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Vauhini Vara / Wall Street Journal:
Digging Out the News  —  A Web Site Invites Readers to Be Editors,  —  But the Approach Presents Some Risks  —  What would happen if a Web site's readers — instead of editors — could decide which stories should be published?  —  Technology journalist Kevin Rose decided to find out.
Discussion: PaidContent.org and Lloyd@work
Kevin Yank / SitePoint Blogs:
Apple "photocasting" Mac only, uses invalid RSS  —  (via Dave Winer) Apple's newly-released iPhoto 6 does an admirable job of making it easy for its users to publish feeds of their photos from their desktop.  When Steve Jobs announced the product, he cited its use of "industry standard" RSS technology to make this posssible.
Kevin Newcomb / ClickZ:
SEMs Welcome Shorter Yahoo! Ads  —  This week, Yahoo! Search Marketing will begin truncating its sponsored search text ads after the first 70 characters.  Many search marketers see the move as a positive one.  —  While some search marketers may miss Yahoo!'s longer text ads …
Ina Fried / CNET News.com:
Microsoft aims to topple Lotus' Domino  —  Aiming to woo users of Lotus Notes, Microsoft is releasing software designed to help companies switch to its own line of collaboration tools.  —  The collection of free software provides tools to help move data over to Microsoft's platform from IBM's Lotus software.
Macrumors / youtube.com:
User Details //  —  User Name: macrumors subscribe to macrumors's videos  —  Send Me a Private Message!  —  Share Details // Help?  —  Video URL (Permalink):  —  Embeddable Player:  —  (Put this video on your website.  Works on Friendster, eBay, Blogger, MySpace!)  —  Sites linking to this video:
Doug Mohney / Inquirer:
Apple develops Microsoft Vista of opportunity  —  It's not the iPod, stupid  —  PUNDITS and analysts, having seen the latest Steve Jobs magic show, are frothing all over themselves by proclaiming that sales of iPods will equal more marketshare of Macs, especially the new, improved Intel-a-toshes.
Discussion: Random Bytes
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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 …
Hugh Macleod / gapingvoid:
TOP TEN REASONS WHY NOBODY READS YOUR BLOG  —  TOP TEN REASONS WHY NOBODY READS YOUR BLOG:  —  1. You're not a good-looking female who likes posting naked pictures of herself.  —  Pretty damn obvious, if you ask me.  [Not safe for work.  You've been warned.]  —  2. There's nothing in it for them.
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Susan Getgood / Marketing Roadmaps:
A-list bloggers  —  Okay, I admit, this A-list thing is like a scab …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Yahoo Acquires SearchFox Assets  —  Reliable sources are reporting that SearchFox, which announced that it will be shutting down as of January 25, 2006, has sold its assets to Yahoo.  At least some of the employees have moved over to Yahoo as well.  —  There is no indication of price.
Cosmik / n3rfed:
AHN'QIRAJ TO OPEN IN N SECONDS.  SERVER TO CRASH IN N+1 SECONDS.  —  As the Gate Race (*badoom* *tish*) of 2005/6 comes to an end, attention now turns the server of Medivh who require only a few more bandaids in order to gain access to the omg epix.  —  Recent days have seen a flood …
Discussion: Boing Boing, WOW Insider and Wonderland
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.
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Larry Angell / ilounge.com:
iTunes boosts prime time ratings for NBC, ABC
Discussion: Micro Persuasion
Nathan Kirsch / legitreviews.com:
Getting to Know One of the Corsair Founders:  —  For the first interview of the month we bring you one of co-founders of Corsair Memory — John Beekley.  We have known John for nearly five years now and just recently interviewed him to see his perspectives on Corsair and the memory industry in general.
Discussion: TechSpot
Mark Baard / Wired News:
New GPL Is Free at Last  —  CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts — Richard Stallman, author of the most radical and durable license for free-software developers, is updating the GNU Public License for the first time since 1991.  —  Stallman released a draft of GPL Version 3 at a conference at MIT here Monday, Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
BBC:
Fears raised over digital rights  —  A UK consumer watchdog has called for new laws to protect users' rights to use digital music and movies.  —  The National Consumer Council (NCC) said anti-piracy efforts were eroding established rights to digital media.
Ian Bogost / watercoolergames.org:
Persuasive Games launches Disaffected!  —  I'm happy to announce that my studio Persuasive Games has released Disaffected!, a videogame parody of the Kinko's copy store. puts the player in the role employees forced to service customers under the particular incompetences common to a Kinko's store.
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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Om Malik / Om Malik on Broadband:
Gather Them Eyeballs!
Discussion: Mister Snitch! and Darwinian Web

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Nick Farrell / Inquirer:
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John Boudreau / Mercury News:
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Discussion: Lifehacker and Library clips
Ellie Gibson / eurogamer.net:
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Discussion: Engadget
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