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Dave Winer / Scripting News:
Why I will stop blogging — I can do it, folks, I have already, in some sense, stopped one of my rivers, and soon, probably before the end of 2006, I will put this site in mothballs, in archive mode, and go on to other things, Murphy-willing of course. — It's been a long time coming.
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Scott Karp / Publishing 2.0:
Blogs Are Institutions, Just Like Old Media Companies — So Dave Winer wants to stop blogging, and Mike Arrington says, NO, you can't, because Scripting News belongs to "us," the readers. Mike is half right — Dave does "own" Scripting News, but the blog has become an institution, like any other Old Media company.
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Swarming Media
Jeff Sandquist:
Microsoft 10 is now on the air — My team and I have been working night and day for some time to launch an all new community called 10. Our dream is to create a place for those people who want to use technology to change the world. — Every weekday at 10:00 am (PST) …
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Scobleizer / Microsoft Geek Blogger:
More hype than an Origami? Yeah, that's On10.net — On10.net is on Digg already. Hot diggity. — I'd hype up this sucker, but it's not gonna need my help. Can you name why? I have at least five reasons. — 1) Talent. Onscreen you'll see some TechTV types. On, no, Molly, that's no objectification.
Astrid Wendlandt / Reuters:
French plan would open iTunes to other devices — PARIS (Reuters) - France is pushing through a law that would force Apple Computer Inc to open its iTunes online music store and enable consumers to download songs onto devices other than the computer maker's popular iPod player.
Charlie Demerjian / Inquirer:
Tyan brings supercomputing to the desktop — CeBIT 2006 Four blades in a stylish box — EVERY SO OFTEN there comes a genre-bending product, and Tyan has one of those on its stand at CeBIT this year. It is called the Typhoon PSC or Person Super Computer, and is aimed at the scientific and HPC set.
Thomas Hawk / Thomas Hawk's Digital Connection:
Yahoo! Shoppers Beware, PriceRitePhoto Strikes Back — Want to know how long it takes a sleazy online retailer to get relisted with Yahoo! Shopping after being delisted for abusing their customers? Give or take a little about three months. — Back on November 29th I wrote …
Garett Rogers / Googling Google:
Google lands on Mars — Tonight I noticed that mars.google.com now has a CNAME record that points to www.google.com. This usually means that something is about to happen with that subdomain — with the exception of calendar.google.com of course. So I started digging and you will never guess …
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Zoli Erdos / Zoli's Blog:
Zoli 3.0 Launched — In a comment to Robert's Scoble's "resume vs. blog" post I promised to launch a "scientific" test soon ... here we go; except that it's not a test. It's real: I'm pleased to announce the limited, invitation-only launch of Zoli 3.0. — Unlike some perpetual Beta …
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Jeff / The Jeff Pulver Blog:
Pulver/Evslin Petition to the FCC on Post-Disaster Communications: — Today, Tom Evslin and I filed a Petition with the US Federal Communications Commission in an effort to mitigate the effects of long-term telephone outages in the event of natural disasters or other public crises.
Alex Mindlin / New York Times:
Buyers Search Online, but Not by Brand — People searching for products online are a perfect target for advertisers, because they are essentially declaring their desire to make a purchase. Recognizing this, many companies pay search engines to show ads to users who have searched for their brand names.
Ryan Tomayko / @lesscode.org:
Gosling Didn't Get The Memo — I've been blissfully neglecting this site for months with the assumption that a large part of our goal was completed. After watching good people like Martin LaMonica and Jon Udell balance out the mainstream tech press with coverage of lessish tools and languages …
Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life:
ETech 2006 Trip Report: Feeds as a Platform: More Data, Less Work — These are my notes from the session Feeds as a Platform: More Data, Less Work by Niall Kennedy, Brent Simmons and Jane Kim. — Niall Kennedy started of by talking about implementations of subscriptions and syndication feeds …
isc.sans.org:
McAfee 4715 DAT False Positive Deletion Reports Follow-up — Last Updated: 2006-03-13 03:52:21 UTC by Patrick Nolan (Version: 3(click to highlight changes)) — Friday we started receiving reports of file deletion problems from admins using McAfee AV, scans that were using the 4715 DAT's issued Friday …
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Watch Blog:
Google Partnering With Publishers To Sell Online Books — Google gave me the heads-up late Friday that a new feature allowing publishers to sell online versions of their books through Google Book Search was about to go live. Nothing was yet online when we talked, but that's since changed.
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Fractals of Change, PaidContent.org, InsideGoogle, Somewhat Frank and Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim
Seth Godin / Seth's Blog:
The noisy tragedy of the blog commons — Blogs are different than most other forms of media in one key respect: they stretch. — TV and radio confront the reality that there are only 24 hours in a day. They can't put on more content, because there's no down time.
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Internet Recruiting
2006.sxsw.com:
DOWNLOAD NOW — Podcasting 2.0 - Saturday, March 11th — Hear about what is coming next in this fast-growing space. Cool trends that will be discussed will be podcast listening and viewing directly on a mobile phone, dynamic program and metadata assembly, audience audio comment feeds …
