post on internetevolution.com    Comments on reddit.com   

Brazil’s Falling Birth Rate: A ‘New Way Of Thinking’: NPR

In the past half-century, the fertility rate for a typical Brazilian woman has tumbled from six children to fewer than two. There are several factors at work, and one of them appears to be the glamorous female characters in hugely popular soap operas, who have few, if any, children.   More