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3:20 AM ET, March 27, 2006

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Scobleizer / Microsoft Geek Blogger:
The irritant of the non-credible journalists  —  Last week they went after Microsoft.  —  This week they are going after Apple.  —  You know, I'm seeing a trend here.  Some bloggers don't know who is a credible journalist and who isn't.  Hint: anything the Register writes is NOT credible.
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Dominic Jones / Investor Relations Blog:
Microsoft blogger Scoble wants to censor unfriendly blogosphere  —  Blogger Robert Scoble, whose employer Microsoft Corp. is under fire for repeatedly delaying the launch of its new operating system Vista, has proposed that bloggers stop linking to negative articles by what he calls "non-credible journalists."
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Trigger Happy?  —  Looks like we all went trigger happy this week - in the blogging sense of course.  —  Earlier this past week, there was word that nearly 60% of the Microsoft Vista was going to be rewritten, a move that caused a big furor.  Now, if you stopped to think for even a few seconds …
Discussion: 0xDECAFBAD
Michael / michael parekh on IT:   ON APPLE, VISTA AND PROVOCATIVE "NEWS" HEADLINES
Andrew Orlowski / The Register:   Jobs dumps Apple stock
J. Angelo Racoma / Forever Geek:
Steve Jobs divests 45% of personal Apple shares
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Newsweek:
Who's Building the Next Web?  —  Got a lot of free time?  You're going to need it to enjoy the fruits of Silicon Valley's latest labors: start-ups that want you to spend even more of your life online.  —  April 3, 2006 issue - Deciphering the exact meaning of the phrase Web 2.0 is a popular parlor game in Silicon Valley.
Edward Tenner / New York Times:
Searching for Dummies  —  Plainsboro, N.J.  —  TALK of decline was old news in academia even in 1898, when traditionalists blasted Harvard for ending its Greek entrance requirement.  But today there's a new twist in the story: Are search engines making today's students dumber?
Paolo Valdemarin Weblog:
4 blog birthday  —  4 years don't sound like a lot of time from here: it's about 12% of my life.  Then I start reading what I was writing 4 years ago.  —  Back then I was still a bubble 1.0 CEO with a couple of VC on my board still hoping to go public.  So many things have changed since …
Discussion: Read/WriteWeb
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Phillip Pearson / Second p0st:   Four years blogging
William C. Taylor / New York Times:
Here's an Idea: Let Everyone Have Ideas  —  LIKE many top executives, James R. Lavoie and Joseph M. Marino keep a close eye on the stock market.  But the two men, co-founders of Rite-Solutions, a software company that builds advanced — and highly classified — command-and-control systems for the Navy …
Discussion: Disruptive Thoughts and Slashdot
Alec / Alec Saunders .LOG:
Streamcast Claims Ownership of Core Skype Technologies  —  Andy has just posted the full text of the Streamcast / Skype RICO lawsuit.  It's kind of a grubby fax.  Who knows where he got it from?  He would only tell me "sources".  Nonetheless, the suit alleges that:
Discussion: GigaOM, TechBeat and VoIP Watch
maxconsole.net:
First Working NES Emulator for Xbox 360 via MCE  —  Xexter has found a way to run a NES emulator on the XboX 360 using MCE.  At the moment there is no sound but it runs at almost full speed.  —  Yes there is an Xbox 360 on the right.
Discussion: Xbox 360 Fanboy and Kotaku
Who da'Punk / Mini-Microsoft:
Nix the Mix06!  Back to Accountability and Pondering Attention to Bad News about Microsoft.  —  Well, hasn't this been a hum-dinger-ringer of a past week?  That Vista 2007 post is up above 430 comments so far.  —  (This is one of those navel-gazing posts, so be forewarned …
James McGovern / Enterprise Architecture:
Ruby and the Struggle of the Perspectives...  Lot of folks have chimed in on a previous posting on Ruby and responded with passion and supplied their own perspectives but zero facts.  One of the reasons I blog is that in my travels, I tend to talk to lots of folks and hear interesting perspectives in which I share here.
Discussion: Smalltalk Tidbits …
Hubert B. Herring / New York Times:
With Broadband, the PC's Siren Call Is Tough to Resist  —  If you had any lingering doubts that the Internet was rapidly elbowing its way into becoming an outsize presence in the American household, check out new numbers from Nielsen/NetRatings.  —  Just three short years ago …
Discussion: Lost Remote TV Blog
Karl / paradox1x:
Norgs: the unconference: "this is the day that the war ends"  —  I wanted to post this quickly to point you to a few participants and their reports, the day was too big skip without getting at least this up.  I will have more later, about the day, the format (hey - the unconference format works!), and thoughts for the future.
Discussion: Bob Stepno's … and BuzzMachine
Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life:
Hi-REST/Lo-REST Pushback  —  In his post Going Down To The Crossroads... Don Box uses the terms Lo-REST and Hi-REST to describe classes of services on the Web.  Specifically he writes … Although I agree that there is a difference in theory versus practice in how various services that claim …
Discussion: ongoing
Dave Zatz / Zatz Not Funny:
TiVo Series 2 Hardware Refresh  —  Several shopping sites have just posted a listing for the mysterious new Series 2 device (TCD649180) that features dual tuner capabilities, Ethernet, and 180HR recording capacity at a list price of $349.  No word on ship dates, however it seems the NTSC OTA tuner …
Discussion: Gizmodo, TiVoBlog and Engadget
 
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Dave Winer / Scripting News:
You can view the 60-percent-Vista-rewrite story as something …
 

 
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