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Today's the day: Blame Drew's Cancer with the all-day Blame-A-Thon!

Blame Drew's Cancer

A few months ago, we brought you news of Download Squad's long time friend and blogger Drew Olanoff's Hodgkin's Lymphoma, as well as his efforts to get everyone to blame everything on it. Since then, almost 12,000 people have credited Drew's cancer with more than 26,000 of their unfortunate or ridiculous happenings.

At midnight this morning, Drew and his crew of blamers kicked off the Blame Drew's Cancer Blame-A-Thon party/benefit concert in Philadelphia. The blame games will go on for 24 hours, during which time Drew and company will be Livestreaming the event for all to watch and chat about.

The Blame Drew's Cancer team has put together a few ways of helping to support LiveStrong during the Blame-A-Thon; blamers in Philadelphia can purchase tickets to the second portion of the event, which will be located at North Star Bar and begin at noon. Supporters can also purchase a raffle ticket for a Twitter raffle going on during all 24 hours of the event. If you simply want to donate, the blame squad encourages you to donate directly to LiveStrong on behalf of Blame Drew's Cancer.

Filed under: Business, Developer, Mozilla, Open Source, Browsers

ASK DLS: What do you think about Mozilla passing the collection plate for add-on developers?

There are plenty of Mozilla add-ons already say "Brother, can you spare a dime (if you like me)?" Mozilla is looking to take things one step further with a new Add-ons Contributions Program.

Donations will be accepted through Paypal, who offer reduced fees on micropayments under $12. Developers wanting to push the contributions button can do so using the new options in their Developer Tools for their add-ons.

What's the motivation for Mozilla here? Why, to help developers out, of course. Though if you read the blog post, it's fairly clear that at some point they'll start asking for a "handling fee:"
For this pilot, Mozilla will not earn a percentage of any contributions made by users. Developers will receive all the proceeds from contributions minus the PayPal transaction fee. (emphasis added)
Contributions are, of course, completely optional and the project is totally experimental right now. How things shake out if this evolves beyond a pilot program remains to be seen.

What are your feelings about this? Share 'em in the comments!

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