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Saul Hansell / New York Times:
Google Wants to Dominate Madison Avenue, Too — IN many ways, Larry Page and Sergey Brin seem an unlikely pair to lead an advertising revolution. As Stanford graduate students sketching out the idea that became Google, the two software engineers sniffed in an academic paper that …
Anne Eisenberg / New York Times:
From Your Living Room to the World, via Podcast — WHEN Kim Maffin learned that she had multiple sclerosis about a year ago, she decided to use a new technology to reach out to others coping with the disease. She started making podcasts - recorded audio programs that people can download …
Richard Siklos / New York Times:
What We Have Here Is a Failure to Communicate — JOHN F. STREET, the mayor of Philadelphia, perhaps put it best at the announcement of a new corporate headquarters for the Comcast Corporation early this year: "As Microsoft is to Seattle and Coca-Cola is to Atlanta, Comcast is a symbol of Philadelphia's growth and innovation."
Jodi Kantor / New York Times:
The Extra-Large, Ultra-Small Medium — ON Monday morning, news networks were breathlessly covering two entirely different hurricanes. The first blew off the screen in all its fury, droplets speeding by, stop signs spinning, palm fronds flying and strands of soaked hair clinging to correspondents' foreheads.
Discussion:
IP Democracy
Bill / Wander, Think, Repeat:
I know very little about Google or Googlebase (but I'm writing this anyway) — A tidal wave of speculation washes over the internet every time Google releases, comes close to releasing, or accidentally exposes, a project. — Case in point. There is, apparently, something in the works called GoogleBase.
Andy Oram / O'Reilly Network:
Control Freaks: Modding and the Clash with Law — Modding is childish and eccentric and deeply serious. People are investing major chunks of disposable income and (astonishingly, in a flat-out work-obsessed society where no one has time) untold hours in modding.
Tom's Hardware Guide:
The $500 Gaming Machine — The Budget Gaming PC Challenge — If you are like this writer, your passion for the latest and greatest technology is bigger than your wallet. Let's face it, most of us can afford to fork over the occasional $50 for the latest game title …
Eric Mack On-Line:
Paperless challenge: here's the map — Several readers have asked me to share my planning map for my Paperless Challenge. This afternoon, I created a MindManager map and dumped all of my current thoughts and ideas into it. — Here's the map. — Note, you will have to allow the Active-X control to see the MindManager viewer.
Shelleyp / Burningbird:
The Testosterone Meme — After checking out the tech.memeorandum.com web site for a few weeks now I've made several observations: — First, most of the stories covered are about business, rather than technology. The companies in focus may be technical, but the stories are about commerce.
Evan Blass / Engadget:
GPS PRO Dog collar with SMS — We've seen a whole lot of crap that people can hang on their dogs, but rarely do we see a genuinely useful product like the GPS PRO Dog collar from Environmental Studies that helps your pet without humiliating her. Simply strap the collar around your beloved's neck …
Discussion:
Gear Live
Phil Wainewright / ZDNet:
How many times over should you pay for software? — Wouldn't it be nice for software developers if they got paid every time someone used their software? Believe it or not, that's how some old-school software developers interpret the notion of software-as-a-service.
Rafat / PaidContent.org:
@ ONA: The Bunker State of Mind : I don't really spend much time with other journalists, and today was probably the longest I have since I started this site. Over the last three years, there were times that I thought I missed the office environment, the camaraderie, and other things that come with it.
Dave Taylor / The Intuitive Life Business Blog:
Thinking about the X41 Tablet PC one month later... I've been evaluating a Lenovo IBM X41 Tablet PC for about a month now and while I still have concerns about performance and occasionally am baffled by the subtleties of Windows for the Tablet PC, I'm finding that it integrates nicely into my workflow.
