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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.
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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 …
Lockergnome / Chris Pirillo:Google: Kill Blogspot Already!!!
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TechCrunch, Things That … …, Terry Heaton's Weblog, evhead, Smalltalk Tidbits …, The RSS Blog and Life On the Wicked Stage
tbray.org:Splogsplosion — Holy cow, I just wrote about splogs …
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Russell Beattie Notebook
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).
Steve Rubel / Micro Persuasion:
A New RSS Reader Hits Town, But How Many Will Survive? — There's a new web-based RSS reader in town. It's called inform. What differentiates inform from others is that you can easily dig deeper into any news story by drilling into its relevant topics, people, places, industries and organizations.
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.
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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 …
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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 …
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
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Wi-Fi Networking News
Detroit News:
FBI puts stop to spam king — Agents close up shop by seizing equipment from bulk e-mailer's W. Bloomfield home in recent raid. — Michigan's unapologetic king of bulk e-mail is in trouble again. This time, an FBI raid has closed what some consider one of the world's largest houses of spam.
O'Reilly Network:
Ruby on Rails — Jarkko Laine, Founder and Sole Hacker, O'Design — Application development for the Web seems to fall into either the quick 'n' dirty camp with the likes of PHP or the hard 'n' heavy with the likes of Java. But it need not be like that.
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The Silent Penguin
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 …
Gary Price / Search Engine Watch Blog:
More on Google's Plan for Wi-Fi in San Francisco; Text of Google's Filing Available — If you're interested in learning more about Google's plan (one of 17) for providing free Wi-Fi access throughout San Francisco, the San Jose Mercury News article: S.F. unveils 17 firms' WiFi bids …
Dave Zatz / Zatz Not Funny:
TiVo 7.3 is 7.2.1 And Other News — I managed to corner some more TiVo folks here at DigitalLife and take some interesting photos. — What I conveniently called system software 7.3 yesterday turns out to be 7.2.1, for those of you keeping score. I looked closer at the "Overlap Protection" …
