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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 …
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.
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.
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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.
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Larry Angell / ilounge.com:iTunes boosts prime time ratings for NBC, ABC
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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 …
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.
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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 …
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:
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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.
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.
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.
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Center for Citizen Media
Nick Farrell / Inquirer:
Paper fires journalist — Borrowed too much from Wikipedia — THE Honolulu Star-Bulletin has fired its entertainment reporter Tim Ryan following an investigation into his stories which seemed to lean a little too heavily on Wikipedia content. — According to editor Frank Bridgewater …
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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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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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