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Dsifry / Sifry's Alerts:
State of the Blogosphere, October 2005 Part 1: On Blogosphere Growth  —  It is that time of the year again, and I've got some new information on the continued growth of the blogosphere.  I made this presentation as part of my 10 minute talk at Web 2.0 on October 6, 2005.
Mark Cuban / Blog Maverick:
Get Your Blogspot S**t Together Google  —  It was exactly two months ago I wrote about problems that Icerocket.com and really, the entire blogosphere was having with Splogs created and maintained on Blogger.com, with a blogspot.com URL.  —  Well the S**t hit the fan today.
Discussion: LexBlog Blog, Techdirt and TechBlog
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A Whole Lotta Nothing:
when it rains, it pours  —  (67spamblogs, originally uploaded by mathowie)  —  I have an ego feed I check every few days for my last name (fairly rare) from technorati.  On a normal day there might be one or two mentions of my last name and it's not always about me, but it's useful …
Discussion: Mashable*
Lockergnome / Chris Pirillo:
Google Responds to Splog Problem!
Bob Tedeschi / New York Times:
All the News That You Can Use.  And More.  —  NEWS enthusiasts, rejoice.  A Web site is being introduced today that will not only let you find articles on the topic of your choice from hundreds of newspapers and magazines, it will also alert you to all the other news accounts floating around cyberspace …
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Rali / PaidContent.org:
Inform.com?  Not Really...  [by rafat] : Inform.com, a 55-person NYC-based news search startup, launched in beta today, and NYT covers it.  The company has been formed by Neal Goldman, the former founder and CEO of CapitalIQ (which got bought out by McGraw-Hill last year for $225 million).
Tom Coates / plasticbag.org is a weblog:
Farewell BBC - and hello Yahoo!  —  Right then!  It's time to get everything out in the open and talk about some of the stuff that's been going on behind the scenes over the last few months.  First things first - and this will probably come as a bit of a surprise to a few people …
Discussion: Guardian Unlimited
Dave Winer / Scripting News:
Since coming back to the Bay Area, most weekends when I'm in town I have breakfast with Steve Gillmor on Saturday morning.  A few weeks ago, I asked a couple of other people to join us, and maybe soon I'll ask more.  Not sure how to do this, but it's becoming interesting.
Discussion: ben barren
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Scobleizer / Microsoft Geek Blogger:
Chris Pirillo tells Google to fix BlogSpot
Associated Press:
Wi-Fi Cloud Covers Rural Oregon  —  HERMISTON, Oregon — Parked alongside his onion fields, Bob Hale can prop open a laptop and read his e-mail or, with just a keystroke, check the moisture of his crops.  —  As the jack rabbits run by, he can watch CNN online, play a video game or turn …
John Markoff / New York Times:
At Microsoft, Interlopers Sound Off on Security  —  REDMOND, Wash., Oct. 14 - In a windowless war room where Microsoft manages worldwide computer security crises, George Stathakopoulos, the general manager for security, opened a small refrigerator, revealing three bottles of Champagne.
Discussion: InfoWorld TechWatch
USA Today:
Techies: They're everywhere  —  When you think of people who are technologically savvy, you probably envision a hip young guy in Seattle or Silicon Valley or New York, sitting in a coffee shop and sending e-mail from his laptop or PDA or even his cellphone.  —  You're right, but not entirely.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
My Thoughts on Reading Lists  —  Dave Winer has been thinking about, and recently writing about, a new idea: Reading Lists.  —  OPML is a really useful file structure that just about everyone who uses a feed aggregator, like bloglines, is already using without necessarily knowing it.
Discussion: Solution Watch and Read/Write Web
sonyericsson.com:
Music transfer and download  —  One of the most appealing features of the W900 is how easy it is to import, transfer, play and manage music files.  Tracks can be imported from a variety of sources, either over-the-air direct to the phone if it supports an available operator music download service, or via a PC.
Discussion: Phone Scoop and Digital Tech Life
Vladimir Cole / Joystiq:
Nintendo DS Wi-Fi uses obsolete WEP security  —  In these flickr images captured by "Apreche" at the Digital Life Show in NYC on Friday, we can see the unlaunched interface for the Nintendo DS's Wi-Fi capabilities.  Interesting features include:  —  Save settings for up to three connections
Discussion: Wi-Fi Networking News
Ken Belson / New York Times:
Power Companies Enter the High-Speed Internet Market  —  CINCINNATI - The idea has been around for years.  In Spain and elsewhere in Europe, utility companies have long offered high-speed Internet service to consumers over their power lines.  —  But American utilities are only now beginning …
Peter Rip / EarlyStageVC:
The Web 2.0 Entrepreneur Bubble  —  There has been a lot of conversation of late about how much easier it is to start a Web software companies these days.  Open source and Moore's Law are the principal drivers.  Great stuff.  —  It's springtime in the Internet and there has been a fresh rain.

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