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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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Scott Karp / Publishing 2.0:
Blogs Are Institutions, Just Like Old Media Companies — So Dave Winer wants to stop blogging, and Mike Arrington says, NO, you can't, because Scripting News belongs to "us," the readers. Mike is half right — Dave does "own" Scripting News, but the blog has become an institution, like any other Old Media company.
Discussion:
Swarming Media
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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Scobleizer / Microsoft Geek Blogger:
More hype than an Origami? Yeah, that's On10.net — On10.net is on Digg already. Hot diggity. — I'd hype up this sucker, but it's not gonna need my help. Can you name why? I have at least five reasons. — 1) Talent. Onscreen you'll see some TechTV types. On, no, Molly, that's no objectification.
Astrid Wendlandt / Reuters:
French plan would open iTunes to other devices — PARIS (Reuters) - France is pushing through a law that would force Apple Computer Inc to open its iTunes online music store and enable consumers to download songs onto devices other than the computer maker's popular iPod player.
Charlie Demerjian / Inquirer:
Tyan brings supercomputing to the desktop — CeBIT 2006 Four blades in a stylish box — EVERY SO OFTEN there comes a genre-bending product, and Tyan has one of those on its stand at CeBIT this year. It is called the Typhoon PSC or Person Super Computer, and is aimed at the scientific and HPC set.
Seth Godin / Seth's Blog:
The noisy tragedy of the blog commons — Blogs are different than most other forms of media in one key respect: they stretch. — TV and radio confront the reality that there are only 24 hours in a day. They can't put on more content, because there's no down time.
Discussion:
Publishing 2.0, Rex Hammock's Weblog, Bubblegeneration Strategy Lab and Internet Recruiting
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.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
TrustedID - This is Important — IDFreeze yesterday (and announed funding by Draper Fisher Jurveston) to help protect consumers from identity theft. I met with co-founder Scott Mitic today about his company. — Identity theft is a really big and really expensive problem.
Scobleizer / Microsoft Geek Blogger:
20 minutes in Houston — OK, so, I have 20 minutes in Houston. How many cool things can I post in 20 minutes? Let's see. — Phillip Torrone has a cool how to on how to build a simple iPod Amp. — Tim Bray notices the feed icons site where you can get those new feed icons for your RSS …
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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 about three months. — Back on November 29th I wrote an article entitled PriceRitePhoto …
Loren / Incremental Blogger:
UMPC speculation continues — Even though UMPC devices were announced at CeBit a week back, there's still a lot of speculation going on about them. Why? As Dennis Rice points out, without any shipping products, complete specs, and more info on these products we're having to do a lot of guessing.
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.)
Discussion:
Google Blogoscoped, SearchViews, Somewhat Frank, The Business Innovation … and Official Google Blog
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Alex Mindlin / New York Times:
Buyers Search Online, but Not by Brand — People searching for products online are a perfect target for advertisers, because they are essentially declaring their desire to make a purchase. Recognizing this, many companies pay search engines to show ads to users who have searched for their brand names.
Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life:
ETech 2006 Trip Report: Feeds as a Platform: More Data, Less Work — These are my notes from the session Feeds as a Platform: More Data, Less Work by Niall Kennedy, Brent Simmons and Jane Kim. — Niall Kennedy started of by talking about implementations of subscriptions and syndication feeds …
Kevin C. Tofel / Kevin 2.0:
Vista looks Glassy on my M205 Tablet PC — What can I say? I've been seduced by the "clear" side and I spent a few hours trying to get the new Vista build to run Glass on my Toshiba Portege M205 Tablet PC. Did it work? You betcha! Will it work in the long term? No way!
Discussion:
Life On the Wicked Stage
Quinn Norton / Wired News:
Software Helps Develop Hunches — SAN DIEGO — It's the paradox of human-computer interaction. Computers can process huge numbers quickly and without bias, but programming them to detect faces, trees and puppies is incredibly difficult. Determining beautiful, pristine or cute is impossible.
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 …
