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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 …
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TDavid / Things That:
MSN responded and complied with DOJ request ... last summer! — MSN General Manager Ken Moss explains what they really provided the DOJ when asked (emphasis mine): … What bothers me most about the MSN response to this whole DOJ situation was brought up by one of the anon's in their post …
Electronic Frontier Foundation:
New Senate Broadcast Flag Bill Would Freeze Fair Use — Draft legislation making the rounds in the U.S. Senate gives us a preview of the MPAA and RIAA's next target: your television and radio. (Please write your Senator about this!) — You say you want the power to time-shift and space-shift TV and radio?
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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 …
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Smart Mobs
Om Malik / Om Malik on Broadband:
Living a Cached Life — "You have zero privacy anyway... Get over it." — Scott McNealy , CEO of Sun in 1999 — Scott McNealy, the CEO who should have been a stand-up says a lot of things. Many you can ignore, but when he said the aforementioned words, you knew he was right.
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.
Terry Teachout / Wall Street Journal:
A Hundred Books in Your Pocket — The e-book will transform reading — and writing — NEW YORK — The e-book is back. So are the technophobes who swear it'll never catch on. They were right last time, and they might be right this time, too. Sooner or later, though, they'll be wrong — and when they are, your life will change.
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Stowe / Message:
Who Are The New Media Gatekeepers? — Scott Karp poses a great question (before wandering into a maze of ideas that peter out without a solid conclusion): … In the perfect world, the answer would be that each person should be their own gatekeeper. The reality is that we are unequipped — we do not have the time or resources.
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.
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"
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Mat / aftnn.org:
Mobile Opportunities — Went along to Mobile Opportunities today. Tony Fish of AMF Ventures brought a good crowd of enterprises, entrepreneurs and investors, many part of the Momo community, to the basement auditorium of Simmons & Simmons in the city. The investment part …
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Joris Evers / CNET News.com:
CDT to escalate spyware battle — The Center for Democracy and Technology, a Washington-based public advocacy group, is further escalating its fight against spyware and adware. The group on Monday plans to file two complaints with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission against multiple spyware …
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Sarah Lacy / TechBeat:
Down, Boy! — I've noted a few times that SAP has become the PR pit bull when it comes to Oracle. Last December, when Oracle announced its quarterly earnings, SAP sent out a press release within minutes of the company's conference call refuting claims of customer wins, market share gains and the like.
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
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 …
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 …
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