John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
How to Block the DiggBar  —  Last week Digg released something they call the DiggBar, which serves as both a new interface for Digg and doubles as a URL shortening service.  The way it works is that you just add “digg.com/” at the beginning of any URL, and Digg creates […]

John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
How and Why to Block the DiggBar  —  Last week Digg released something they call the DiggBar, which both serves as a new interface for Digg and doubles as a URL shortening service.  The way it works is that you just add “digg.com/” at the beginning of any URL, and […]

Devin Coldewey / CrunchGear:
TechCrunch Tablet makes an early debut  —  Leaks are always hardest when they hit at home.  Now we know how Apple feels.  The party responsible for the leak has been penalized severely (whipped with wet spaghetti), so believe us when we say this kind of thing won’t ever happen again.

Josh Lowensohn / CNET News:
Domain Pigeon now finds open Twitter names  —  Domain Pigeon, the domain finding service that lets you search and browse unclaimed domains, now does the same thing for Twitter usernames.  It shows you which names are unclaimed, and puts some of the most recent or popular additions on the front […]

Saul Hansell / Bits:
Time Warner’s Unlimited Download Plan: $150 a Month  —  Time Warner Cable has modestly softened its plan to test usage limits for its broadband data customers.  Landel Hobbs, the company’s chief operating officer, has just published a post with the new price tiers for a test of the plan it will […]

Saul Hansell / Bits:
Time Warner’s Unlimited Bandwidth Plan: $150 a Month  —  Time Warner Cable has modestly softened its proposal to impose bandwidth limits on all of its broadband data customers.  Landel Hobbs, the company’s chief operating officer, has just published a post with the new price tiers for a test of the plan […]

Tricia Duryee / mocoNews:
Industry Moves: Research In Motion Quietly Hires A Key iPhone Designer  —  BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion has scooped up Don Lindsay, who according to one report played a big role in the iPhone user interface.  In his new role, he will be charged with “creating” the VP of user experience, according […]

Tricia Duryee / mocoNews:
Research In Motion Quietly Hires A Key iPhone Designer  —  BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion has scooped up Don Lindsay, who according to one report played a big role in the iPhone user interface.  In his new role, he will be charged with “creating” the VP of user experience, according to his […]

Sam Diaz / Between the Lines:
AT&T offers $100K reward in fiber optic vandalism; notes second incident  —  updated below:  —  No matter all of the advancements in wireless and mobile technology, at the end of the day, we’re all still connected to a big wire somewhere.  Early this morning, we discovered that one of […]

narcissistic infarction:
Did Arrington actually pull off the Crunchpad WiFi tablet?  —  When he announced it a few months ago, I thought there was a slim chance that Arrington’s CrunchPad would come to fruition.  A $200 12″ touchscreen with WiFi and Firefox seemed pretty difficult to imagine.