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Ben Grossman / Broadcasting & Cable:
Zucker on Anchors and iPods — NBC Universal last week became next in line to make its TV content available via Apple's iTunes, which follows an earlier deal it had made with DirecTV to supply programming for video-on-demand. And while NBC U Television Group President Jeff Zucker is busy trying …
Gabriela Hasbun / Newsweek:
Hotwiring Your Search Engine — Google a topic, and the results are based on popularity, right? Wrong. Inside the shadowy world of 'SEOs.' — Linked In: Fishkin with his mom and SEO partner Gillian — By By Brad Stone — Dec. 19, 2005 issue - Three years ago …
David Pogue / New York Times:
A camera that has it all? Well, almost — At a recent technology conference, an executive from an electronics company was waxing snarky about her rivals. — "And then there's Sony," she said in a conversation cluster between seminars. "Their approach is to bring to market every product they dream up and see what sticks."
Robert Mackey / New York Times:
TV Stardom on $20 a Day — AMANDA CONGDON is a big star on really small screens - like the 4½- inch window she appears in on computer monitors every weekday morning or the 2½ inches she has to work with on the new video iPod. Ms. Congdon, you see, is the anchor of a daily …
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Phillip Pearson / Second p0st:
Architecture of the Wordpress Structured Blogging plugin: is this forking? — For the last couple of months, we (along with XML expert Kimbro Staken and Movable Type consultant Chad Everett) have been working on extending the Structured Blogging plugin for Wordpress to publish a bunch …
Om Malik on Broadband:
Et Tu Steve Case? — In a recent episode of Rome, an HBO series where Caesar is brutally murdered by the Senate. The killing blow coming from Brutus, the man whose life Julius Caesar forgave. The gruesome scene was running through my head.... Steve Case sold Time Warner a bill of goods …
Lunch over IP:
ESE (Evil Search Engine) movies: a scenario — John Battelle (whose blog is a must-read) has posted a scenario worth pondering: … Notice the keyword "forever" ("leave, forever, on third party servers"). In a subsequent reply to a reader's comment, Battelle added:
yubanet.com:
Clarkson University Engineer Outwits High-Tech Fingerprint Fraud — Eyeballs, a severed hand, or fingers carried in ziplock bags. Back alley eye replacement surgery. These are scenarios used in recent blockbuster movies like Steven Spielberg's "Minority Report" and "Tomorrow Never Dies" …
Craig Pringle / pringle.net.nz:
Evaluating multiple tablets — Rob Bushway recently blogged about taking four tablet PCs into a customer and gauging their reaction. Interestingly they preferred the slates in the group. … Interestingly I too have been taking multiple device into a customer recently.
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Wikinews:
Interview with Jimbo Wales — While this wasn't Interview with the Vampire, getting a live interview with Jimmy Wales of the Wikimedia Foundation is requiring more work and planning than ever. Four contributors to four different Wikinews language editions (with Swedish, Netherlands …
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Feld Thoughts:
The Signal to Noise Ratio Feels Out of Whack To Me — I monitor around 400 blogs and try to stay on top of them daily (I use FeedDemon and NewsGator Online and have developed an awesome personal algorithm for getting through all the items quickly.) I also use a handful of services …
Nick / Rough Type:
Sun and the data center meltdown — Sun Microsystems is a funny company. It jumped directly from hyperactive adolescence to midlife crisis, complete with ponytail. Ever since the dot-com crash decimated its free-spending customer base, the company's been on a quest to find itself - and give a jolt to its flat-lining stock price.
Jlewin / Podcasting News:
PodOmatic Adds Video Podcasting Support — PodOmatic, a free service that lets podcasters find, create and distribute podcasts, has added video podcasting support. — Video podcasters can now upload and host video content for free via the PodOmatic network.
Katharine Q. Seelye / New York Times:
A Little Sleuthing Unmasks Writer of Wikipedia Prank — It started as a joke and ended up as a shot heard round the Internet, with the joker losing his job and Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia, suffering a blow to its credibility. — A man in Nashville has admitted that …
