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Workbench:
RSS Means Never Being Board — John Palfrey: … Dave Winer: … As a member of the RSS Advisory Board for the past 21 months and the current chair, I am surprised to learn that the organization doesn't exist. — I joined the board at Winer's invitation in May 2004, not long before he resigned.
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Tom Krazit / ZDNet:
DMCA axes sites discussing Mac OS for PCs … Apple Computer appears to have invoked the Digital Millenium Copyright Act to stop the dissemination of methods allowing Mac OS X to run on chips from Intel and Advanced Micro Devices. — The chatter at the OSx86 Project was stifled Friday …
Discussion:
Voidstar, Rational rants, Engadget, The Unofficial Apple Weblog, Alice Hill's Real Tech News and Boing Boing
Mike / Techdirt:
NBC Lawyers Cut Off SNL's Best Promotional Vehicle In Years — from the brilliant-business-strategy dept. — For years, we've tried to remind people that lawyers understand the law, not business, and why management needs to learn that just because you can do something legally, it doesn't mean you should.
Tris Hussey / A View from the Isle:
The blog is dead, long live the blog! Anti-blog hype is overblown — Oh boy this is going to stir things up. Daniel Gross of Slate writes in Twilight of the Blogs that business blogs are on the downslide. I can't agree less with him. Sure, I'm biased, I just wrote about my new career via blogging …
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Dan Gillmor / Center for Citizen Media:
The Blog Bubble? … It's obvious that there's been way more hype lately than is healthy. But the entry of Big Media into the blogging space is not a sign of impending doom. — If Time Warner and other big-media companies start a bunch of sucky blogs, they won't get anywhere.
Carl Howe / The Blackfriars Blog:
Looking beyond the twilight of the blogs — [Graphic courtesy of Yahoo's Bradley Horowitz at Elatable.com] — Slate magazine today is running an article titled "Twilight of the Blogs", arguing that all the signs are in place to say that blogging is topping out from a business point of view.
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Mark Evans
Daniel Terdiman / CNET News.com:
Software pioneer Bricklin tackles wikis — update If ever someone was going to merge two technologies as disparate as wikis and spreadsheets, VisiCalc creator Dan Bricklin might well be the person for the job. — In 1979, Bricklin released VisiCalc, the first spreadsheet for personal computers.
Wired News:
Here Comes a Google for Coders — For most people, open source is a synonym for free software. But for programmers, open source is about sharing code, building on the work of others and not having to reinvent the wheel — at least, that's the ideal. In practice, code reuse remains very low …
Jayvee / Cell phone 9:
BenQ-Siemens Pandora (EF51) — I had a chance to grab a sneak peek into the upcoming line of phones from BenQ-Siemens. Codenamed Pandora (in Asia), this phone is a prototype version of the new company's music phone. I'm quite pleased with the way the new company is churning out sensible phones with attractive designs.
Zoli Erdos / Zoli's Blog:
Web 2.0 in the Enterprise - Blogging the TIE Event — The Web 2.0 in the Enterprise panel discussion hosted by TIE was exciting. In fact it wasn't really a panel discussion, rather a most interactive group event. Jeff Clavier as moderator with Charlene Li, Ross Mayfield …
pluralsight.com:
Pragmatics — Someone recently asked me about how to handle an internal product debate around REST vs. SOAP. — In hopes I never have to address this debate again, here's a record of what I told them. — The following design decisions are orthogonal, even though people often conflate two or more of them:
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Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life
Brian Krebs / Washington Post:
Invasion of the Computer Snatchers — If you think your computer is safe, think again — In the six hours between crashing into bed and rolling out of it, the 21-year-old hacker has broken into nearly 2,000 personal computers around the globe. He slept while software he wrote scoured …
Mathew / mathewingram.com/work:
Nick Carr is a smart guy - but he's wrong — Nicholas Carr is a former editor at the Harvard Business Review. He's written books, he's written for the New York Times, he's spoken at MIT and he's won awards (see Nick's comment below for clarification). I have done none of these things (okay, I won an award once in Grade 6).
Greg Sterling / The Kelsey Group Blog:
Broadband: Growing, but Slowing? — Here's a roundup of data by aggregator eMarketer on broadband adoption — now pegged at 61 percent of US households according to Ipsos. eMarketer summarizes that price is the major barrier to continued penetration in the US market:
Nicole Wong / Official Google Blog:
Response to the DoJ motion — In August, Google was served with a subpoena from the U. S. Department of Justice demanding disclosure of two full months' worth of search queries that Google received from its users, as well as all the URLs in Google's index. We objected to the subpoena …
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loose wire
stopscum.com:
Dale Begg-Smith & AdsCPM: A Spyware low life Criminal Distributor wins an Olympic Gold Medal for Australia — You can run but you can't hide. If you fail to answer reporters questions in a candid and detailed manner, lots of folks will poke around and discover your checkered past.
Ted Dziuba / Epsilon-Delta:
An Analysis of Democratically Ordered Link Sites — With so much content floating around the web these days, the powers that be have come up with a way to separate the "spam" from the "ham" by using readers as human classifiers. Web sites like Digg and Reddit allow a user to cast votes for links that other users publish.
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ben barren
David Walker / eHomeUpgrade:
Smartvue S2 IP Video Surveillance with Auto Configuration — Prowlers and burglars have a new enemy, and the name is not Jack Bauer (although he will always be their enemy). It's Smartvue; and if the baddies have any sense to them, they'll stay away from any palace protected …
