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useit.com:
Weblog Usability: The Top Ten Design Mistakes … Weblogs are a form of website. The thousands of normal website usability guidelines therefore apply to them, as do this year's top ten design mistakes. But weblogs are also a special genre of website; they have unique characteristics and thus distinct usability problems.
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raving lunacy, Gadgetopia, hyku | blog, WeBreakStuff, Boing Boing, LexBlog Blog, Guardian Unlimited, albert.tanutama.com and Google Blogoscoped
verisign.com:
News & Events — VeriSign Acquires Moreover Technologies — Real-time Aggregation Platform to Complement Blog and RSS Feed Infrastructure — MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA, October 17, 2005 - VeriSign, Inc. (Nasdaq: VRSN), the leading provider of intelligent infrastructure services for the Internet …
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Michael Graves / Welcome to the Infrablog:
VeriSign+Morever — Today, VeriSign announced the acquisition of Moreover.com. For almost a year, we've been thinking, watching and discussing (internally and externally) what's been happening in the blogosphere. By early spring, several trends emerged that were important to us:
Daniel Roth / Fortune:
Torrential Reign — Bram Cohen's BitTorrent software made it a cinch to pirate films on the Internet. So why is Hollywood on his side? — For two years after the dot-com crash, Bram Cohen could almost always be found at his small dining-room table, first in San Francisco's Nob Hill and later in Oakland.
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Dan Choi / Joystiq:
Thompson breaks his word on $10k bounty, says he was just kidding — A team of GTA modders called the Fighting Hellfish has created a San Andreas mod for the PC that Jack Thompson could have designed—that is, if he included himself as the vengeful father he proposed earlier, on a murderous rampage through the video-game industry.
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Techdirt, Cathode Tan, Slashdot, penny-arcade.com, buttonmashing.com and game girl advance
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Gabe / penny-arcade.com:Yack Thompson — Perhaps you read the letter from the National …
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Cory Doctorow / Boing Boing:
Norway's public broadcaster sells out taxpayers to Microsoft — The Norwegian public broadcaster has broken new ground with a project that has put 20,000 video clips and 12 radio stations online. That's the good news. Hell, it's better than good. It is breathtakingly amazing.
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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 …
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Alan T. Saracevic / San Francisco Chronicle:
In the year 2050, Google seeks new life forms — Oct. 16, 2050 — Google Inc. announced today yet another partnership with NASA in which the Mountain View search giant will collaborate with the much smaller government agency on the search for extraterrestrial life.
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.
Michael Singer / CNET News.com:
Palm, RIM ink licensing deal — Handheld computer makers Palm and Research In Motion inked a deal on Monday to let Treo 650 owners to connect with BlackBerry e-mail and calendar software. — The option will be available for new and existing Treo 650 users as well as future Treo products …
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Laurie J. Flynn / New York Times:Palm Inc. and BlackBerry Maker Will Sign a Licensing Agreement
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Business Week, Mobile Enterprise Weblog, Good Morning Silicon Valley and Michael Gartenberg
Laura Lundin / af.mil:
Air Force testing new transparent armor — Air Force Research Laboratory Public Affairs — 10/17/2005 - WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio (AFPN) — Engineers here are testing a new kind of transparent armor — stronger and lighter than traditional materials — that could stop armor-piercing weapons …
Doc / Doc Searls' IT Garage:
Beyond Monoculture — I became convinced today that our biggest problems are monocultures. What's bad for lawns and farms is also bad for classrooms, churches, industries, governments, political parties, banks, credit card companies and every other organization that lives by controlling and isolating its members.
cristianvidmar.com:
OPML reading lists scenarios — I agree with Alex Barnett :2006 will be a big year for OPML. The format is getting more and more traction, ideas start to flow and applications are just around the corner. On my side, I'm getting really excited about it. — Recently Dave Winer proposed …
Computerworld:
Intel slashes laptop power-up times — Robson cache technology also boosts battery life, company says — OCTOBER 17, 2005 (IDG NEWS SERVICE) - TAIPEI — Intel Corp. today unveiled a new technology that significantly reduces the time it takes for a notebook PC to power up or access programs, while also improving battery life.
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Tim Wu / Slate:
Leggo My Ego — GooglePrint and the other culture war. — Did you know you can search television? That you can type in "yada yada yada," and find the exact frames where George Costanza's girlfriend Marcy said it first? Weird as it may seem, you can do it with one of Google's little-known products, "Google Video."
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IFTF's Future Now
USA Today:
AOL swings from dying relic to coveted partner — LOS ANGELES — At a recent industry conference in San Francisco, America Online CEO Jonathan Miller called his company the "largest swing voter" in a four-way battle to dominate the Internet: "It's a significant swing vote that could go many different ways …
