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Jumping the snark — Ryan King, one of the organizers of BarCamp, has posted MashupCamp jumped the shark — a slam on David Berlind and Mashup Camp that I can't let slide. — Ryan: … Ryan then proceeds to knock David for not following or crediting the successful BarCamp forumula.
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Live by the Snark, die by the Snark — I wrote about how I thought MashupCamp was kinda lame and exploited the meme of 'the Camps' awhile ago, but its recently gotten some push-back from Doc Searls which I'd like to rebut by quoting liberally and interspersing my comments...
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Can't We Just Love Each Other? — Nicholas Carr has a quasi-funny/sad about a spat between the organizers of BarCamp and MashupCamp. As someone in the midst of organizing a Web 2.0/blog conference on May 8/9 in Toronto - along with Mathew Ingram, Rob Hyndman, Michael Mcderment and Stuart Macdonald …

Doc Talks Smack About Barcamp — ...brace yourself for the community backlash... Why? — Because Barcamp is not, never was and never will be an "equivalent of a kegger", whatever the hell that means. — Because there were more people at the original Barcamp (Palo Alto) …
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AT&T Nears Deal for BellSouth — AT&T IS NEAR a deal to acquire BellSouth for roughly $65 billion, in an agreement that would give AT&T sole control over Cingular, the nation's largest wireless operator. A deal could be announced as early as Monday. — 9:49 a.m. — • Tale of the Tape: How the companies compare
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AT&T Is Said to Be Near Deal for BellSouth — AT&T Corp. is planning to acquire BellSouth Corp., according to several people familiar with the negotiations who asked not to be identified because of the sensitivity of the talks. — A merger of two of the four remaining Bell phone companies …
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Hey Neighbor, Stop Piggybacking on My Wireless — For a while, the wireless Internet connection Christine and Randy Brodeur installed last year seemed perfect. They were able to sit in their sunny Los Angeles backyard working on their laptop computers. — But they soon began noticing …

Bloglogic and the Litmus Test for Link Love — Doc Searls adds his perspective to Dave Wallace's post about second opinion, affirmative traction, connections and flow. — Dave did a little analysis of his traffic after being mentioned in one of Mathew Ingram's second opinion posts …
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How Axosoft Sold $1.3 Million Worth of Software in 3 Days — This is a story about understandings and ideas. Sometimes, when they collide great things can happen. — Recently, I had a little idea, and once it was set into motion a big drama began to unfold. Over the next three days, amazing things were going to happen.

Unleashing 10-User Conferencing in Skype 2.0 for Windows — Recently, Skype and Intel have announced a deal that would limit Skype's functionality on all but specific Intel processors. Currently, Skype 2.0 offers 10-way conference calls only on Intel's latest dual-core CPUs, while other chips …
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The Normalization of Blogging — Robert and I were the wrap-up speakers yesterday at the New Communications Forum. We did pretty well, but one point I tried to make had not fully formed in my head and I didn't articulate it as well as I would have liked. I've had a day to think about it.

The Outfit Demo Coming — THQ says the demo is ready to go, but... March 3, 2006 - Following the pre-game releases of Fight Night Round 3 and Full Auto, THQ is prepping to release a playable demo of its upcoming military combat game, The Outfit. — The fully downloadable demo …

Settlement Reached in BlackBerry Dispute — NEW YORK - The maker of the BlackBerry e-mail device said Friday it settled its long-running patent dispute with a small Virginia-based firm, averting a possible court-ordered shutdown of the BlackBerry system and a disruption of wireless service for millions of users.

Sony's iPod Assault Is No Threat To Apple — The new digital Walkman is a step in the right direction, but its features fall short — It might have been a coincidence, but it still must have hurt. Sony Corp. (SNE ) last fall booked a Tokyo nightclub for the unveiling of its latest Walkman music players.

Google GDrive is not a rumor — An interesting article by Greg Lindon points to some slide comments from Google's Analyst Day Power Point presentation last week. The presentation was removed from Google's website but the text is still available in Greg's post.