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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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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.
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 …
Scobleizer / Microsoft Geek Blogger:   Bloggers up in arms about Forbes cover
BL Ochman / B.L. Ochman's weblog:
Forbes Story Bashes Bloggers As Lynch Mobs
Discussion: Gary Stein
Joe Wilcox / Microsoft Monitor:
MICROSOFT FISCAL 2006 Q1 RESULTS  —  This afternoon, Microsoft announced results for its fiscal 2006 first quarter results.  While the company's seven business units will continue to report separate P&Ls, the units are now contained within three larger business groups.
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Gavin Clarke / channelregister.co.uk:
Wall Street puzzled by Microsoft's performance
Discussion: Windows Vista Weblog
Bloomberg:   Microsoft Net Rises 24%; Sales Forecast Falls Short (Update4)
Brendan Sinclair / GameSpot:
MS meets financials, Xbox division lags
Discussion: Joystiq
jkOnTheRun:
Eric and Tracy go paperless  —  Eric Mack and Tracy Hooten have presented themselves with a Tablet PC challenge by going paperless for the next 10 weeks.  Tracy is a student and Eric is a technologist so no doubt they will each find different challenges in front of them with this attempt to get everything digital.
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Eric Mack On-Line:
I'm ready for my next Tablet PC Challenge  —  Inspired by this post, I've decided to challenge myself to see if I can effectively use my Tablet PC as a total replacement for pen, paper, and books.  Next week, I start an intense 8-week business law course and I've decided to use this course as the subject of my next Tablet PC challenge.
Matt Marshall / siliconvalley.com:
Tagging the news you want to use  —  DIGG SHOVELS UP STORIES BY RANK  —  Digg, a new San Francisco Internet start-up, seeks to rank news items by letting people choose which stories they like anywhere on the Web.  —  And it just received $2.8 million in venture capital from some big-name investors …
Herald Sun:
Crazy idea!  The high-rise mobile  —  MILLIONAIRE mobile phone salesman "Crazy" John Ilhan has unveiled his radical design for a $40 million tower in the shape of a phone.  —  The distinctive 120m highrise in City Rd, Southbank, would house his multi-million-dollar communications empire and 166 luxury apartments.
Discussion: Gizmodo, Engadget and The Gadget Blog
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.
Stephen Shankland / CNET News.com:
Blue Gene/L tops its own supercomputer record  —  Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and IBM unveiled the Blue Gene/L supercomputer Thursday and announced it's broken its own record again for the world's fastest supercomputer.  —  The 65,536-processor machine can sustain 280.6 trillion …
Discussion: TechSpot and Engadget
Tom Adelstein / O'Reilly Network:
Why do people switch to Linux?  —  During the last month, we conducted a survey of readers who use Linux.  We asked them why they switched to Linux and received a plethora of answers.  Surprisingly, anti-Microsoft sentiment had less to do with the choice than one might imagine.
Marc Orchant / The Tablet PCs Weblog:
Just ordered a new Tablet PC!  —  I'm really excited.  I just ordered a new Gateway s7200 Tablet PC.  I've visited the local Best Buy a couple of times this past week to put a similar model slightly less powerful and integrated graphics) through its paces including some OneNote work, web surfing and Gmail, and some media playing.
Discussion: jkOnTheRun and Rob Bushway
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.
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John Battelle / John Battelle's Searchblog:   YAHOO ADDS TOOL TO SOCIAL SEARCH
Regina Lynn / Wired News:
Coming Soon: Online Sex Games  —  "I'm on a perpetual hunt for a sex game targeting women," says Brenda Brathwaite, a game industry veteran and featured speaker at this week's Women's Game Conference in Austin, Texas.  —  She's not the only one.  —  One of the questions I get asked most frequently is …
Discussion: Kotaku
Robert Booth / Guardian:
Mobile phones open new front in war on music piracy  —  Children with the latest mobile phones are posing a new threat to sales of recorded music by illegally sharing songs, according to music industry leaders.  —  The spread of mobile phones capable of carrying hundreds of easily transferable songs …
Discussion: The Mobile Music Blog
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 …
Discussion: BeyondVC and Paul Kedrosky's …

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Jason Shellen / The Official Google Reader Blog:
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