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Nathan Weinberg / InsideGoogle:
HOW WEBLOGS INC GAMES THE SYSTEM — It just occured to me: You know those posts Weblogs Inc feeds us about once a week, the ones that tell us "The Best Of Weblogs Inc"? They're all gaming Technorati. — See, the latest one of these "posts" contains 69 links to other Weblogs properties, and Technorati counts every single one.
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Weblogs / The Unofficial Google Weblog:
After a long hard week it's time for the best of the Weblogs, Inc. network — The Weblogs, Inc. network features over 100 independent, unfiltered bloggers producing over 1,000 blog posts a week across over 75 industry-leading blogs. Each week we ask our bloggers to choose their top posts …
Lockergnome / Chris Pirillo:
Google: Kill Blogspot Already!!! — In the past few days, I've been inundated with an enormous amount of subscribed search spam for designated keywords. To the tune of hundreds, if not THOUSANDS, of bunk entries. Who knew "lockergnome" and "pirillo" would be THAT popular?!
Clive Thompson / New York Times:
Meet the Life Hackers — In 2000, Gloria Mark was hired as a professor at the University of California at Irvine. Until then, she was working as a researcher, living a life of comparative peace. She would spend her days in her lab, enjoying the sense of serene focus that comes …
Google Blogoscoped:
Google's Privacy Policy In Layman's Words — I've gone through the "highlights" of the Google Privacy Policy (which recently changed). The highlights document is supposed to be a translation of the longer legalese found in the full privacy policy, but I think it's still not down-to-earth simple enough.
Tracy / The Student Tablet PC:
Replacement on the way! — All that hard work paid off! A replacement computer is soon to be on its way. How fast, I'm not sure, but things have been speedy so far. — Like before, I'm not sure how talkative I'll get while writing this, so I'll post all the details after the jump.
Eric Rice / Official Site:
The falsehood of "No one wants to watch 320px video" — I have never seen the TV show, Lost. Ever. I don't even know what it's about, other than what I learned by watching the series premiere. — How did I get the series premiere? I just clicked one button. I bought it for a measley two bucks, and I watched it.
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Cory Doctorow / Boing Boing:
What "game styles" haven't been mined-out? — Master game designer Greg Costikyan has posted the PowerPoint deck from his Future Play conference presentation, titled, "Imagining New Game Styles." The presentation introduces the concepts of game styles, which are related to the fundamentals …
David A. Vise / Washington Post:
Yahoo Adds Its Name to AOL's Full Dance Card — Corporate Suitors Vie to Be ISP's Search Engine of Choice — Yahoo Inc. yesterday became the latest potential suitor for America Online, joining Google Inc. and Microsoft Corp. in what may soon turn into a bidding war for the Dulles-based Internet service.
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Cory Doctorow / Boing Boing:
Katamari Damacy 2 player collections 10^6 roses with oscillating fan — This Livejournaller connected an oscillating fan to his PS2's joystick in order to have repeat the same movements over and over again without intervention, enabling him to collection one million roses in the video game We Love Katamari Damacy.
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Business Week:
A Hard Ride For eDonkey — The file-sharing service has been forced to reinvent itself by a Supreme Court ruling — On the morning of June 27, Sam Yagan huddled with his partner, Jed McCaleb, before one of the five computer screens in their dingy, one-room office in Hoboken, N.J. Yagan …
Matt Cutts:
Moving to a new web host — Several people have asked for the recommended way to move to a new webhost or IP address without having problems in Google. I tested this method this past Sunday and everything worked fine for me. I'll walk you through my example, which is moving mattcutts.com …
