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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close September 8 – October 8, 2009 826 stories · Vol. 09 · Catalogue 41 · Issue 281 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

How to run a small consultancy / freelancing business

jacquesmattheij.com · 1 sources

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What dominated October

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    How not to test that mysqld is alive

    7 of 30 days · 10 articles

  2. Technology

    Looking into the future with Cassandra

    7 of 30 days · 8 articles

  3. Technology

    Rich Hickey's Clojure Bookshelf

    4 of 30 days · 6 articles

Business 40 stories

  1. How to run a small consultancy / freelancing business

    jacquesmattheij.com · 1 outlets

  2. Working for startups sucks, you'll be happier working for The Man

    substitute.livejournal · 1 outlets

  3. Mark Zuckerberg: The evolution of a remarkable CEO

    venturebeat.com · 1 outlets

  4. Fundable comes to an ugly end

    fundable.com · 1 outlets

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  1. Flash Professional CS5 will build native iPhone and iPod Touch applications

    labs.adobe.com · 1 outlets

  2. @2gov - Visas for startup founders movement

    2gov.org · 2 outlets

  3. Email Newsletters Are Serious Business

    jasonlbaptiste.com · 1 outlets

  4. The Best Deal In Startup Land

    avc.com · 1 outlets

  5. What I Learned From My Failed Startup

    snapsummit.com · 3 outlets

  6. TC50 Backstage: Why PG Was Mean and Which YC Companies Will IPO

    techcrunch.com · 1 outlets

  7. Boston startup events, resources, people you need to know

    techcrunch.com · 2 outlets

  8. Startup Bootcamp: October 12th at MIT with many YC speakers

    startupbootcamp.mit.ed · 1 outlets

  9. Twitter Closing New Venture Round At $1 Billion Valuation

    techcrunch.com · 1 outlets

  10. Jeff Bezos supposedly invested $250k in Google in '98, worth $1.6 billion today

    techflash.com · 1 outlets

Sports 27 stories

  1. How Tim Schafer Broke Into the Game Industry: A Legendary Cover Letter

    doublefine.com · 1 outlets

  2. Judge Orders Google To Deactivate User's Gmail Account and Disclose Identity

    mediapost.com · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. Land of Lisp: Learn to Program in Lisp, One Game at a Time

    amazon.com · 1 outlets

  2. The end of AI winter?

    machineslikeus.com · 1 outlets

  3. ACM 20 Most Influential Papers on Programming Languages [tarball]

    dl.getdropbox.com · 1 outlets

  4. 21-year-old computer geek makes £1m with online game (Torn)

    telegraph.co.uk · 1 outlets

  5. Why aeroplane wings aren't dimpled like golf balls

    aerospaceweb.org · 1 outlets

  6. John Carmack's Armadillo Aerospace "wins" Lunar Lander Challenge [video]

    thelaunchpad.xprize.or · 1 outlets

Technology 629 stories

  1. The Duct Tape Programmer

    joelonsoftware.com · 5 outlets

  2. Building an Echo Server Using Tornado

    tomayko.com · 3 outlets

  3. Using SVN makes your site extremely vulnerable

    gnuu.org · 5 outlets

Show 9 more

  1. Grand Central Dispatch Now Open to All

    macresearch.org · 4 outlets

  2. Courier - Microsoft's Secret Tablet?

    gizmodo.com · 1 outlets

  3. How not to test that mysqld is alive

    bret.appspot.com · 10 outlets

  4. Looking into the future with Cassandra

    techcrunch.com · 8 outlets

  5. Norman Borlaug on Organic Farming

    news.bbc.co.uk · 3 outlets

  6. A terrible tragedy: Dan Haubert of Ticketstumbler (fallentimes) has passed away

    ticketstumbler.com · 1 outlets

  7. Yeah Ok, So Facebook Punk’d Us

    techcrunch.com · 1 outlets

  8. When a co-founder dies

    blog.ivylees.com · 1 outlets

  9. This Is a Photoshop and It Blew My Mind - Photosketch

    gizmodo.com · 1 outlets

Entertainment 10 stories

  1. Aaron Swartz shows his FBI file

    aaronsw.com · 1 outlets

  2. Grand Prize Awarded To BellKor Pragmatic Chaos

    netflixprize.com · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. Netflix Prize Movie Similarity Visualization

    blog.smellthedata.com · 3 outlets

  2. Netflix's tail massage

    roughtype.com · 1 outlets

  3. Tell HN: Paul Graham on TC50 panel, streaming live

    ustream.tv · 1 outlets

  4. Justin.tv founders named as top 30 under 30 by Inc.

    inc.com · 1 outlets

  5. 7 ways I’ve almost killed FreshBooks

    entrepreneur.venturebe · 1 outlets

  6. Music Sales

    nytimes.com · 1 outlets

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