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7:10 PM ET, July 19, 2006

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Robert MacMillan / Reuters:
Storytelling, not journalism, spurs most blogs  —  NEW YORK (Reuters) - Many people see Web journals or "blogs" as alternatives to the mainstream media, but most Americans who run them do so as a hobby rather than a vocation, according to a report released on Wednesday.
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pewinternet.org:
Bloggers: A portrait of the internet's new storytellers  —  The ease and appeal of blogging is inspiring a new group of writers and creators to share their voices with the world.  —  A national phone survey of bloggers finds that most are focused on describing their personal experiences …
Scott Karp / Publishing 2.0:
3 Million Bloggers Looking to Make Money  —  The Pew Internet & American Life Project released the results from a blogger survey today, which detailed the reasons why bloggers blog.  The report focuses on some notion of storytelling vs. journalism (whatever), but what jumped out at me was that 7% …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Huge Red Flag at Netscape  —  A little known Digg-fact is that a relatively small group of users submit a large percentage of the stories that end up on the Digg home page.  Netscape, which recently relaunched as a Digg-clone, wants to pay those top users to switch over to them.
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Yahoo! Search blog:
Finding Home Values in Web Search  —  With all the recent discussion on where home prices are heading, we saw a great opportunity to improve our home valuation product on Yahoo! Real Estate.  We've integrated our product with Zillow.com to provide users with free instant home value estimates …
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Zillow Blog:
Zillow Teams with Yahoo! Real Estate and Yahoo! Search
Discussion: SearchViews and Screenwerk
David E. Williams / CNN:
Google's unknown artist has huge following  —  (CNN) — Dennis Hwang may be the most famous unknown artist in the world — his work doesn't hang in galleries or museums, but it's been viewed hundreds of millions of times.  —  The 28-year-old webmaster designs the whimsical logos …
Sony:
SONY RAISES THE CURTAIN ON STYLISHLY DESIGNED, SPACE-SAVING HOME THEATER SYSTEMS  —  NEW YORK, July 18, 2006 - Sony is bringing the listening room to the living room with the launch of two packaged home theater solutions that optimize the company's legacy of design and high-quality A/V performance.
Discussion: Engadget and I4U News
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Sony:
SONY DELIVERS MUSIC WIRELESSLY THROUGHOUT THE HOME
Discussion: Engadget and I4U News
Iancr / Yahoo! Music Blog:
Buy A Customized Jessica Simpson MP3 At Yahoo! Music  —  You can buy a personalized version of the new Jessica Simpson song "A Public Affair" from Yahoo! Music's Web Site (Music.Yahoo.com) for $1.99, and it's an MP3.  Dear digital consumer, even if you're not into Jessica Simpson …
Internet Stocks on SeekingAlpha:
Yahoo! Inc. Q2 2006 Earnings Conference Call Transcript (YHOO)  —  Executives  —  Sue Decker - CFO and EVP, Finance and Administration  —  Marta Nichols - Director of Investor Relations  —  Analysts  —  Presentation  —  Operator  —  Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen and welcome to the Yahoo! …
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Elinor Mills / CNET News.com:
AOL launches corporate IM service  —  AOL is set to launch on Wednesday its new AIM Pro instant-messaging service, which features security and online meeting functions aimed at corporate users.  —  The service, which is free for anyone to use, integrates with Microsoft Outlook's calendar …
Ian Sager / Business Week:
iPod Accessories Gone Wild  —  The desire to personalize the Apple music-player experience—and make a fast buck—has resulted in some downright odd products  —  The early, runaway success of Apple Computer's iPod has spawned a whole ecosystem of third-party suppliers pushing accessories …
San Francisco Chronicle:
Comcast throws a curve in its broadband pitch  —  As AT&T prepares to enter the video market in the Bay Area, Comcast is attempting to get owners of local apartment buildings to agree to 10-year contracts that would grant the cable giant an exclusive right to provide tenants with all broadband services.
Discussion: Techdirt
Tim / O'Reilly Radar:
Four Big Ideas About Open Source  —  In my O'Reilly Radar Executive Briefing next week at OSCON, I'm focusing on four big ideas about open source:  — The architecture of participation beyond software.  Software development was the canary in the coalmine, one of the first areas to show …
Lee Gomes / Wall Street Journal:
All the Good Ones Have Been Taken — In Domain Names, Too  —  It's hardly secret knowledge, though perhaps only Dennis Forbes has seen it in all its glory.  —  There are roughly 47 million domain names that end with ".com," making that space the biggest and most prestigious piece of real estate on the Internet.
Discussion: Fast Company Now
Peter Svensson / Associated Press:
AT&T launches box with Web, satellite  —  NEW YORK - AT&T Inc. is launching a satellite TV set-top box Wednesday that also connects to the Internet for movie downloads, reinforcing the phone company's push into video services.  —  The box, called AT&T Homezone, will be initially available …
Marshall Kirkpatrick / TechCrunch:
StumbleUpon now IE friendly  —  The wildly popular Firefox extension StumbleUpon released this morning a toolbar for Internet Explorer users.  The service lets you browse around web sites that have been recommended by friends and other users with interests similar to your own.
microsoft.com:
Windows Principles  —  Twelve Tenets to Promote Competition  —  Microsoft Corp. recognizes the important role its Windows® desktop operating system products play in the information economy and the responsibilities that come with that role.  To promote competitive opportunities …
 
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ExtremeTech:
Which New Browser Is Best: Firefox 2, Internet Explorer 7, or Opera 9?
Sahad / VC Circle:
Sequoia Capital Invests $20 Million In Amalgamated Bean Coffee Trading
Discussion: alarm:clock
Russell Shaw / IP Telephony, VoIP, Broadband:
Strategic partnership destined for failure: directionless Microsoft …
Sony:
SONY'S BLUETOOTH CAR STEREO MAKES ROAD TRIPS HIGH-FIDELITY AND HANDS-FREE
Brian Krebs / Security Fix:
Hacked Ad Seen on MySpace Served Spyware to a Million
Tom Coates / plasticbag.org:
Who's afraid of Ashley Highfield?
Discussion: paidContent.org
Joris Evers / CNET News.com:
Rootkits get better at hiding
Katie Fehrenbacher / GigaOM:
NSF Backs Open Source Wireless Mesh Project
Discussion: Policy Blog
 Earlier Items: 
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Silicon Valley & The iTunes Ripple Effect
Jennifer DeLeo / Gearlog:
Move Over Movielink: CinemaNow Launches Burn To DVD Service Today
New York Times:
Wall Street Journal to Run Ads on Front Page
Paul Krill / InfoWorld:
Sun CTO: Incremental open-sourcing of Java is the way
Diane Mermigas / Hollywood Reporter:
News Corp., DirecTV take broadband to the Max
CNET News.com:
Judge: Google News lawsuit can proceed
Jason Stamper / businessreviewonline.com:
Will SGI Become the Next Data General?
Bloomberg:
Microsoft, Nortel Partner to Build Phone Software (Update2)
Discussion: Larry Borsato, DealBook and 21talks