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Dave Winer / Scripting News:
Why I will stop blogging — I can do it, folks, I have already, in some sense, stopped one of my rivers, and soon, probably before the end of 2006, I will put this site in mothballs, in archive mode, and go on to other things, Murphy-willing of course. — It's been a long time coming.
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Garett Rogers / Googling Google:
Google lands on Mars — Tonight I noticed that mars.google.com now has a CNAME record that points to www.google.com. This usually means that something is about to happen with that subdomain — with the exception of calendar.google.com of course. So I started digging and you will never guess …
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Blogger / Googlist:
Google Galaxy Starts with Mars — Google is one step closer to announcing a Google Galaxy (Universe/Solar System) product. Today Google introduced Google Mars, its Maps-like exploration of the surface of Mars. (This is likely an extension of Keyhole's Mars exploration that was quietly forgotten once Google acquired the company.)
Thomas Hawk / Thomas Hawk's Digital Connection:
Yahoo! Shoppers Beware, PriceRitePhoto Strikes Back — Want to know how long it takes a sleazy online retailer to get relisted with Yahoo! Shopping after being delisted for abusing their customers? Give or take a little about three months. — Back on November 29th I wrote …
Jeff Sandquist:
Microsoft 10 is now on the air — My team and I have been working night and day for some time to launch an all new community called 10. Our dream is to create a place for those people who want to use technology to change the world. — Every weekday at 10:00 am (PST) …
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Ryan Tomayko / @lesscode.org:
Gosling Didn't Get The Memo — I've been blissfully neglecting this site for months with the assumption that a large part of our goal was completed. After watching good people like Martin LaMonica and Jon Udell balance out the mainstream tech press with coverage of lessish tools and languages …
Jeff / The Jeff Pulver Blog:
Pulver/Evslin Petition to the FCC on Post-Disaster Communications: — Today, Tom Evslin and I filed a Petition with the US Federal Communications Commission in an effort to mitigate the effects of long-term telephone outages in the event of natural disasters or other public crises.
The Daily Om:
Silicon Alley vs Silicon Alley — Jason Calacanis is getting spanked for thumping his chest in public and talking trash. Not sure if he is right or wrong, though I think he is finally getting the well deserved media attention, for building Weblogs Inc. Back in Bubble 1. days he was quite …
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Watch Blog:
Google Partnering With Publishers To Sell Online Books — Google gave me the heads-up late Friday that a new feature allowing publishers to sell online versions of their books through Google Book Search was about to go live. Nothing was yet online when we talked, but that's since changed.
Stephen Bryant / publish.com:
Blogging for Dollars Brings Unexpected Responsibilities — Reporter's Notebook: Professional bloggers Jason Kottke and Heather Armstrong took the stage at SXSW to discuss what happens when you start making a living from your hobby. — The story of blogging has largely been written.
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Pete Cashmore / Mashable*:
MySpace Messenger on the Way — The cool kids are all talking about the impending release of MySpace Messenger (screenshots below). The story appeared on Digg yesterday, and the commenters are impatiently trying to make it to work. No official launch has been mentioned yet. — So is this a good idea?
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AMCP Tech Blog, The Kelsey Group Blog, Search Engine Journal, GigaOM, Corante Web Hub and Susan Mernit's Blog
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Tagworld Hits 1 million members, announces $7.5 million from Draper Fisher Jurvetson — Tagworld, the next generation Myspace competitor, is showing that there is plenty of room for growth in the crowded teen/young adult home page market (previous TechCrunch posts on Tagworld are here).
isc.sans.org:
McAfee 4715 DAT False Positive Deletion Reports Follow-up — Last Updated: 2006-03-13 03:52:21 UTC by Patrick Nolan (Version: 3(click to highlight changes)) — Friday we started receiving reports of file deletion problems from admins using McAfee AV, scans that were using the 4715 DAT's issued Friday …
Matt Richtel / New York Times:
Hungry Media Companies Find a Meager Menu of Web Sites to Buy — Media companies are still hungry. Is there much left for them to consume that they'll find satisfying? — NBC Universal's $600 million acquisition of iVillage, an early Internet company catering to women …
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michael parekh on IT, PaidContent.org, Perceptric Forum, John Cook's Venture Blog and Blogspotting
Eric Bangeman / Ars Technica:
Federal government supports "Buy It Now" patent — In the world of patent disputes, the recently settled tiff between patent holding company NTP and Research In Motion, makers of the popular BlackBerry has dominated the scene for the past year or so. At the same time that battle was being played out …
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ZDNet:
Microsoft pauses work on Adobe rival — Microsoft has temporarily halted development work on some aspects of its upcoming professional graphics application as it tries to bring companion tools and its next-generation Windows Vista operating system to market.
Michael Kanellos / CNET News.com:
Compaq founder pushes for academic library online — CARLSBAD, Calif.—Ever wonder where Compaq founder Rod Canion is? He's with Questia Media, which wants to bring a university-class library to a high school near you. — The Houston-based company is gathering academic and textbook publishers …
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