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4:45 AM ET, February 26, 2007

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Robert Young / GigaOM:
Hollywood Disrupted  —  Reading through the LA Times, as I do before The Oscars every year, I came across a fantastic Op-Ed written by a respected Hollywood author by the name of Neal Gabler.  The opinion piece, titled "The Movie Magic is Gone", explains how Hollywood is losing its place …
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Neal Gabler / Los Angeles Times:
The movie magic is gone
Discussion: IP Democracy and Digital Markets
Dan Farber / Between the Lines:
Reflections on the first decade of blogging  —  I ran into my old friend Dave Winer at the San Francisco airport on Wednesday last week.  He was on his way to Boston for the Public Media Conference.  We traded pictures and chatted over early morning (6:30 AM) coffee about developers …
Rafat Ali / PaidContent:
BitTorrent's New Service To Launch Tomorrow; Service Rife With Restrictions  —  There are so many ironies in this that I feel bad for Cohen and his team: BitTorrent, the commercial company born out of the P2P software by the same name, is launching its service tomorrow, called BitTorrent Entertainment Network …
Discussion: Variety, I4U News and Gizmodo
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Evan Blass / Engadget:
BitTorrent Entertainment Network to be unveiled tomorrow
Discussion: IPcentral Weblog and digg
Mathew / mathewingram.com/work:
BitTorrent service is built to fail
Ken Fisher / Ars Technica:
EMI to Apple, Microsoft: Ditching DRM is going to cost you  —  Earlier this month it was widely reported that EMI was indeed ready to cast DRM into the dark abyss and earn the company the honorable status of being the first major music label to realize that DRM alienates honest customers.
Discussion: Neowin.net
Pranam Kolari / UMBC eBiquity:
The I's of the Blogosphere  —  The token "I" (1, 2) can provide interesting cues on the Blogosphere, other than signifying the obvious personal nature of blog posts.  "I" sometimes use it to study the growth of the blogosphere (between David Sifry reports ofcourse), or just for fun …
Discussion: 901am
Andrew Ross Sorkin / New York Times:
When Unequals Try to Merge as Equals  —  HERE'S a tip about deal-making: When companies start talking about a "merger of equals," someone is usually getting the better deal.  It is especially true in the proposed merger of XM Satellite Radio and Sirius Satellite Radio.
Discussion: Information Arbitrage
Scott Karp / Publishing 2.0:
The Great Media Industry Schism  —  The once monolithic media industry is undergoing a radical schism, dividing itself into content creation, on the one hand, and content aggregation and distribution on the other.  —  The nature of this transformation suddenly crystallized …
New York Times:
Tribune Considering Late Offer From Real Estate Magnate  —  The Tribune Company, in discussions about its future, is weighing a proposal from Sam Zell, the Chicago real estate maverick and billionaire who sold his huge office development company this month for $39 billion in the biggest leveraged buyout ever.
PRWeb:
Oscar Nominations - Wordtracker Predictions  —  The movie and gossip columns today are awash with speculation on the Oscar nominations.  Asking who will walk away with the prizes is great fun not only in the US but throughout the world.  But is there anyway to really get an inside track?
Arn / MacRumors:
Apple iPhone Teaser Ad Airs During Oscars [Updatex3]  —  Apple aired their teaser ad for the Apple iPhone during the Oscars tonight.  The ad has run multiple times during the Oscars.  —  The advertisement started with a collection of scenes from television and film with actors saying "Hello" on a telephone.
Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog:
Six cool things you can build with OpenID  —  I've posted the slides from my Future of Web Apps talk on OpenID, minus the demo videos.  I'm planning to put together a video that combines the slides, demos and audio once the official podcasts have been published.
Discussion: Loud Thinking
Google Blogoscoped:
Google Video Plusbox  —  While searching Google for nightwish videos, Razvan Antonescu spotted this video plusbox* (ignore the blue link bars in the screenshot, they're from a Firefox extension).  Alongside a snippet from Google Video, a plus icon appeared with a link reading "show video" …
Discussion: Googling Google
John Biggs / CrunchGear:
The Best Anti-PS3 Song of the Weekend  —  Watch it.  You'll either laugh, cry, or want to start a flame war, but this is a perfect example of an audience talking back to a massive corporation that has lost its way.  Sony — watch this multiple times and send a translated version to Tokyo, just so they get all the nuance.
New York Times:
In Big Buyout, Utility to Limit New Coal Plants  —  Under a proposed $45 billion buyout by a team of private equity firms, the TXU Corporation, a Texas utility that has long been the bane of environmental groups, will abandon plans to build 8 of 11 coal plants and commit to a broad menu …
 
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Darren Murph / Engadget:
Windows-based ATM machine hacked, gets Painted
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Jeannie Choe / Engadget:
Gamer busted for "borrowing" library WiFi after hours
Discussion: Wi-Fi and digg
Brady Forrest / O'Reilly Radar:
CTO of Google Earth On Adding Web Search
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 Earlier Items: 
Steve Poland / TechCrunch:
Yahoo Publisher Network's Trojan Horse
Leslie Wayne / New York Times:
Starbucks Chairman Fears Tradition Is Fading
Darren / Digital Camera Reviews, Ratings …:
Olympus to Release DSLR/s on 5 March
Discussion: Gizmodo and Engadget
 

 
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Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
Ofcom rules that five GB News programs presented by Conservative politicians have broken its due impartiality rules and puts the channel “on notice”

Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
Authentic Brands licenses Sports Illustrated's publishing rights to The Players' Tribune owner Minute Media for 10 years, with plans to keep the print edition

Todd Spangler / Variety:
YouTuber MrBeast announces a deal with Prime Video for Beast Games, a reality-competition show with 1,000 contestants, promising the winner a $5M cash prize

 
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