Madoff Employee Breaks Silence. By Lucinda Franks at The Daily Beast.

No Return to Normal: Why the economic crisis, and its solution, are bigger than you think. By James K. Galbraith at Washington Monthly.
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Making Sense of the Financial Mess . Submission from Emilia Klimiuk.

Amazing Eye Macros (23 Pictures) . High-rez closeups of eyes; very small creatures' eyes are much magnified. Village Of Joy.

Internet Archive to unveil massive Wayback Machine data center:" The Wayback Machine stores 85 billion Web pages dating back to '96. ComputerWorld.

Die, newspaper, die? / The geek gurus all weigh in on the end of dead-tree media. Are they wrong?. Mark Morford at the San Francisco Chronicle.

Show it, don't tell it: The Free v. Paid Online Content Debate. Newspaper Association of America.

Newspaper companies, in these tough economic times, are taking a serious look at whether they should be charging Web users to read the newspaper's valuable online content.

In this series of articles, the Newspaper Association of America takes a look at the debate, analyzes the results of newspaper's paid and free online models, and considers the major factors influencing executives' decisions on whether to charge for online content.

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Debate over.

via Will Sullivan "Awesome epic failure. The NAA just demonstrated why paid content fails. They publish this report, try and publicize it on the internet and it's only available to paid members."