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Skrenta / Topix.net Weblog:
TOPIX TAGS BLOGS  —  Today we added 15,000 top weblogs to the Topix.net crawling/tagging engine.  Blog posts are being categorized into our 30,000 local feeds as well as our 300,000 subject feeds.  Our search results now include blog results, and posts should show up on our site and search index within 1-3 minutes of being crawled.
Nancy White / Full Circle Online Interaction Blog:
Seattle Mindcamp 1.0  —  After a nice shower and lunch, I wanted to sit down and reflect on the past 48 hours and the first ever Seattle Mind Camp.  From 10 a.m. Saturday through noon today, Sunday, around 140 smart people convened in an empty office building to think, share and play together.
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Todd Bishop / SeattlePI.com Microsoft Blog:
Notes from Mind Camp  —  Microsoft's Alex Barnett at Seattle Mind Camp.  Click image for photo gallery from the event.  —  Hanging out in an empty office building this weekend, I heard about the latest ways to use online news feeds, took an inside look at Amazon.com's newest project …
Discussion: Mind Camp
FireRabbit / Eric's Blog:
Seattle Mind Camp was AWESOME  —  I just got home from Seattle Mind Camp... the event was absolutely awesome.  Everyone who attended is already eager to do it again.  I met a lot of people, learned a lot, and had a lot of fun.  —  Here is a list of everything I learned:  —  Riding a Segway is a lot of fun.
Miss Rogue / HorsePigCow:   Why I Love Seattle Geeks
Saul Hansell / New York Times:
Yahoo Plans to Connect Services With TiVo  —  Yahoo and TiVo plan to announce a deal today that will connect Yahoo's vast online service to TiVo's set-top boxes, which, in addition to recording television programs, have a largely unused capability to connect to the Internet.
Craig Pringle:
My wishlist for the Tablet PC world … My answer to that is twofold:  —  1) The things I want to see in Tablet PC applications right now include (in no particular order):  —  · Native ink support in Acrobat Reader.  And every other application too, of course, but Acrobat Reader is a major one for me.
CNET News.com:
Crowd gathers for Homebrew Computer Club's 30th  —  MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.—If you've never seen a couple hundred bona-fide geeks sitting on the edge of their seats with excitement, you should have been on hand Saturday for an appreciation of the 30th anniversary of the Homebrew Computer Club.
Marc Orchant / The Tablet PCs Weblog:
Gateway Chronicle: First impressions  —  I've now had a couple of days with the new Gateway convertible to build some first impressions and I must say the experience has been overwhelmingly positive.  James and I just finished recording this week's OnTheRun with Tablet PCs podcast …
tbray.org:
Emacs OS Xplosion  —  OS X has been with us for a few years now, and Emacs has been coming along slowly and surely.  We must have hit some sort of a tipping point, and there are a whole lot of people working on the problem; the result is that life is getting better and better for the Emacs tribe.
Tom Evslin / Fractals of Change:
Don't Buy DSL From This Man (If You Can Help It)  —  Ed Whitacre is CEO of SBC, the huge local telecom monopoly which is about to swallow AT&T. The excitement of the progeny buying the former parent may be going to his head.  Business Week published an interview with him here …
Discussion: The Jeff Pulver Blog
Matt Haughey / PVRblog:
TiVo and Yahoo deal in the works?  —  A little birdie dropped me a note that looks legit and sounds trustworthy, but I can't back it up so I'm posting this as a rumor (that I have a strong hunch is real).  —  It looks like there's an impending deal between Yahoo and TiVo.
Laura M. Holson / New York Times:
Can Hollywood Evade the Death Eaters?  —  BY all outward appearances, Warner Brothers Entertainment should be having one of its best years ever.  For the 21st year in a row, it is expected to show a profit, propelled by a string of television hits like "ER," "The O.C." and "Friends," which is a hot seller on DVD.
OnTheRun with Tablet PCs Podcast:
OnTheRun with Tablet PCs #2- Gateway Tablet tour  —  Marc Orchant and I had a lot of fun devoting this show to the Gateway Convertible Notebook (that's Tablet PC to you and me).  Marc just received his Gateway and has some good first impressions of the first widescreen Tablet PC.
Discussion: The Tablet PCs Weblog
feelingtea.com:
Google Video Downloader - Final version  —  How to download?  —  Search videos in Google:  —  Paste the link from Google and get the REAL link now:  —  Some essential Google Video search tips:  — When you search Google Video, the triangle icon on the screen shots indicate those items you can play back for free.

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