As the battle for Silicon Valley engineering talent intensifies, it seems as if hot tech companies like Apple, Facebook, Google and Twitter have launched some sort of ridiculous competition as to who could can score the biggest Hollywood talent for an onsite appearance, in order to wow current and future employees

More than a week later, three News Foo themes continue to resonate with me: the future of long-form journalism, the challenge of delivering context online, and the need to rebuild trust. I take a look each theme in the sections that follow.

In that spirit, “saving newspapers” is confusing means with ends. Our problem isn’t saving newspapers. It’s protecting the social mission that journalists have taken on, and saving (or creating) jobs for the people, including journalists, who work in newspaper companies. The papers, as they exist now, are a distraction!

And that’s what it is: a theology. One need only read many of the bloggers and commentators in the wake of the announcement to see that what The Times is being accused of is not greed, but heresy.

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In a nutshell, alkasir is a program that works together with its website (https://alkasir.com) and proxy servers to allow users to circumvent (bypass) censorship of URLs. It is predominantly used by persons in countries where there is censorship of political content such as news, opinion articles, blog entries, forum discussions, political videos, etc.

Its initial pricing — and it’s worth noting that all of this is initial; the FT, for example, has been tweaking pricing and access rules for nine years — is $15 per four weeks (now that’s a newspaper model, eschewing what most humans call “months,” to revenue advantage) month for a desktop/laptop + smartphone bundle, or $20 per four weeks for desktop + laptop + tablet or, finally, $35 per four weeks for “all digital access.” Print subscribers of any kind get digital access newly included at no extra cost.

In many ways it is no different to traditional subscriptions: it is the difference between paying for regular deliveries of the whole paper package, and picking up a newspaper that someone has left on the bus or the staff canteen, or borrowing one from a friend, for free.

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manda’s talk was great, however, and I highly recommend it to anyone thinking of using R as an exploratory tool for professional data visualization.

Those who say they will refuse to pay to read The Times and will opt for a free alternative instead shouldn't kid themselves that they are upholding a principle, sticking it to the man or benefiting a cause other than themselves. What they are really doing is saying this: news, comment, good writing, proper reporting, photo-journalism, and journalism as a whole, is worthless.

The Daily Mail does not have to identify the people behind two anonymously posted comments on its website because to do so would breach their rights to privacy, the high court has said.