Quoted: The official site of The Week Magazine US edition. The best of the US and international media. Daily coverage of commentary and analysis of the day?s events, as well as arts, entertainment, people and gossip, and political cartoons.

Google made a *policy* change to their First Click Free program. This is all about Google anti-"cloaking" policy. A web site may not show one thing to Google, and another thing to users. If you do - Google will remove you from their index.

But they have exceptions for subscription/registration sites. They are allowed to put up a pay-wall (subscription/registration requirement) as long as clicks coming from Google referred pages (News and Search) are exempted. As long as your landing page on your site is visible to users with it's full content, you can put up a pay wall on subsequent clicks in your site.

This weeks announcement allows publishers to be a bit more restrictive in their policy. They can now block the 6th and later link from a Google site each day. Google is doing nothing new here - but just changing their allowed policy for publishers implementing First Click Free.

You can run native code in the Chrome Browser environment (on Windows).

All the Google Twitter Accounts listed here.

Run this script in Firebug to get the list:

a = document.getElementsByTagName('a');
r = /twitter\.com/i
for (i in a)
{
s = a[i].href;
if (r.test(s))
console.log(s);
}

Wow - someone using the "dots" terminology just as we did for Blue Dot in 2005!

The NYT says RescueTime is the "epitome" of personal time tracking software.

Another google labs product - a news timeline. You can set the resolution to "Decade" and see just the top stories by decade. Here's a Museum of Flight search.

I didn't know Google was scanning old news stories - here's one from 1981 about the creation of the Museum of Flight.

Amazing demonstration that we can read letters by only seeing the top half...

Quoted: American handwriting is in a woeful state. But there is hope. We can stop mumbling on the page and become legible writers by going italic.