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San Francisco Chronicle:
Yahoo shapes up online video project Reality series pilot to be broadcast on the Internet  —  Terry Semel, the former movie studio chief who now leads Yahoo Inc., is back in show business.  His Web portal has filmed a pilot for a reality series called "Wow House" that will be broadcast online within the next few months.
May Wong / Associated Press:
Annual Gadget Show Is Biggest Ever  —  Do you want to catch "Saturday Night Live" on Sunday, or "Nightline" in the morning?  Would you like to watch the football game in a doctor's waiting room or 2,000 miles from home?  —  Or, what if you're suddenly in the mood for an old episode of "Dragnet" or one of last year's hit films?
Discussion: Om Malik on Broadband
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Damon Darlin / New York Times:
Data, Music, Video: Raising a Curtain on Future Gadgetry  —  The flat-panel televisions will be getting bigger, the MP3 players and cellphones will be getting smaller.  And almost everything will be getting cheaper.  —  But the biggest trend expected at the International Consumer Electronics Show …
Discussion: IP Democracy and New Media Musings
Peter Howe / Boston Globe:
Sides chosen in Logan WiFi battle  —  Wireless and airport lobbies join dispute  —  Logan International Airport officials' ongoing quest to ban airline lounges from offering passengers free WiFi Internet services is angering a growing array of powerful Capitol Hill lobbying groups …
Ben Grossman / Broadcasting & Cable:
The New Deal  —  How TV executives will find digital dollars in the coming year  —  Last year, the TV industry discoverd a variety of new ways to deliver their shows - on iPods, on video phones, even online.  This year, they vow to figure out how to make money off of them.
isc.sans.org:
Handler's Diary  —  WMF FAQ (NEW)  —  Last Updated: 2006-01-02 03:18:03 UTC by Johannes Ullrich (Version: 2(click to highlight changes))  —  [a few users offered translations of this FAQ into various languages.  Obviously, we can not check the translation for accuracy, so use at your own risk.
Eobanb / applexnet.com:
KDE 4 to Support Apple Dashboard Widgets  —  The start of something bigger?  —  It's official; Zack Rusin, a lead developer of KDE, has stated in his journal that the upcoming KDE 4 will be able to run and display Dashboard widgets much in the same way that Mac OS X 10.4 can.  He writes:
Discussion: TechSpot and Download Squad
Jo Twist / BBC:
The year of the digital citizen  —  2005 was arguably the year citizens really started to do it for themselves.  Raising mobiles aloft, they did not just talk and text, they snapped, shared and reported the world around them.  —  Twelve months ago, it was clear the mass consumer …
Katharine Q. Seelye / New York Times:
Answering Back to the News Media, Using the Internet  —  Never pick a fight with someone who buys ink by the barrel, or so goes the old saw.  For decades, the famous and the infamous alike largely followed this advice.  Even when subjects of news stories felt they had been misunderstood or badly treated …
Discussion: Blogspotting
Bob Tedeschi / New York Times:
Those Born to Shop Can Now Use Cellphones  —  Calling all retailers: 2006 may finally be the year that consumers start buying goods with their cellphones.  —  With people already spending billions on ring tones, wallpaper and games for their phones, analysts and retail executives say they believe …
David Newberger / David Newberger's Blog:
10 Questions with Christopher (Rageboy) Locke on Blogging  —  For the first 10 Questions Segment of the New Year I thought I would start it off with a bang.  Today I am pleased to share with you the interview I did with Christoper (Rageboy) Locke.  This interview is extremely insightful and is a must read for all.
Ars Technica:
Windows Vista drops support for old DVD drives  —  Raymond Chen has let slip that Windows Vista will be somewhat choosey with regards to which DVD drives it supports.  Chen, who has worked on Windows development since joining Microsoft in 1992 and specializes in backwards compatibility issues …
f-secure.com:
It's not a bug, it's a feature  —  What exactly is going wrong with the WMF vulnerability?  —  Turns out this is not really a bug, it's just bad design.  Design from another era.  —  When Windows Metafiles were designed in late 1980s, a feature was included that allowed the image files to contain actual code.
Ron / revo-europe.com:
News: Nintendo's Market Value Goes Up  —  Research reveals that Nintendo's Market Value has increased since February 2005.  —  DFC Intelligence have released their latest piece of research on the game industry, revealing how all game companies have fared from February to December.
Discussion: Things That and DS Fanboy
Evan Schaeffer / Evan Schaeffer's Legal Underground:
Blawg Review #38  —  Not that you're going to feel any real sympathy for your Blawg Review host, but I want you to know that I faced a difficult task: finding great law-related blog posts to highlight from a week in which many weblogs weren't posting at all.  For several days, I was stumped.
Russ / Russell Beattie Notebook:
Going Back Downstairs  —  Okay, imagine you go to this huge party over at this big house.  As soon as your arrive you can tell it's just one of those parties.  There's people everywhere - packed in the living room, out by the pool, clustered in the kitchen, everywhere.
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Scobleizer / Microsoft Geek Blogger:
Hell's weather report: cold and colder. Beattie switches to Windows
Discussion: Get Real

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