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GameSpot:
TGS 2005: No more Metal Gear for Kojima?  —  Director reveals his plans to leave series after MGS 4: Guns of the Patriots; series illustrator also exiting.  —  TOKYO—Director Hideo Kojima is retiring from the Metal Gear series...again.  During an event at Konami's booth at the Tokyo Game Show today …
Discussion: Joystiq and Kotaku
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GameSpot:
TGS 2005: Kirby creator to make Metal Gear Solid 5?  —  Director Kojima jokingly gives a welcoming invitation to Masahiro Sakurai to develop series' fifth installment.  —  TOKYO—Metal Gear Solid director Hideo Kojima announced during the Tokyo Game Show that he plans to retire from the series …
Rob Fahey / gamesindustry.biz:
TGS: Kojima states PS3 loyalty with new MGS4 trailer; Moore responds
Discussion: Joystiq
Nathan Weinberg / InsideGoogle:
GOOGLE PULLS THE OTHER LEG WITH SECURE ACCESS  —  Following the Web Accelerator debacle, Google wants another crack at your entire internet traffic.  This time, its through the Google Secure Access client.  —  Located at wifi.google.com, GSA connects you to a Google-run Virtual Private Network.
John Leyden / The Register:
Firefox and Mac security sanctuaries 'under attack'  —  Symantec has attacked the perceived security advantages of Firefox and Apple Macs by drawing unfavourable comparisons with Microsoft's software and describing Mac fans as living in a "false paradise".  According to the latest edition …
Global PR Blog Week 2.0:
Adding Your Voice to the Conversation.  Why CEOs Should Blog  —  By Jeneane D. Sessum, The Content Factor |  Just how taxing is it to be one of today's chief executive officers?  Most are on call, in one form or another, nearly 24 hours a day.  According to an article in the Pocket Manager …
Discussion: Scobleizer and Burningbird
verso.com:
Verso Launches NetSpective® 2.0 Enterprise Filtering Technology with Skype™ and P2P Blocking  —  Corporations and other organizations now have unprecedented control over the content allowed on their networks, resulting in improved productivity and reduced litigation potential
Discussion: EuroTelcoblog
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nasa.gov:
How We'll Get Back to the Moon  —  Before the end of the next decade, NASA astronauts will again explore the surface of the moon.  And this time, we're going to stay, building outposts and paving the way for eventual journeys to Mars and beyond.  There are echoes of the iconic images of the past …
Discussion: greg hughes and Metafilter
Paul Thurrott / winsupersite.com:
Microsoft Windows Vista Build 5219 (Community Technical Preview 1) Review  —  As promised, Microsoft delivered an interim build of Windows Vista—build 5219—to attendees of the Professional Developers Conference (PDC 2005) in mid-September 2005.  That build, which later went …
Discussion: TechSpot
Merlin / 43 Folders:
Writing sensible email messages  —  As we've seen before, getting your inbound email under control will give you a huge productivity boost, but what about all the emails you send?  If you want to be a good email citizen and ensure the kind of results you're looking for …
Discussion: Boing Boing and Lifehacker
Susan Getgood / Marketing Roadmaps:
Hurricane Katrina Relief, HP Charity Auction, American Red Cross and DATA  —  I was basically in non-blogging mode when Hurricane Katrina hit and the levees broke, and by the time I got back in blog-gear, it didn't seem like the blogosphere needed yet another post reminding people to donate to the Red Cross or another relief charity.
The Doc Searls Weblog:
This is weird.  Worse, it's sad and bad for Google.  —  I can see keeping discussions "off the record" in embargoed or NDA'd conditions, where product plans are being disclosed.  Also where the context is meetings with customers.  Those conditions are well understood by everybody, and have been for decades.
Danny / Danny Ayers, Raw Blog:
Wrong heel  —  I wasn't going to post this, which I typed last night.  I hadn't really covered some of the bits I wanted to cover, and am not entirely happy with the bits I have, so I stuck up those QOTD instead.  But after reading Shelley "Pit Bull Leather" Power's Ignore the fact that it's working post I thought I might as well.
Discussion: Burningbird and Web 2.0 Explorer
Global PR Blog Week 2.0:
Surprising Partners: Adding Blogs to an Existing Non-Profit Community  —  by Nancy White (Full Circle Associates) and Lee LeFever (Common Craft)  —  In 2004, the March of Dimes created a new online community to support their mission to improve the health of babies by preventing birth defects, premature birth, and infant mortality.

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