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So you might have heard about an article that Ars Technica ran, titled Why Ad Blocking is devastating to the sites you love.  You might also have read the reply to this post on Brian Carper’s blog, Advertising is devastating to my well-being.  I actually found out about this here on John Gruber’s blog (Daring Fireball), which I follow through RSS – I don’t read Ars Technica or Brian Carper’s blog.

The basic gist is very simple, as if you couldn’t tell from the article names – Ars Technica argues that viewers on their site should not be turning off adblockers; Carper calls this stance “repugnant”; and Gruber states that he doesn’t know what the easy answer is, but links to an article on Rob Sayre’s Mozilla Blog, Why Ad Blockers Work.

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Conceptual "iSlate" render from www.gizmodo.com

The internet’s been abuzz with speculations about the “iSlate”, the rumored Apple Tablet that’s going to be announced on January 26th.  Tips and rumors have trickled in to countless websites, allowing drooling consumers eagerly awaiting its release to form some conception of what they can expect from Apple in 2010.  Not to mention that my face is bright red from facepalming each time someone makes a Moses/tablet joke in connection with this thing, which is just about every blog post.

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