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Dan Gillmor / Dan Gillmor's blog:
Forbes's Trashy Blog Attack — Overall, what a pile of trash from Forbes Magazine, which uses its cover to go on the attack against bloggers in the new issue. You have to register to read the stories. Go ahead if you must; it's worth reading to see how a normally solid business magazine …
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Daniel Lyons / Forbes:
Attack of the Blogs — Web logs are the prized platform of an online lynch mob spouting liberty but spewing lies, libel and invective. Their potent allies in this pursuit include Google and Yahoo. — Gregory Halpern knows how to hype. Shares of his publicly held company …
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Paul Kedrosky's …
Steve Rubel / Micro Persuasion:
Forbes Cover Story Blows It, Calling Bloggers Lynch Mobs — Earlier tonight I was on a four-minute segment on CNBC that largely focused on Forbes' new cover story - Attack of the Blogs. Registration is required or the bugmenot login/password "forbesdontbug" worked for me.
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Weblogs Work, Scobleizer, The Blog Herald, InsideGoogle, Church of the Customer Blog and rexblog.com
Xeni Jardin / Boing Boing:
HOWTO punish bloggers, a tutorial for businesses from Forbes — Won't someone please think of the corporations? The teaser copy for Daniel Lyons' hyper-inflammatory, breathlessly trollbaitin' Forbes cover story "Attack of the Blogs" reads: … This piece of trash begins: … It's a global blogspiracy!
Ryan Singel / Wired News:
U.S. Cell Phone Tracking Clipped — Federal law enforcement attempts to use cell phones as tracking devices were rebuked twice this month by lower court judges, who say the government cannot get real time tracking information on citizens without showing probable cause.
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Yahoo! Search blog:
From My Web to Your Website - A Button Share! — Over at SearchEngineWatch, Danny Sullivan has been asking why we haven't offered a "Save to My Web" button. Well here it is! — Save to My Web is a simple, sociable button you can add to any and every page of your blog or website.
Ina Fried / CNET News.com:
Need a job? Don't use a Mac — update When it comes to some big-name companies, Macintosh users may have a tough time landing a job. — It's not just that the business world is dominated by Windows-based computers. It's because, at a number of large companies, Mac users literally can't apply.
Jeff Nolan / Venture Chronicles:
Time for Change — I've been struggling with what to write in this post for weeks so I'm just going to come out and say it, I am leaving the venture capital business. — I have been a VC for eight years... 8 long years that flew by in a blink. We did 73 direct equity deals …
Wired News:
Web of Fear: Net Surfers Cut Back — As identity theft has grown, so has fear of being victimized through high-tech means. A new study finds some computer users are cutting back on time spent surfing the internet. Some have also stopped buying altogether on the web.
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Donna's SecurityFlash
microsoft.com:
Microsoft Reports First-Quarter Earnings — Microsoft delivers double-digit operating income growth, announces plans to accelerate share repurchase. — Income Statements — Balance Sheets — Cash Flows Statements — Segment Revenue/Operating Income(Loss) — SEC Filings
Will Sturgeon / silicon.com:
Government & Law — Exclusive: The cost of joining Get Safe Online — But does £150,000 membership fee help or hinder the initiative? — A Word document sent in error to silicon.com has revealed that the UK's National Hi-Tech Crime Unit (NHTCU) has specifically been consulting …
Russ / Russell Beattie Notebook:
Where's The Ambition? — All these startups in my feeds lately are killing me! There are tons of them, but none seem to be doing anything particularly special. I mean, it's nice that there's a sort of rebirth of small startups, but there's absolutely no sort of wow factor that I've seen.
Su Doku / thisisgoingtobebig.typepad.com:
I AM A CAVE MAN. — We'll vote on Coat Idol next week... I have too much to do for now. — But, to update, I became a new kind of "cave man". — I caved on the clothing thing. Why? — Because we were arguing about something really stupid... clothing.
Scott M. Fulton, III / tgdaily.com:
Microsoft denies preparations to support OpenDoc in Office 12 — Redmond (Washington) - In a statement to TG Daily, a Microsoft spokesperson has officially denied that the company is making plans to support OpenDocument Format (ODF), the XML-based file structure developed for Microsoft Office's open-source competitor, OpenOffice.org.
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OSNews.com
