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1:05 PM ET, April 21, 2006

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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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Wired News:
Is the Internet Out of Room?  —  NEW YORK — The internet is supposed to be limitless — a boundary-free exchange of digital information and profit.  So how can it be running out of real estate?  —  The answer, according to information technology experts, lies in cyberspace's ever-growing popularity.
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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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 …
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 …
Discussion: POP! PR Jots and CrunchNotes
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.
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.
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 …
Discussion: 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" …
Discussion: achievable ends and Joho the Blog
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.
Courtney McCarty / Gearlog:
Jadoo Power Expands Fuel Cell Product Line  —  What if you could run your laptop for 18 hours before recharging?  It may be possible sometime soon with fuel-cell technology.  —  Jadoo Power Systems Inc, the leading supplier of portable fuel-cell power systems, will introduce products …
Discussion: Ubergizmo and O'Grady's PowerPage
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.
Euan Semple / The Obvious?:
A word or two on conferences  —  I have to say that I am really looking forward to the Blogs and Social Media Forum that I am chairing in May.  —  When the idea was first suggested to me I was really unsure about saying yes.  I have become very wary of being taken advantage …
 
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Nathan Weinberg / InsideGoogle:
GOOGLE LOST A $BILLION IN UNSPENT ADS
Cynthia Brumfield / IP Democracy:
BellSouth Reports Record DSL Growth
Discussion: eHomeUpgrade and GigaOM
Steve Rubel / Micro Persuasion:
The Transient Web  —  Orderly Canadians queue up by Aviator Dave
mobiledia.com:
Motorola Cell Phone Alerts Users by Therapeutic Massage
Discussion: Gizmodo and Engadget Mobile
Nick Farrell / Inquirer:
Boot Camp reveals that OSX is slower than Windows
Tim Arango / New York Post:
APPLE'S NO. 1 HIT  —  RECORD BIZ MAY SING JOBS' ITUNE AFTER ALL
Discussion: Engadget and Techdirt
Jimmie Geddes / Gadgets on the Go:
Verizon Treo 700p spotted
Dhiramshah / New Launches:
Panasonic LF-MB121JD Blu-Ray drives goes on sale in June
Discussion: Gizmodo, Engadget and HD Beat
 Earlier Items: 
Garrett French / Search Engine Lowdown:
Schultz on PubCon: Blogging Advice From Jeremy Zawodny, Matt Cutts and Robert Scoble
Tom Simonite / newscientisttech.com:
Software tracks mood swings of blogosphere
Marc Perton / Engadget:
UK drivers trust GPS more than their own eyes
Brian / Copywriting tips for blog, email …:
The Two Most Important Words in Blogging
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
More Details on AOL's "MySpace Killer"
Ivan Berger / New York Times:
The Virtues of a Second Screen
google.com:
Google Announces First Quarter 2006 Results