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One more entry before logging off for the night. A startup in Chicago plans to print blogs with local advertisements and distribute them free. Will it catch on?

Newspaper Enlists Startup To Police Web For Copyright Violations - 04/23/2010

"Back in October, the startup tech firm Silent Circle ruffled governments' feathers with a "surveillance-proof" smartphone app to allow people to make secure phone calls and send texts easily. Now, the company is pushing things even further-with a groundbreaking encrypted data transfer app that will enable people to send files securely from a smartphone or tablet at the touch of a button. (For now, it's just being released for iPhones and iPads, though Android versions should come soon.) That means photographs, videos, spreadsheets, you name it-sent scrambled from one person to another in a matter of seconds." In an age where we can pretty much assume we're being monitored 24/7, is this a good thing? Or is this another tool for some really terrible people to do some really terrible things, but now with an added layer of privacy?

News, profiles and commentary on Seattle technology startups, Microsoft, Amazon.com, gadgets, PCs, software, venture capital and Internet services.

News, profiles and commentary on Seattle technology startups, Microsoft, Amazon.com, gadgets, PCs, software, venture capital and Internet services.

Financing a publishing project by crowdsourcing. 

Name: BookLamp Quick Pitch: A book recommendation engine built on book content and writing style instead of sales data. Genius Idea: Making it easier to discover good books that haven't neared the best seller list yet.

Interesting article (though severak days old now) about typefaces on the web.

Findings' creators, the folks at startup incubator Betaworks, refer to their creation as a "social commonplace book,"