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Leslie Walker / Washington Post:
Forgot What You Searched For?  Google Didn't  —  The Justice Department may have done us all a big favor by issuing subpoenas to Internet search engines to find out what people are researching online.  —  Not because that data could help shield children from online porn …
Discussion: IP Democracy
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Dan Sabbagh / Times of London:
Google in court over refusal to let US examine search requests  —  GOOGLE users will face US government monitoring if the American authorities win a court case aimed at getting the website to hand over copies of every search conducted.  —  The world's most popular search engine …
Discussion: Smart Mobs
Google Blogoscoped:
In Google vs Government, It's Not About Child Porn  —  It's interesting to see how many news sources mistakenly report that the current government vs Google case is about child porn.  It's not.  If anything, it's about children looking at pornography - i.e. webmasters not ensuring their sites …
Declan McCullagh / CNET News.com:
FAQ: What does the Google subpoena mean?  —  FAQ Preparing to defend a controversial Internet pornography law in court, the Justice Department has demanded search logs from Google, Microsoft, Yahoo and America Online.  —  The department asked the search giants to hand over millions …
Discussion: Darwinian Web
Scott Karp / Publishing 2.0:
How to Fix RSS  —  RSS sucks.  I'm with Paul Kedrosky.  Let the technodweebospehere rain fire and brimstone.  I could add to Paul's rant, but instead here's a Really Simple three-step Solution (of course, the real first step is admitting that you have a problem):  —  1. Call it "subscribing"
Business Week:
AOL: MySpace Invader  —  Launching a social network off its instant messenger  —  Did you think MySpace (NWS ) could blow up this big, this fast without anyone else noticing?  Time Warner's (TWX ) AOL is readying its bid for the MySpace.com, um, space.  —  It won't be a site per se.
Gregg Keizer / PC World:
Busting the Biggest PC Myths  —  We expose the bad advice that wastes your time and money.  —  From the August 2004 issue of PC World magazine  —  « Previous Page 1 2 3 4 5 Next »  —  Magnets zap your data.  —  For venerable floppies, this statement holds true.
Discussion: TechBlog and Newsome.Org
Google Blogoscoped:
Google News Adds Most Popular, Recommended  —  Google News has two new sections to the left; Recommended, and Most Popular.  It's interesting to see Google work on improving their news homepage, even though its lack of ads make it a site with no direct revenues.  —  Most Popular
Discussion: InsideGoogle and Geeking with Greg
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Steve Rubel / Micro Persuasion:
Google News Adds Recommended, Popular Stories
Burtonator / Kevin Burton's Feed Blog:
RSS came from the publishing industry?  —  Dave's a smart guy so I'm sure I'm not following here: … If wouldn't have eventually come unless it was pushed.  —  If the MSM was left to their own accord there would never be feeds.  There would be forced registration, robots.txt which blocks everything …
Diego / d2r: diego's weblog:
nothing like a trashing to get the day started  —  Picture this: it's a Friday, early in the morning.  The office is quiet, there's a smell of fresh coffee in the air.  You're still a bit sleepy, and as you're booting up your brain for the day ahead you end up reading a blog post where the writer …
Ryan Paul / Ars Technica:
Surveys show open source popularity on the rise in industry  —  A survey conducted by IT consulting firm Optaros and InformationWeek magazine shows that American companies and government organizations are saving millions of dollars with open source software.
Cory Doctorow / Boing Boing:
Broadcast Flag is back, this time it covers iPods and PSPs, too  —  Update: Here's EFF's action-center item for writing to your Senator about this.  —  The Senate has introduced the "Digital Content Protection Act of 2006," a bill that will create "Broadcast Flags" for all digital radio and television …
Discussion: Smart Mobs
Ina Fried / CNET News.com:
Microsoft looks beyond Vista, sees Vienna  —  update Although Microsoft is hard at work trying to ship Windows Vista this year, the company is beginning to set its sights on the next horizon, Vienna.  —  Vienna, once labeled Blackcomb, is the new code name for the successor to Vista.
microsoft.com:
Digital Signatures for Kernel Modules on x64-based Systems Running Windows Vista  —  For Windows Vista and later versions of the Windows family of operating systems, kernel-mode software must have a digital signature to load on x64-based computer systems.  —  This paper describes how to manage …
Discussion: Bink.nu
Seth Finkelstein / Infothought:
Google, Subpoena, and Privacy  —  [I wrote this as a contribution to the discussion on Dave Farber's mailing list, but I might as well shout to the wind here, as it may not make the moderation cut.  The best documentation I've seen is Gary Price's summary at Blog.SearchEngineWatch.com, and their coverage]

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