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Elise Ackerman / Mercury News:
Artist's family asks Google to take down Thursday's `painted' logo — After angering authors last fall with a wide-ranging book-copying project, Google may now be alienating some visual artists as well by allegedly reproducing famous works in drawings on the search giant's home page.
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Clive Thompson / New York Times:
Google in China: The Big Disconnect — The World Wide Web, Abridged: Patrons in an internet cafe in Beijing. Chatting about sports, posting entries to blogs — fine. Visiting pro-democracy sites — no way. — For many young people in China, Kai-Fu Lee is a celebrity.
John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
Initiative — There's no other way for me to start this other than by firing away: Last week I left my full-time job at Joyent, for the sole reason so that I can write Daring Fireball as a full-time job. — Two years ago, when I made tentative steps in this direction …
Declan McCullagh / CNET News.com:
Apple pushes to unmask product leaker — A California court in San Jose on Thursday is scheduled to hear a case brought by Apple Computer that eventually could answer an unsettled legal question: Should online journalists receive the same rights as traditional reporters? — Apple claims they should not.
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Jason D. O'Grady / The Apple Core:
EFF stands up for online journalists' rights in Apple v. Does — The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) told a San Jose, California appeals court Thursday that denying protections for confidential sources would deliver a dangerous blow to online journalism and independent media.
Kristin Huguet / Apple:
Apple Offers Free Computer Take-Back Program — Apple Named One of Top Ten Environmentally Progressive Companies — CUPERTINO, California—April 21, 2006—Apple® today announced an expansion of its successful recycling program, offering free computer take-back and recycling with the purchase …
Gizmodo, The Gadget Blog:
Macstravaganza at Microsoft — If you've ever fantasized about what 150 Mac Minis might look like, well, you really are a bigger dweeb than we'd thought and we're so totally never going to go out on a date with you, so stop asking already! Jeez. Print this photo of your dream realized …
Discussion:
Infinite Loop, Cathode Tan, David Weiss, The Unofficial Apple Weblog and Investor Relations Blog
dailytech.com:
Seagate Leaks 750GB Barracuda 7200.10 Details … A PDF accidentally showed up on Seagate's website earlier today with the latest details on perpendicular desktop hard drives — Seagate insiders contacted us early this morning with a few snippets of information (PDF) concerning the upcoming Barracuda 7200.10 series hard drives.
Valleywag:
Guest story: TechCrunch says "Wired's gonna be my bitch" — PR blogger Jeremy Pepper reports from last night's Third Thursday PR gathering (co-hosted by Pepper). The lowdown: Michael Arrington's TechCrunch blog is gunning for top tech news outlet. — Last night, at the always fun F&A in Palo Alto …
Jason Calacanis / The Jason Calacanis Weblog:
The Digg Backlash (or when the wisdom of crowds turns into the madness of the masses) — Update: DIGG did the right thing and turned a bunch of spammers off. The spammers are upset—total non-issue. Rock on TeamDigg... and don't let the bastards get you down!
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SEO Consultant Esoos Bobnar, duncanriley.com, Businesspundit, Publishing 2.0, BASEMENT.ORG and SuperGeek
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Saul Hansell / New York Times:
Google Posts 60% Gain in Earnings — Google returned to favor among investors yesterday as its profit for the first quarter increased 60 percent, well above expectations. — Three months ago, the company disappointed investors, even though its profit grew 82 percent, and its stock sagged.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
More Details on AOL's "MySpace Killer" — Ted Leonsis at AOL writes about the recent AOL "MySpace Killer" rumors. Here are the additional details he gives: … I've done some digging, though, and it appears that a "MySpace Killer" is exactly what AOL is trying to build.
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Wired News:
Typo Confounds Kryptos Sleuths — For more than a decade, amateur and professional cryptographers have been trying to decipher an encrypted sculpture that sits on the grounds of the CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia. Three-fourths of the sculpture has already been solved.
Discussion:
Schneier on Security
Russell Shaw / IP Telephony, VoIP, Broadband:
MoveOn.org's "net neutrality" petition is naive and silly: Pulver's Save the Internet initiative is not — This week, liberal political and citizens' actions organization MoveOn.org sent a "Save The Internet" petition to its more than three million members.
Stuart Ellott / New York Times:
Television Stations Are Urged to Break a Few Rules — THE expression "think outside the box" has been overused enough to become jargon. But for a few hours yesterday it was appropriate, as local television stations were urged to diversify beyond their boxes, i.e., TV sets, to remain relevant …
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IP Democracy
Economist:
Among the audience — The era of mass media is giving way to one of personal and participatory media, says Andreas Kluth. That will profoundly change both the media industry and society as a whole — THE next big thing in 1448 was a technology called "movable type" …
Bloomberg:
Google First-Quarter Net Rises 60%, Beating Analyst Estimates — April 20 (Bloomberg) — Google Inc., the most-used search engine, said first-quarter profit rose 60 percent, beating analysts' estimates, as the company took market share from Yahoo! Inc. and Microsoft Corp.'s MSN.
Dhiramshah / New Launches:
Panasonic LF-MB121JD Blu-Ray drives goes on sale in June — Panasonic has announced the LF-MB121JD Blu-Ray drive for PC. The drive can record BD discs at 2x speed, Panasonic said. It also can record DVD±R and DVD+RW at 8x speed, DVD±R DL at 4X speed, DVD-RW at 6X …
