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att.sbc.com:
AT&T, BellSouth to Merge — Combination Will Speed Innovation, Competition and Convergence — Natural combination of two leading wireline providers and joint owners of Cingular speeds progress in integrated wireless/wireline services — Substantial financial benefits for stockholders …
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IP Democracy, PaidContent.org, mobile content news, Larry Borsato and Smalltalk Tidbits …
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Ken Belson / New York Times:
AT&T Is Said to Be Near Deal for BellSouth — AT&T Corp. is planning to acquire BellSouth Corp., according to several people familiar with the negotiations who asked not to be identified because of the sensitivity of the talks. — A merger of two of the four remaining Bell phone companies …
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Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check
Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:
Ma v. Bell: Power to the people … At the Online Publishers Association confab, I took to the stage and renamed my panel. It was called, Embracing the Audience. But I said the audience doesn't necessarily care whether big media embraces us and besides, were not an audience anymore, just watching what the big guys do.
WSJ.com - U.S. Home:
AT&T Announces BellSouth Deal — AT&T UNVEILED a deal to acquire BellSouth for about $67 billion in stock, in an agreement that would create a telecom giant and give AT&T sole control over Cingular, the nation's largest wireless operator. (Companies' statement) 9:09 p.m. — • AT&T's Plan Represents Big Bet
Om Malik / GigaOM:
AT&T To Buy BellSouth — Update: AT&T, BellSouth confirm the merger. "This merger is a logical next step that creates substantial value for customers and stockholders of both AT&T and BellSouth," said AT&T Chairman and CEO Edward E. Whitacre Jr in a statement.
Scobleizer / Microsoft Geek Blogger:
The John Dvorakification of the blogosphere (I'm signing off of Memeorandum) — I'm unsubscribing from Memeorandum. — Reading Dave Winer this morning made me realize I'm just falling down a dark hole. It's the same hole I was in in the 1990s when I posted about 100,000 items on various newsgroups …
Richard Siklos / New York Times:
How Much Profit Is Lurking in That Cellphone? — IN some ways, wireless is the new China. Both are huge, largely untapped markets for news and entertainment media companies. And media executives have made a lot of dreamy statements about both of these markets and funneled a lot of effort into them.
Ryan / the ryan king:
Live by the Snark, die by the Snark — I wrote about how I thought MashupCamp was kinda lame and exploited the meme of 'the Camps' awhile ago, but its recently gotten some push-back from Doc Searls which I'd like to rebut by quoting liberally and interspersing my comments...
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Mathew / mathewingram.com/work:
Anyone for a chorus of Kumbaya? — I'd like to echo my friend and fellow blog-conference organizer Mark Evans's post earlier today about conferences and un-conferences and camps and whatnot. It seems some noses got out of joint over the whole MashupCamp versus BarCamp thing …
Matt Richtel / New York Times:
Is the Pen as Mighty as the Joystick? — WHEN the package showed up last November at his house outside of Portland, Ore., David Hodgson initially felt a wave of great excitement. But that promptly gave way to foreboding. — As soon as he opened the bundle, he realized that a clock …
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Joystiq
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Get Ready for PodServe (and more) — Brian Oberkirch from Weblogswork gave me a demo of PodServe today. If you are a podcaster, or want to be, there are some features that you are going to be really interested in trying out. — As I see it there are three important features of note.
Rick Segal / The Post Money Value:
Google's Secrets Exposed — Here's a very good use of 48 minutes. — Seth Godin spoke to Google and, in 48 minutes, pretty much gave the talk every company of any size offering any product or service should watch. — There is a pretty interesting moment that struck a cord with me.
Scobleizer / Microsoft Geek Blogger:
The role of anti-marketing design — At the Northern Voice conference I met Markus Frind, founder of Plentyoffish.com. He's Google's #1 Adsense user in Canada. His site is pulling in more than $10,000 per day from Google, he told me, and has millions of passionate users. Tens of millions of page views EVERY DAY.
Russell Beattie Notebook:
The Feed Icon! — I've been noticing the use of a standard new icon for feeds lately on a lot of newer sites, and I immediately recognized it because I use FireFox and that's what pops into the address bar if a web page has a feed associated with it. My immediate reaction to seeing the icon …
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Somewhat Frank
Keith Teare / edgeio corporation:
edgeio product plans discussed — edgeio has a number of product releases due to happen over the next 2 weeks or so. As we discussed in a couple of places, edgeio was launched with a set of features specifically designed for bloggers who are familiar with tagging, and with ping servers.
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Marketing Begins At Home
