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Sarah McBride / Wall Street Journal:
Audible's Podcast Tool Tallies Listeners  —  Audible Inc. is introducing a tool to help advertisers measure how many people are listening to podcasts, the Internet-based audio shows that are downloaded to listeners' computers.  —  That means advertisers will be able to get a handle on how many people are really listening to shows.
Discussion: PaidContent.org
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The Doc Searls Weblog:
Yo, Libraries: say No to DRM  —  My sister pointed me to this notice about downloadable audiobooks from the Central North Carolina Regional Library.  Here it is: … That last item is the chocolate-coated spider.  No iPods?  "Copyright compliance" problems? wtf?  So I looked around.
Mitch Ratcliffe / RatcliffeBlog:
More on the future of podcasting  —  You will forgive me recalling that Bill Gates, richest guy in the world, once said that no one would need more than 640 Kb of RAM on a personal computer.  As I read some of the responses to the Audible Wordcast announcements, I am repeatedly reminded of the folly of Gates' view.
Discussion: Scripting News and The RSS Blog
Om Malik / The Next Generation Internet:
Audible's unPodcast effort?  —  Audible, the company known for offering downloadable books is now getting into the tracking business.  A report in Wall Street Journal says that the company will charge 3 cents a show to track information such as how many people download the podcast …
Discussion: Scripting News
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David A. Vise / Washington Post:
What Lurks in Its Soul?  —  The soul of the Google machine is a passion for disruptive innovation.  —  Powered by brilliant engineers, mathematicians and technological visionaries, Google ferociously pushes the limits of everything it undertakes.  The company's DNA emanates from its youthful founders …
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 …
J. Alex Halderman / Freedom to Tinker:
Sony Shipping Spyware from SunnComm, Too  —  Now that virus writers have started exploiting the rootkit built into Sony-BMG albums that utilize First4Internet's XCP DRM (as I warned they would last week), Sony has at last agreed to temporarily stop shipping CDs containing the defective software:
Discussion: MacInTouch and Boing Boing
itu.int:
To be released mid-November 2005  —  Check out the flyer  —  ITU Internet Reports 2005: The Internet of Things  —  is the seventh in the series of "ITU Internet Reports" originally launched in 1997 by the International Telecommunication Union.  For previous titles in the series …
Discussion: Smart Mobs
Gamers Reports:
BestBuy Store Xbox360 Unit Allocation Numbers  —  This is the list of core and premium systems being shipped to BestBuy stores nationwide...the list is categorized by store #...to find your Bestbuy store number visit www.bestbuy.com and go to store locator.  Pro means a premium pack and core means, well you can figure that out.
Discussion: Things That
Jonathan Collins / rfidjournal.com:
Paris Transit to Test Phones as Fare Cards  —  The city's public transportation authority will carry out a trial enabling Paris subway and bus riders to use RFID-enabled cell phones as contactless transit cards.  —  Nov. 11, 2005—French wireless telecom company Bouygues Telecom …
Blogmalware / Anti-Malware Engineering Team:
Sony DRM Rootkit  —  I've been getting a lot of questions in the last week about Microsoft's position on the Sony DRM and rootkit discussions, so I thought I'd share a little info on what we're doing here.  We are concerned about any malware and its impact on our customers' machines.
Brian Handwerk / National Geographic:
Antigravity Machine Patent Draws Physicists' Ire  —  A perpetual-motion machine may defy the laws of physics, but an Indiana inventor recently succeeded in having one patented.  —  On November 1 Boris Volfson of Huntington, Indiana, received U.S. Patent 6,960,975 for his design of an antigravity space vehicle.
Francis C. Assisi / indolink.com:
Shashank Priya Invents Wind-Powered Wi-Fi  —  12 November 2005 — According to Nature, the world's pre-eminent scientific magazine, Assistant Professor Shashank Priya of the Materials Science and Engineering Program at the University of Texas at Arlington is successfully using pocket-sized mini windmills …

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