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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 …
Discussion: Scripting News and ben barren
Matt Reed / Wired News:
IPod Maps Draw Legal Threats  —  Transit officials in New York and San Francisco have launched a copyright crackdown on a website offering free downloadable subway maps designed to be viewed on the iPod.  —  IPodSubwayMaps.com is the home of iPod-sized maps of nearly two dozen different …
Discussion: Techdirt
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% …
Discussion: broadband
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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 …
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 …
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.
Discussion: Shanti A. Braford and digg
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.
Michael Stoll / gradethenews.org:
Mercury News plans to shrink newsroom by 52 jobs  —  16% reduction ends week of newspaper industry buyouts and layoffs;  —  Cuts are 'painful,' says editor, but the paper will survive  —  The San Jose Mercury News said Friday that it would reduce its staff by 60, including 52 in the newsroom …
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.
Discussion: Techdirt and Smart Mobs
Paul Rudnick / New Yorker:
INTELLIGENT DESIGN  —  Day No. 1:  —  And the Lord God said, "Let there be light," and lo, there was light.  But then the Lord God said, "Wait, what if I make it a sort of rosy, sunset-at-the-beach, filtered half-light, so that everything else I design will look younger?"  —  "I'm loving that," said Buddha.

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