Techdirt
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| Owner | Floor64, Inc. |
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| Created by | Mike Masnick |
| Editor | Mike Masnick |
| Slogan(s) | Easily digestible tech news |
| Website | techdirt.com |
| Alexa rank |
 24,272 (September 2016[update]) |
| Commercial | yes |
| Registration | Optional |
| Launched | 1997 |
| Current status | Active |
Techdirt is an internet blog that reports on technology's legal challenges and related business and economic policy issues, in context of the digital revolution. It focusses on intellectual property, patent, information privacy and copyright reform in particular.
The website Masnick founded in 1997 was originally based on the weblog software Slash. Techblog's content is based on reader submissions as well as the editorial staff's picks. The website makes use of MySQL, Apache, and PHP, and is hosted at ActionWeb.
The website's "About" page describes the site as follows:
Started in 1997 by Floor64 founder Mike Masnick and then growing into a group blogging effort, the Techdirt blog uses a proven economic framework to analyze and offer insight into news stories about changes in government policy, technology and legal issues that affect companies ability to innovate and grow.
There is a guest editor section in techdirt, called "Favorite Techdirt Posts of the Week", where several high profile personalities of politics and culture contributed articles over the years; for instance Marietje Schaake, European Parliament MEP for the Netherlands, Sen. Ron Wyden of Oregon or author Glyn Moody.
On Techdirt in January 2005 the "Streisand effect" was coined by founder Mike Masnick.
In 2003 Forbes named techdirt as one of the "Best Tech Blogs". In 2006 techdirt has been praised for its "sharp, pithy analysis of current tech issues" by Bloomberg Businessweek. In 2007 techdirt was nominated for the Webby Award in the section "Web Blog - Business". Techdirt has been named among the favorite blogs of PC Magazine in 2008. In 2015 techdirt was positivly mentioned for the bold step to allow readers to remove web ads.
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