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Simon Dumenco / AdAge:
A BLOGGER IS JUST A WRITER WITH A COOLER NAME — Why Blogging vs. Traditional Media Has Been Oversold — I've been thinking of what I am — about what any media person in the digital age is — since having coffee last week with a 30-something newspaper editor who bemoaned the fact …
Jeremy Wright / Ensight:
The Mystery Blog — I was intending to wait to announce the mystery blog until the seller posted his view of the process, the whys and the wherefores and such. However, the time we'd agreed for him to post to has come and gone, and he's in bed dead sleeping.
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Duncan Riley / The Blog Herald:Twas The Blog Herald that's been on the market
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Renai LeMay / CNET News.com:
Firefox for Intel Macs planned for March — The Mozilla Foundation has set a March launch date for a version of its Firefox Web browser that will run on Apple Computer's Intel version of Mac OS X. — "We are targeting the official release of Firefox for Intel Mac OS X in late March …
Mark Russinovich / Mark's Sysinternals Blog:
Rootkits In Commercial Software — By now many of you have heard that Symantec released a security advisory last Tuesday that reported its use of rootkit-like cloaking technology in its SystemWorks product. The Symantec use of rootkit-like cloaking raises the question of what exactly defines a …
Quinn Norton / Wired News:
Anonymity on a Disc — WASHINGTON, D.C. — To many privacy geeks, it's the holy grail — a totally anonymous and secure computer so easy to use you can hand it to your grandmother and send her off on her own to the local Starbucks. — That was the guiding principle for the members …
BBC:
Mac users 'too smug' over security — Technology commentator Bill Thompson is worried about the lack of herd immunity among his fellow Apple Mac users. — The first known computer virus, the Elk Cloner, is 25 years old. Since its appearance we have seen hundreds of thousands …
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Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Watch Blog:
Google Base & The v7ndotcom elursrebmem SEO Contest — Damn — just when I thought I could ignore the latest SEO contest, it does something interesting. First, Greg Rockstar Boser notes that while Yahoo already has picked up 130 matches for v7ndotcom elursrebmem (and I see 296 myself, right now), Google comes in with zilch.
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Daisy Whitney / tvweek.com:
NBC: iPod Boosts Prime Time — 'The Office' Scores Demo High Following Top Download Ranking on iTunes — NBC's "The Office" delivered a 5.1-its highest ratings ever-last Thursday among adults 18 to 49, a bump the network credits in large part to the show's popularity as an iPod download.
Gary Price / Search Engine Watch Blog:
No Page Reload Required: See Sponsored Ads in Various Categories on Yahoo Movies Pages — Is Yahoo testing something new with sponsored links on some pages found on Yahoo Movies? — Allow me to explain. — Sponsored links on Yahoo Movie pages for thousands of films and actors are found …
John Markoff / New York Times:
Sharing Broadband to Increase Speed — SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 15 - Two West Coast start-up companies have built new wireless technologies that take to heart Benjamin Franklin's exhortation to hang together rather than hang separately. — Both Mushroom Networks, which was started at the University …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
The Gather.com Issue — "News 2.0″ sites are launching faster than I can keep up. Gather is the most recent. — Gather is a social news site that allows user to submit content and generate a revenue share based on activity on the site. They boast $7m in venture funding over two rounds.
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Matt Richtel / New York Times:
Marketers Want to Appear on Small Screen — Forget the 30-second spot on a 50-inch high-definition TV. How about a three-second message on the tiniest of screens? — Television-style advertising is coming to a mobile phone near you. It is part of a broader push by marketers to create …
Bink / Bink.nu:
MIcrosoft delays Windows XP Service Pack 3 from 2006 to 2007! — 2 weeks ago I posted my annual list of what we can expect for this year. WinXP SP3 was also mentioned in the list, I put it in summer 2006 as I had several sources for this, including this official list.
revolutionreport.com:
Frequently Asked Nintendo Revolution Questions — Welcome to Revolution Report's Revolution FAQ. — Our staff at Revolution Report receives about 30 mailbag questions per week, countless message board questions per day and ungodly hours of communication with our readers.
Scott Karp / Publishing 2.0:
Media Should Start With Conversation, Then Synthesis — The problem with the current debate over Old Media vs. New Media is that most people see it in binary terms — either Old Media dies and the web becomes a completely open marketplace of commoditized content (as Jeff Jarvis and countless others …
