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Scobleizer / Microsoft Geek Blogger:
Getting Naked in Silicon Valley  —  At about 1 a.m. this morning I was sitting on Michael Arrington's couch talking with the few people who were left over.  Topic of conversation: "is this a bubble?"  —  Yes.  Next question.  —  What kind of bubble is it?  —  Not an economic one.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Thank You For Coming to TechCrunch 5  —  The Naked Conversations TechCrunch Party is now officially over (except for Stowe Boyd and Jason Roberts who are passed out on my couches).  The pictures are here and here (tag: "techcrunch5″).  —  Thank you to everyone who came.
Jeremiah Owyang / Web Strategy by Jeremiah:
PhotoBlog: Naked Convo Party at TechCrunch House  —  Went to the techcrunch party for Naked Convos book launch.  — Atherton is very dark at night.  — Met up with Alexa from Omidyar, she had questions about business blogging, so I bought her a book.  — Saw James from feedster, he introduced me to some of his colleagues.
Brian Oberkirch / Like It Matters:
Naked Conversations Interview/Launch Party  —  Holy Techcrush, were there some folks at Mike Arrington's house last night.  Great launch party for *the* book on business blogging, Naked Conversations by Robert Scoble & Shel Israel.  I did a podcast interview with them this morning (which I'll detail more later).
Jeff Clavier / Jeff Clavier's Software Only:
Stormhoek wines first tasting  —  I finally managed to taste South African Stormhoek's wines last night, at the TechCrunch 5 party.  These wines have been primarily marketed through blogs, with the help of uber-blogger (and master cartoonist) Hugh McLeod, and are just about to enter the US market.
Rafe Needleman / Rafe's Blog:
Carded  —  One indication that Bubble 2.0 is getting out of hand: I was walking down the dark Atherton street to Michael Arrington's house for the latest TechCrunch meetup/party, and a guy approached me from across the street.  Before I could tell who it was — practically before I could see him, actually — he said, "Rafe Needleman!
Scott Beale / Laughing Squid:   Naked Conversations TechCrunch Party Photos
Daniel Terdiman / CNET News.com:
PlayStation 3 to be delayed?  —  The North American launch of Sony's much-anticipated PlayStation 3 could be delayed until next year, according to a research report issued by Merrill Lynch.  —  In the report (Click here for PDF), the analyst firm proposed the idea that high costs …
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Ryan Block / Engadget:
PlayStation 3 costs $800, sez Merrill Lynch mob  —  If there are some people out there rightnow who are in the know when it comes to what the hell is going on — we mean really going on — with Sony,it's those investment firms.  But even barring their research analysts getting all kinds …
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Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:
Time to blow up blogs  —  Blogs have already become prisoners of their format.  Time to light some dynamite.  —  The problem isn't the tools, it's the templates.  Blogging tools are merely content management systems without the million-dollar consultants and bills; that's …
saschameinrath.com:
Senators for Community Wireless!  2 Bills Introduced on Friday in the US Senate.  —  Major reform is afoot!  —  Two bills were introduced on Friday that would radically improve unlicensed wireless access.  Both bills would greatly improve the general public's access to the public airwaves.
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Bloggers Blog:
A Blog Without Comments is Still a Blog  —  Russell Beattie recently removed comments from his blog.  Some bloggers (here, here, here, here, here, here and here) think removing comments is not a good idea.  Darren Rowse at ProBlogger also has an interesting post about blogs and comments.
Brian Krebs / Security Fix:
A Interview with 180Solutions' CEO  —  What follows below is some of the material that ultimately got cut from my magazine piece on botnets and spyware for space considerations.  Here's what I wrote about my visit to 180solutions and subsequent interviews with several company executives:
Dave Winer / Dave's Wordpress Blog:
Blogging is part of life  —  I agree with the author of the Slate piece that's getting so much play in the blogosphere, up to a point.  The things that called themselves blogs that came from Denton and Calacanis are professional publications written by paid journalists that use blogging software for content management.
Steve Rubel / Micro Persuasion:
Breememe, aka The Battle of the Memetrackers  —  OK, I am totally hooked on two memetrackers, memeorandum and TailRank.  I can't decide which one is better.  There are three qualities I look for in a good memetracker: diversity of sources, speed and design.
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.
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.
Hugh Macleod / gapingvoid:
JUST DON'T BE SURPRISED WHEN YOU GET LEFT BEHIND  —  As I am doing nothing but make money via blogs, courtesy of English Cut, Stormhoek and some other projects, I find this Slate article, "Twilight of the Blogs- Are they over as a business?" rather humorous, for all the wrong reasons:

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