Although the news broke over the past weekend, this morning NYT officially confirmed it will start charging for access to its Web site in 2011. Per the short and sweet press release:

"The new approach, referred to as the metered model, will offer users free access to a set number of articles per month and then charge users once they exce ... more...

The hide button on facebook is a wonderful thing. It presents Facebook lovers with a wonderful choice – the option to not see everything that everyone is talking about per status updates.

We all have friends on Facebook from whom we don’t want to receive constant updates– same thing goes for all of those darn applications. But, you don’t want to unfriend people, because that just makes you look bad.

So, we use ... more...