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Steve Gillmor / ZDNet:
Blogosfear — It's amazing how quickly we settle into a notion of what's the right thing to do. Take the crisis over newspaper business models. As my brother and the Cluetrain brothers have lamented, the newspaper business is on the decline. The Times and Knight Ridder have announced significant cuts …
Om Malik / Om Malik's Broadband Blog:
Soccer Moms Out, Mouse Moms In — Broadband is changing family lives for the better. A recent research report by UK-based Demos (conducted for AOL UK) says that the fastest growing demographic on the Internet are women. Between 2000 and 2005, the proportion of women online rose from 39% to 63% …
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Jeremy Watson / Scotsman:
'Mousewives' drive the net revolution — TIME was when the matriarchal role involved educating the children through teatime TV, taking them to the doctor to treat a mystery malaise, and administering the odd clip around the ear. — But the traditional housewife has been transformed …
Andrew Orlowski / The Register:
Microsoft: beating itself back to health? — It's masochism fortnight at Redmond! — Microsoft's PR campaign of self-flagellation continues - with senior executives offering the Wall Street Journal's Rob Guth an account of why Windows Vista will arrive so late and so incomplete.
David Kesmodel / Wall Street Journal:
For Native Content — Yahoo Inc. has hired a roster of popular authors to write financial columns for its Web site, marking one of the company's biggest moves into original content. — The Internet company today will begin publishing columns about personal finance and investing by an array of writers …
Peter Rojas / Engadget:
Labels hit back at Apple, now want share of iPod revenues — Apple and the major record labels have been cruising towards a confrontation over iTunes Music Store pricing for months now, and one label head, namely Warner Music Group CEO Edgar Bronfman is responding angrily to Stevie J's comments last week about "greedy" record labels.
Tor / brainscat.com:
Switching... Again — Scoble said Russel's thinking of switching back. I just finished switching last night. — You see, I love OS X, and I think it's a better operating system than Windows XP. It has a better permissions model, way cleaner UI (mostly), better looks, and better UNIX interop.
Steven Levy / Newsweek:
eBay's Bet: The Skype's the Limit — Oct. 3, 2005 issue - When I talked to Meg Whitman last week, we used plain old telephones. But since both of us belong to the 54 million-member Skype community—a global society one joins simply by signing up to use that company's voice over Internet protocol …
english.chosun.com:
OhmyNews Infected With Trojan Horse — The well-known Korean online news service OhmyNews, which is written by its readers, has reportedly been infected with a ¡°Trojan Horse,¡± a malicious code that allows hackers to steal personal information.
Business Week:
Managing Google's Idea Factory — Marissa Mayer helps the search giant out-think its rivals — In late 1998, when Marissa Mayer first heard about a small outfit called Google, she barely batted an eye. The Stanford University grad student was urged by her adviser to pay a visit to two guys …
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