What have countless sources on the internet including myself and TechDirt said before? Paywalls, no matter how great of an idea on paper, simply don’t materialize into what investors and executives want. In the age of the internet, information is available extremely cheap, extremely fast, and most importantly, without any restrictions. That’s the very core of why the internet was invented in the first place. Rupert Murdoch and many other news sites fail to...

If you’re like me — a gadget freak — chances are you follow at least a couple dozen websites religiously. For me, I love to keep it fresh here so between stories being sent in and searching the vast corners of the web, I’d say I’m making quite a trek with 256 (and growing) feeds in my feed reader. At first, I’d always try to get that unread count down to a nice round goose egg as for some strange reason, it made me feel better as a...

Travel back in time inside your mind to November 25th when we touched on fellow tech blogger Geeky-Gadgets’ less than stellar interaction with the App Store and the mindless idiots who run it. November 4th: App Submitted / November 25th app rejected If you remember, the original Geeky-Gadgets app that was submitted on November 4th was rejected because of the contest category and some BS rule in the iPhone SDK that prohibits including or linking to such things. ...

Android 2.1 (Flan) may or may not be available (depends on your level of Android hackery) yet but that doesn’t mean you can’t at least have one of the shiny new features 2.1 brings. For 2.1 Google has thrown in a new weather/news widget. It isn’t anything groundbreaking but nonetheless is a nice addition to the stock allotment of widgets. The weather widget is rather simple and shows the city, current conditions, and temperature while the news widget is...

Here in the states, media moguls are actively looking for ways to set up paywalls, decrease ease of use, and overall stifle innovation and the flow of information via the declining greatness called “the internet”. BBC is a European media giant and one of the best shining examples of how free news works. Well, it isn’t exactly “free” in the sense that it’s state funded. Still, end users don’t actively pay up to read as no...