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Susannah Cullinane / BBC:
The old new — Why should a transistor radio from 1954 be causing a buzz online? Could it be part of a realisation that, amid talk of invention, no novelty is completely new? — The Old Testament Book of Ecclesiastes has a few words to say about novelty, fashion and innovation.
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Mena / About Six Apart:
Mena Trott's Mom — Last night we got back from DEMO Fall 2005 where we introduced "Project Comet," our code name for the technologies we're building to be the next generation of weblogging offerings from Six Apart. Apart from the excitement of finally introducing and announcing something we've …
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Dick / Burning Questions:
PingShot: Speedy Content Distribution for Everybody — If you use FeedBurner, we now provide a service that notifies aggregators, search engines, and directories about your content updates as quickly as possible. When you use the new PingShot service, we will 'ping' a collection of services …
Peter Rojas / Engadget:
The Palm Treo 700w (aka Treo 670) - Exclusive first look! — Check it out: we got our hands on the new Windows Mobile-powered Treo, but it ain't called the Treo 670 anymore (if it even ever was called that), it's the Treo 700w (which implies—but doesn't guarantee—the existence of a Palm-powered Treo 700p).
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PC World's Techlog, TinyScreenfuls.com, Gadgetophile, The WiFi Weblog, Cell phone news and reviews and jkOnTheRun
Chris Pratley / Chris_Pratley's OneNote WebLog:
More OneNote 12 Goodness — I thought I would discuss a few new capabilities of "OneNote 12" that I think many current users are dying to see appear. Certainly each of these has appeared many times in our newsgroups and in our suggestion lists in the OneNote community site.
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jkOnTheRun
Technology News, Science News:
Google's Lackluster Blog Search — The long-awaited tool is fast and sorts by relevance. But it misses results and lets in too much spam — EDITOR'S REVIEW — THE GOOD Lets users pick between most relevant and most recent blogs. And it's fast — THE BAD Doesn't provide complete results, and includes too many spam blogs
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Business Logs, Search Engine Journal, The RSS Blog, The Blog Herald and Tech.Life.Blogged
Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:
It's not the platform, redux — The minute I hit "publish" on the post below (and what an anachronistic verb that is, eh?), I started reading Bob Cauthorn's screed on the future or lack thereof for newspapers. We're singing in harmony. After predicting that large papers in the U.S …
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Dan Ilett / silicon.com:
Mobile phone virus claims are "bonkers", says Sophos — Chances of infection are low... Antivirus firm Sophos has slammed a competitor's claims that it found the world's first "serious" mobile phone virus. — Earlier this month, F-Secure was questioned over hyping mobile phone viruses in a bid to sell antivirus products.
Loren Baker / Search Engine Journal:
Search Engine Blogs as Public Relations Tools — Search Engine Blogs as Public Relations Tools — Blogs are used for various reasons including reporting news, communicating with specific groups of readers, and as Mark Cuban may tell you, spamming. With millions of active blogs …
Cameron / overstated:
Goodbye MIT, hello Yahoo! — This message has been a long time in the coming, but thanks to the ubiquity of the internet I've been outed. Sometime in late august I turned in a final draft of my thesis which afforded me this wonderful scrap of paper: — Since I won't technically …
Tom Coates / plasticbag.org is a weblog:
A response to the rhetoric of weblog marketing... The story so far... Ben Metcalfe takes a vague swipe at the Stormhoek wine that Hugh MacLeod is marketing through the blogosphere. The approach Hugh is taking is to offer free bottles of the wine to webloggers on the understanding …
Cyrus Farivar / Wired News:
Goof Lets Times' Content Go Free — On Monday, The New York Times introduced the first paid section of its online version. In less than 24 hours, someone found a way around the TimesSelect paid subscription service. — Never Pay Retail was created on the same day that TimesSelect began.
Brian Krebs / Security Fix:
Exploit Released for Firefox, Netscape Flaw — Computer code that could let attackers take complete control over computers cruising the Web with unpatched versions of the Firefox Internet browser has been released, so if you're using Firefox and haven't upgraded to the latest version, do it now.
