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Joel Spolsky / joelonsoftware.com:
The Perils of JavaSchools — Lazy kids. — Whatever happened to hard work? — A sure sign of my descent into senility is bitchin' and moanin' about "kids these days," and how they won't or can't do anything hard any more. — When I was a kid, I learned to program on punched cards.
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Scobleizer / Microsoft Geek Blogger:Joel says teaching Java is bad for CS students
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Lisa Vaas / eWEEK.com:
Critical Impact: Windows Metafile Flaw a 'Zero-Day Exploit' — Updated: Code for what Secunia is deeming an "extremely critical flaw" in Windows Metafile Format files is being exploited on fully patched systems. Researchers are currently tracking thousands of sites distributing the exploit code.
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Matt Cutts, Security Fix, Neowin.net, Incremental Blogger, Sunbelt BLOG and Microsoft Watch
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USA Today:
Blogger's aircraft emergency account draws praise, scorn — A California man who was a passenger on the Alaska Airlines flight that lost cabin pressure earlier this week is now being both praised and scorned online for taking photographs and posting an account on his blog.
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Charles C. Mann / Wired News:
How Click Fraud Could Swallow the Internet … Stuart Cauff launched a charter-jet service in Miami Beach back in 2002. Being a 21st-century business, JetNetwork advertised on the Internet, especially on search engines. Anyone who Googled, say, "air charter Miami" would be greeted …
Chris Anderson / The Long Tail:
ANNOUNCING THE FORTUNE 500 BUSINESS BLOG INDEX — Short form: In collaboration with Socialtext, we've created a wiki that tracks which of the Fortune 500 is blogging. We found that only 3% of the F500 are doing so. Check it out here. — Long form: Earlier this year I was at a dinner …
W. David Gardner / TechWeb:
Google To Supply Search For Opera's Mobile Browsers — Google will supply the default search function for Opera Software's mobile browsers, the company said Thursday. Opera Software supplies two separate browsers for mobile and wireless devices. — In a statement, Opera said …
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Search Engine Watch Blog
Paul R. La Monica / CNN:
Does Ma Bell want a DISH? — There are rumors that AT&T may bid for EchoStar. Speculation seems premature but a deal makes sense. — NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) - Cable companies and telecoms are at each other's throats. — Cablers Comcast (Research) and Cox are trying to steal customers …
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JD Lasica / New Media Musings:
Top 10 Tech Transformations of 2005 — Everyone else is making Best of 2005 top 10 lists, so here's a quick list of Top 10 ways in which technology has impacted our culture during 2005, in no particular order. I didn't check any other writer's lists, so I probably missed some big ones.
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Hugh Macleod / gapingvoid:
BLOGGING DOUBLED STORMHOEK SALES IN LESS THAN TWELVE MONTHS — [The original brochure that came with the bloggers' Stormhoek bottle.] — A journalist phoned me yesterday about an article she is writing about business blogs for one of the large UK trade mags.
Ashlee Vance / The Register:
Overstock shares fade as CEO warns of 'drugs or dead body' caper — Overstock.com CEO Patrick Byrne continues to break new ground as the head of a publicly traded company. In a single TV interview last week, he shocked investors by revealing that holiday sales were far below expectations …
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Web Publishing Blog
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dannysullivan — Reputation: — As it happens, I was at a friend's house yesterday who has a completely new site, only a month and a half old. He was wondering why another site was outranking him. I'm probably going to go into detail about what I found, but fair to say, there was a sandbox effect for everything I could see.
LeeAnn Prescott / Hitwise US:
SNL Chronicles of Narnia Rap causes YouTube to Overtake Google Video Search — Video Search has continued to take off since my post on the Chinese Students Singing Backstreet Boys. Visits to Google Video search have increased by 48% for the week ending 12/24/05 compared to the week of that post …
San Francisco Chronicle:
Google team sets sights on big screen — Entertainment-savvy co-founders invest in Stanford friend's independent film, shot in S.F. — After becoming Internet moguls, Google Inc. co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page are dipping their toes into Hollywood.
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Search Engine Watch Blog
TDavid / Things That:
Amazon Connect program not an author blog hosting experiment — The new Amazon Connect program aims to increase the connection between author and readers by providing an Amazon hosted 'blog'. Ok, that's what Clickz is calling it, but that doesn't seem to be what Amazon is actually using for a description …
Brian Krebs / Security Fix:
Sony BMG to Settle Class-Action Lawsuit — Sony BMG Music Entertainment has agreed to a settlement that would end a nationwide class-action lawsuit brought against the company over security flaws in anti-piracy software that it shipped on millions of music CDs.
Jeremy Reimer / Ars Technica:
Microsoft predicts Xbox 360 to become profitable by July 2006 — Microsoft has taken the bold step of announcing that the Xbox 360 will become profitable by the start of the company's 2007 financial year, which begins in July 2006. While this is an admirable and ambitious target …
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