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Ian Brown / Blogzilla:
DRM-a-go-go  —  I had a fun old time this morning speaking at a Digital Rights Management conference in London.  My own attempt to introduce some reality on the security limits of DRM was generally well-received, aside from a couple of myopic content industry representatives.
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Cory Doctorow / Boing Boing:
MSFT: Our DRM licensing is there to eliminate hobbyists and little guys
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Ben King / The Register:
Google at work on desktop Linux  —  Search engine giant preps own version of Ubuntu  —  Google is preparing its own distribution of Linux for the desktop, in a possible bid to take on Microsoft in its core business - desktop software.  —  A version of the increasingly popular Ubuntu desktop …
Discussion: Download Squad and rev2.org
Inside AdSense Team / Inside AdSense:
Blogtimize!  —  Blogging is near and dear to our hearts here at Inside AdSense.  We know you want to get the most out of those posts - but how do you do it?  —  1. Choose the right ad formats  —  Because the typical blog layout uses a narrow section for posts, the medium rectangle fits nicely at the end of each post.
Cory Doctorow / Boing Boing:
StarForce threatens to sue me for criticizing its products  —  A company that was criticized on Boing Boing has threatened to sue me, and claims to have sworn out a complaint against me with the FBI.  —  Yesterday, I posted about StarForce, a harmful technology used by game companies to restrict their customers' freedom.
kottke.org:
Blogs versus the NY Times in Google  —  In 2002, Dave Winer of Scripting News and Martin Nisenholtz of the New York Times made a Long Bet about the authority of weblogs versus that of NY Times in Google: … I decided to see how well each side is doing by checking the results for the top news stories of 2005.
USA Today:
Papers take a leap forward, opening up to new ideas  —  NEW YORK — If you made a list of today's great media innovators you'd probably fill it with people whose dazzling ideas are shaping the Internet, television and even radio.  —  Not newspapers, though.  The industry is famously risk-averse.
Coolz0r:
Super RSS Tools  —  Today I had to dig a little deeper into the world of RSS.  I'm preparing a Live.com environment for a potential customer and I needed tools to convert dynamic HTML pages (search queries) into RSS feeds so I could add them into Microsoft's feed collector.
Josh McHugh / Wired News:
Would You Buy a Used Dotcom from this Man?  —  As a corporate lawyer, Allen Morgan wore a suit every day for 20 years.  But since joining the Mayfield Fund, he's gotten used to the more casual uniform of the venture capitalist - Levi's, plaid shirt, company-logo fleece vest.
Marguerite Reardon / CNET News.com:
EarthLink offers new VoIP service  —  Broadband provider EarthLink has begun selling a new Internet phone service that's designed to be easy to use and require no additional hardware.  —  The company has partnered with broadband access wholesaler Covad Communications to offer the voice …
Discussion: broadband and VoIP Lowdown
Om Malik / Om Malik on Broadband:
How To Sync Yahoo PIM, iCal & Address Book?  —  If you are like me, then syncing your iCal and Address Book with Yahoo's web-based PIM has been virtually impossible.  Given Yahoo's long standing apathy for MacOS had sent many of us into the warm, comfortable embrace of Apple's own .Mac service.
Discussion: The Apple Blog
Katharine Q. Seelye / New York Times:
Time Inc. to Cut 100 More Jobs as It Focuses on Web Business  —  Time Inc., after eliminating 105 management jobs just before Christmas, is moving to cut about 100 more, including up to 10 at its flagship, Time magazine.  —  Both editorial and business-side employees are being cut at several of the company's domestic magazines.
Mark Anderson / Wired News:
Roll Your Own Ringtone  —  CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts — Cell-phone customers have spent more than $4 billion on ringtones taken primarily from popular hits.  Now MIT's Media Lab hopes to unleash some new creativity into this market with a ringtone composition tool to the masses for free.
Adam / Adam Fields (weblog):
Flickr pictures, web beacons, and a modest proposal  —  As I noted in the comments of the previous post, I don't have ads on the site, but I do have flickr pictures directly linked from my flickr account.  —  It is conceivable to me that flickr pictures could qualify as "web beacons" …
Mr. Pratt / ▣ SEOBUZZBOX.COM:
Mike Grehan Interview  —  Mike Grehan is most definitely a colorful and well respected SEM expert.  To me he is just one of those guys who always makes perfect sense so naturally I like to read all his stuff.  Instead of filling this interview with fluff let's get right to the good stuff …

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