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Niall Kennedy / Niall Kennedy's Weblog:
Google spam suite primer — Google provides a full suite of services for the entry-level blog spammer. There are plenty of legitimate uses for all of these Google services, but Google's market-leading position in search creates a spam ecosystem that inflates corporate revenues, index size, and user data.
Christopher Null / Wired News:
No Longer Safe for Work: Blogs — Robert Mason (not his real name) would love to spend a few minutes during lunch catching up on blog posts from around the web, but his company doesn't allow it. The financial institution where Mason works as a vice president has security filters set …
Tania Ralli / New York Times:
Brand Blogs Capture the Attention of Some Companies — Michael Marx loves Barq's root beer. He frequently wears a Barq's T-shirt. He brings Barq's root beer to parties. — So it should come as no surprise that Mr. Marx, 34, of Gilbert, Ariz., keeps a blog dedicated to Barq's.
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Ensight, The Blogging Enterprise, Andrew Lark, The Intuitive Life …, newsmotto! blog and Business Blog Consulting
David / A design and usability blog:
The Google Web Accelerator is back with a vengeance David — Google has reintroduced their Google Web Accelerator with a vengeance. It was evil enough the first time around, but this time it's downright scary. — In version 1., web masters at least had a fighting chance as the GWA identified …
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Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:
Revisionist curmudgeons — Predictably, the backlashers are trying to make their marks and get their linkjuice by arguing that this web/citizens/blog thing just ain't what it's being blown up to be. But so much of the antihype is even sillier than the hype.
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David Hornik / VentureBlog:
Built To Be Bought (Bubble 2.0) — Over the last couple of months I've noticed an increasing sense of unease in the venture community about the trend in Web 2.0 company creation and financing events. While no one is officially willing to peg it Bubble 2.0 for fear of missing the next great opportunity …
Joel Spolsky / Joel on Software:
Something Rotten in AdSense — Google AdSense is a system for web publishers of all sizes, from big newspapers to tiny bloggers. They sign up with Google to place a small box full of text ads on their site. You've probably seen it, but if you haven't, check out Michael's techInterview site for an example.
David Carr / New York Times:
Why You Should Pay to Read This — IN a bedroom in New Jersey, there is a shrine to Entertainment Weekly. A 17-year-old who lives there - that would be my daughter Erin - has the magazine's covers on her wall, and she divines a film's artistic value and business prospects with close readings of the magazine.
Jonny Evans / Wired News:
Divvying Up the Download Payload — LONDON — Ever since the Beatles, British music has rocked the world. — But behind the scenes of Cool Britannia, British musicians and labels are fighting bitterly over money as sales of online music change the economics of the industry.
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BUDGET LAUNCHES BLOG-BASED, SIXTEEN CITY TREASURE HUNT — In a first, Car rental company Budget has launched a blog-based, four-week, 16-city treasure hunt, called UP YOUR BUDGET, which offers a total of $160,000 in prizes. To win, participants must find a sticker which has been placed …
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Blogspotting, gapingvoid, B.L. Ochman's weblog, The Voice of Online …, Micro Persuasion and Weblogs Work
Laurie J. Flynn / New York Times:
Poor Nations Are Littered With Old PC's, Report Says — Waste from electronic devices littered a neighborhood in Nigeria. Computer monitors can contain large amounts of toxic materials. — Much of the used computer equipment sent from the United States to developing countries for use in homes …
Financial Times:
US cable groups still wondering about wireless — Comcast and Time Warner, the big US cable operators, have got into the habit at quarterly results presentations of telling investors about the importance of offering their video, internet and phone customers a fourth service - wireless access.
Cho Jin-seo / KoreaTimes:
Mobile Carriers Asked to Share Internet Platform — The government is pushing three mobile carriers to open up their mobile Internet network to outside firms to help create a wireless network as efficient and popular as the World Wide Web. — The communication committee of the Ministry …
Dennis McCauley / siliconvalley.com:
Personal Technology — Farewell, Xbox, we hardly knew ye. — It's hard to believe that the Xbox is coming to the end of its run. But in less than a month, Microsoft Corp. will launch a successor, the Xbox 360. The current Xbox has been on the scene for just four years …
