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9:00 AM ET, April 3, 2006

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New York Times:
A Letter to Our Readers  —  To Our Readers:  —  Our goal when we set out to redesign The Times Web site more than a year ago was to make experiencing The New York Times online simpler and more useful.  We hope you conclude that we have done that on the new pages appearing for the first time this month.
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Anil Dash / Six Apart:
The New York Times Redesigns, Influenced by Blogs  —  Today, the New York Times launched its site redesign, announced by a prominent editor's note on the homepage.  There's a few lessons for bloggers to learn from the redesign, as well as some evidence that the Times itself has been learning from bloggers.
Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:
Not quite, Times  —  The Times — like many people in power — seems to have trouble grasping the full impact of the internet handing control over to the people.  They have real trouble turning their personal prisms around to look at the world from the bottom up instead of their usual top down.
Discussion: Syndicator Blog and New York Times
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Tim / O'Reilly Radar:
Purpose-Driven Media  —  Business theorists have started to grasp the risks to established businesses of asymmetric competition.  (By analogy to the concept of asymmetric warfare, sometimes companies are competing with rivals whose different business model transforms the nature of the conflict.
Reuters:
France's Alcatel to buy Lucent for $13.4 bln  —  PARIS/PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - French communications-equipment maker Alcatel said on Sunday it would buy smaller U.S. rival Lucent Technologies Inc. for $13.4 billion to gain market heft and broaden its product mix.
Discussion: paidContent.org
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lucent.com:
Alcatel and Lucent Technologies to Merge and Form World's Leading Communication Solutions Provider  — Combined company will have strong financial base and revenues of approximately Euro 21 billion (USD25 billion) based on calendar 2005 results  — Creates new growth opportunities …
Discussion: IP Democracy, GigaOM and Dealbook
web2.wsj2.com:
THE STATE OF WEB 2.0  —  Now that Web 2.0 has had its mainstream media coming-out party in both Newsweek and Slate recently (here and here), I thought I'd take some time this afternoon and try to get a real sense of the prevailing winds.  Before I go further, I would ask all of you with innate dislike …
Saul Hansell / New York Times:
At Last, Movies to Keep Arrive on the Internet  —  Six major studios plan to begin selling movies over the Internet today that buyers can download and keep for watching at any time.  —  Until now, the only downloads the studios have offered have been online rentals, which can be watched …
Newsvine:
Writing On Newsvine  —  If you'd like your own column, we'd like to publish it for you!  Start writing here, and we'll promote your articles throughout the site based on what keywords ("tags") you provide for each article.  —  For instance, if you wrote an article about Bill Clinton and tagged your article …
Dr. Neil / Dr. Neil's Adventures:
Playing with a UMPC  —  This weekend I have been playing with a UMPC ;)  —  It is a pre-production unit that was lent to me for the weekend.  It takes a bit of getting accustomed to a touch screen.  I am used to the screen only reacting to my stylus.  After an hour with the UMPC I went …
Michael Ducker / treocentral.com:
Treo 700w users: Daylight Savings Time Change Bug  —  Palm contacted TreoCentral early this morning to notify our staff and our readers, that Palm has found a significant bug related to the Treo 700w's Daylight Savings Time functions.  Sunday morning, when most of America "springs-ahead" …
USA Today:
Web users walk Great Firewall of China  —  BEIJING — Clad in jeans and a denim jacket, college student Jin Shan sips Coke and battles demons in an online fantasy game at an Internet cafe in Beijing's university district.  —  "Most people who come here are like me," says the 23-year-old economics major.
Discussion: Digital Inspiration and Techdirt
Harry McCracken / PC World's Techlog:
What Does "Windows Vista Capable" Mean?  —  Next month, new PCs will show up with stickers identifying them as being "Windows Vista Capable."  But "Capable of Running Certain Versions of Windows Vista, But Maybe Not Stupendously Well" might be a more accurate designation, it seems.
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Seo Book / Aaron Wall's SEO Book.com:
Web Directories...are They Relevant to SEO?  —  With Zeal recently closing (I think Looksmart are dumb to have closed it) some people have recently been questioning the value of directories.  —  $hoemoney recently had a mini interview of a few SEOs asking if they are still relevant.
Warner Crocker / Life On the Wicked Stage:
Tableteers And Bloggers Have Fun With April Fools Day  —  It is tough to be creative and fun on April Fools Day at the same time as preparing to open a new show.  Of course the rest of the blogosphere and a few Tableteers had quite a bit of fun.  James Kendrick had this funny take on Apple entering the Tablet scape.
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Anil Dash:
Your April Fool's Joke Sucks.
Norimitsu Onishi / New York Times:
In a Wired South Korea, Robots Will Feel Right at Home  —  SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea, the world's most wired country, is rushing to turn what sounds like science fiction into everyday life.  The government, which succeeded in getting broadband Internet into 72 percent of all households …
Discussion: Engadget
Walter White / govtech.net:
Why Municipal Wi-Fi May Be a Bad Investment for Cities  —  This is a response by Walter White, vice president state and local government, for Verizon Communications, to a March 18 Viewpoint by John Eger titled: "Freeing Cities from Cable and Telco Monopolies."
Discussion: public ponderings
Chip Chick:
Nyko Nano Sound Stage  —  Sporting a stylish brushed aluminum and acryllic exterior, Nyko's Sound Stage is a classy little stereo system that also serves as a charging/transfer station for your Nano.  A 9 button remote is included to wirelessly give you access your iPods tracks and photos.
Discussion: Gizmodo and MobileWhack.com
voip-info.org:
Create a vitual PABX in just minutes for free.  —  With Easy PABX you can create your own virtual PABX online in just minutes.  Easy PABX is based on Asterisk and best of all - it's completely free.  — Attended and blind transfers of call  — Dual Calling - have your mobile call along with you local extension
Discussion: Alec Saunders .LOG
Jason Calacanis / The Jason Calacanis Weblog:
Seth Godin says Squidoo is not MLM  —  Seth replies to my "Newsvine/Squidoo doing the MLM thing" post.  —  Seth says "Neal is correct.  This isn't MLM, not by any definition (not that there's anything wrong with that.)  You are entitled to your opinion, whether I like it or not, but your facts are wrong."
Discussion: Web Publishing Blog and pc4media
Rick Turoczy / hypocritical:
Nick Carr wins the annual hypocritical April Fools' Day "Dark Cloud" award  —  UPDATE (April 2, 2006): It's strange—and oft mentioned—how the most random little posts, the ones you don't think will really draw any attention, suddenly do.  Kind of like the room going quiet as you yell …
Discussion: Scobleizer
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Hugh Macleod / gapingvoid:
APRIL FOOL'S JUMPED THE SHARK
Discussion: Scobleizer
 
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