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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
John Murrell / Good Morning Silicon Valley:
OK, short straw gets to tell Bill he can't wear the black turtleneck at the launch  —  Has Microsoft hired some defectors from Apple's marketing department?  How else to explain the weekend's blogosphere buzzstorm over the possible unveiling this week of a tablety computing and entertainment gadget called Origami?
Michael Gartenberg:
Unfolding Origami - it might not un-wrap the way you think it will  —  It's the middle of the night here in Tel Aviv and I've just spent a jet lagged day running around Tel Aviv and Jerusalem.  I've got to wrap up a big presentation for tomorrow but before I log off a little more on the unfolding of Project Origami.
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).
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 …
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.
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 …
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.
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.
Marshall Kirkpatrick / The Social Software Weblog:
Web 2.0 defined well in Jupiter Research podcast  —  The question of how to define Web2.0 is a common one, and this weekend I was able to listen to a conversation that covered all the based quitewell.  The folks at Jupiter Research have been podcasting for some time now and their most recent release …
Discussion: Swarming Media and analystblog
Tony Walsh / Clickable Culture:
U2 Unwittingly Gives 'Second Life' Concert  —  Ilya Vedrashko's In-Game Advertising and Advergames blog reports on a fan-created U2 concert staged in the virtual world of Second Life.  This elaborate presentation involved avatar (virtual people) look-alikes of the band, streaming the band's music …
Discussion: MAKE: Blog and reBang weblog
Jaanus / Skype Blogs:
Skype-a-celeb: talk to Penelope Cruz, Matthew McConaughey and others on Skype  —  Do you want to talk to Penelope Cruz, Matthew McConaughey and others?  Not read about them in some magazine, but actually talk to them live and unmediated?  You can now.  If you can outbid others for the privilege, that is.
Discussion: The Blog 50
Nik Cubrilovic / TechCrunch:
Exclusive Look At Google Payments  —  Google announced last week on their blog that they will begin to facilitate payments on Google Base in the near future.  The blog post from Google pointed out that Google are already accepting payments on their video service as well as when users purchase software …
Chrisboggs / Search Engine Roundtable:
The Search Landscape  —  Moderated by Gord Hotchkiss of Enquiro.  Welcome to "an interesting look at what is happening in the search landscape."  3 people from 3 different companies who's job it is to analyze what people do online.  Large room, about 75% full.  —  James Lamberti - comScore Networks

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