New York Times Chairman Arthur Sulzberger Jr. appears close to announcing that the paper will begin charging for access to its website, according to people familiar with internal deliberations. After a year of sometimes fraught debate inside the paper, the choice for some time has been between a Wall Street Journal-type pay wall and the metered system adopted by the Financial Times, in which readers can sample a certain number of free articles before being asked to subscribe. The Times seems to have settled on the metered system.

via New York Times Ready to Charge Online Readers — Daily Intel.

We’ve heard it all — from 7-inch to 12-inch screen sizes, with launch dates now mostly pointing to the first half of 2010, but Boy Genius claims they now know for certain just how big the mythical device will be in the end.According to their report, Apple Tablet is “definitely coming in 7? size.” This doesn’t exclude a bigger, 10” tablet although Apple simultaneously releasing two different tablets sounds highly unlikely, but Boy Genius’ source is “100%” about the 7-incher. There’s also a date attached to this rumor, with Apple supposedly set to announce the tablet in January. We won’t mind if they do.

via Apple Tablet With 7″ Screen Coming in January [RUMOR].

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Famed micro-blogging site Twitter has acquired location tracking firm Mixer Labs for an undisclosed amount. The acquisition would help the site to enhance the “contextual” relevance of location to tweets – messages posted on the site which can have a maximum of 140 characters.

via Twitter buys location tracking entity Mixer Labs.

There are a lot of misconceptions when it comes to social media. People seem to think that every day standards and decency get tossed out the window because of the anonymity of the Internet. Unfortunately for those people, that’s not always the case. First off, the Internet is getting smaller, and by that, I mean that it’s getting easier to find out who people are. You know how the saying goes “It’s a small world.” That reigns true for the Internet, especially social media sites, as well. Everyone is connected one way or another. There’s a whole “Six Degrees of Separation” thing going on.

There are Ten Commandments of Social Media that you should always try to follow. They will not only make you a better person but they will make your followers that much more appreciative of what you have to say.

via Ten Commandments of Social Media – Noupe.

In an effort to enhance the Web experience and speed things up for users, Google is getting into the DNS business. DNS has privacy and security implications, though, that Google has to take into consideration in providing this service.

via Google Strives to Make Public DNS Secure – PC World Business Center.