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Mitch Ratcliffe / Rational rants:
Network Neutrality: The PR blitz is underway  —  The network neutrality war is just starting to heat up.  A campaign to make new fees for existing Internet services palatable is underway.  At stake is the ability of the Internet to scale from the edges or a surrender and return …
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The Doc Searls Weblog:
Required reading: Kevin Marks' Internet regeneration.  —  Kevin and his sources — Douglas Adams, Susan Crawford, Suw Charman (from this audio) and Danah Boyd — come at the Net this time from a generational angle.  —  Read the whole thing, which concludes, … An additional note.
Discussion: Weblogsky
Graeme Wearden / CNET News.com:
Distributed computing cracks Enigma code  —  More than 60 years after the end of World War II, a distributed computing project has managed to crack a previously uncracked message that was encrypted using the Enigma machine.  —  The M4 Project began in early January, as an attempt …
Discussion: Engadget, brainwagon and Smart Mobs
John Borland / CNET News.com:
Yahoo claims start-up stole trade secrets  —  Yahoo has filed a lawsuit against wireless content company MForma, charging the San Francisco-based company and a group of ex-Yahoo employees there with theft of trade secrets.  —  According to the lawsuit, which was filed Monday …
Discussion: Techdirt and SiliconBeat
Ina Fried / CNET News.com:
Details unfolding on Microsoft's 'Origami'  —  As rumors unfurl about a new gadget upcoming from Microsoft, the company's Origami Project is starting to take shape as a very small tablet computer, one perhaps affordable enough to appeal to mainstream consumers.
Greg Sandoval / CNET News.com:
Feds: Google's privacy concerns unfounded  —  The U.S. Justice Department has denied requesting anything from Google that could threaten the privacy of the search engine's users, as the company recently contended.  —  And by trying to block the government's efforts to review a week's worth of search terms …
Ryan Block / Engadget:
WWJD 3 - Results!  —  So, what would Steve Jobs do?  We asked last week, and we took your answers in the form of over three hundred and fifty photoshopped mockups.  We had acouple of Newtons, a ton of tablets, and a huge swarm of video iPods — and a ton of miscellaneous stuff that bothamused …
Scobleizer / Microsoft Geek Blogger:
New York, New York!  (Danny wants better RSS in his SPOT watch)  —  I'm writing to you from a bus heading toward Manhattan.  I love my Verizon card.  It's like having wifi EVERYWHERE!  —  Anyway, I'm up for a midnight snack tonight.  Anyone game?  Call my cell phone at 425-205-1921.
Discussion: Matt Cutts and SYNTAGMA
Laura M. Holson / New York Times:
News Corporation to Tap Not Just Its Film Vaults, but Art From the Street  —  Twelve executives from the News Corporation gathered recently in a makeshift office in Barcelona to plot their newest entertainment venture.  But they did not come to discuss television dramas, film or newspapers …
Stephan Spencer / Stephan Spencer's Scatterings:
Blog SEO Tip #6: Make "sticky" posts  —  A "sticky" post is one that always appears at the top regardless of the date/time posted.  The "sticky" feature is available in some blog systems by default (e.g. Blogger.com) and in others through the use of a plugin (e.g. the Adhesive plugin for WordPress).
Computerworld:
Accidental e-mail congratulates 7,000 on admission to UC Berkeley law school  —  Lesson learned: Always be careful when hitting the 'send' button  —  FEBRUARY 24, 2006 (COMPUTERWORLD) - Edward Tom, director of admissions at the University of California, Berkeley, law school, was training a new office worker last week when it happened.
Bob Tedeschi / New York Times:
Pick Up the Phone, Your Search Term Is Calling  —  GOOGLE is going 20th century.  —  The company, whose empire is based on its ability to connect people and businesses through computers, is now connecting them the old-fashioned way — over the phone.  —  Starting late last year …
David Downs / Wired News:
Dragnet, Reinvented … Ding!  Ding!  Ding!  Ding!  I'm riding in the backseat of an LAPD cruiser, and it sounds like the inside of a giant slot machine.  As officer Christine Labriola speeds down the side streets of LA's notorious Rampart district, a Dell laptop mounted on the Crown Victoria's dashboard chimes intermittently.
Tim Doyle / Forbes:
No Go For TV-To-Go?  —  The creators of Slingbox, a nifty gadget that lets consumers watch their home TV on any computer screen with an Internet connection, have another clever idea: Let consumers watch their home TV on handheld devices.  —  One catch, though: In order for Sling Media's mobile service …
Discussion: MobHappy
Splasho:
The Superbrowser  —  Yesterday I decided to undertake an experiment.  My favourite browser, Firefox, allows its users to add extensions.  Currently 1148 extensions are available at Mozilla update.  I decided to install 100 of the most popular extensions at the same time, trying to avoid those that duplicated others functionality.

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