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7:45 PM ET, March 18, 2007

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Om Malik / GigaOM:
Fox executive new TechCrunch CEO  —  Heather Harde, senior vice president of mergers and acquisitions at Fox Interactive Media is all set to join as the new chief executive officer at TechCrunch, an technology blog edited and published by Michael Arrington.  —  Arrington could not be reached for a comment.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Welcome To TechCrunch, Heather  —  I have the pleasure of confirming the rumors: Heather Harde, currently the SVP of Mergers and Acquisitions at Fox Interactive Media, will start her new job as the CEO of the TechCrunch Network (and my boss) by the end of the month.
Ben / Ben Metcalfe Blog:
TechCrunch hires Heather Harde as CEO, will it become a VC firm?  —  I'm still digesting today's somewhat surprising news that Michael Arrington has hired Heather Harde as CEO of the TechCrunch Network.  For those who don't know, Heather is currently in charge of Acquisitions and Mergers at Fox Interactive Media.
Discussion: Digital Markets
Keith Teare / Keith Teare's Weblog:
It Is True. Heather Harde Is New TechCrunch CEO
Discussion: Mark Evans and Master of 500 Hats
Lawrence Lessig / New York Times:
Make Way for Copyright Chaos  —  LAST week, Viacom asked a federal court to order the video-sharing service YouTube to pay it more than $1 billion in damages for some 150,000 videos that Viacom claims it owns and YouTube users have shared.  "YouTube," the complaint alleges …
Tim O'Reilly / O'Reilly Radar:
The Web 2.0 Address Book May Have Arrived  —  David Pogue recently sent out the following email message to all his contacts: … In a private note to me, he wrote: "I'm using, of course, GrandCentral, which was the topic of my column today.  It's pretty awesome—I'd think you might be a prime candidate, too!"
Discussion: 901am
Mark Ward / BBC:
Mobile targets the 50+ generation  —  Technology correspondent, BBC News website  —  A mobile phone with a built-in emergency button has been produced for elderly and older people.  —  The Life phone is aimed at those aged 50-plus who do not want a handset crammed with every possible feature.
Conrad Quilty-Harper / Engadget:
Keepin' it real fake, part XLX: The "Ipod style Mobile Phone iPhone"  —  Keepin' it real fake, part L: The "Ipod style Mobile Phone iPhone"  —  We've gotta hand it to them: electronics conmen are extremely confident in their belief in the ignorance of the masses.
Discussion: textually.org and digg
Mark Ward / BBC:
Vehicle warning system trialled  —  Technology correspondent, BBC News website  —  Vehicles may soon be swapping information about road conditions to warn drivers about jams and dangers.  —  A German research project on show at hi-tech trade fair Cebit envisions a peer-to-peer network …
Scott Karp / The Blog Herald:
Twitter Lowers The Bar For Blogging  —  It's only a matter of time before people start to Twitter in the bathroom.  If you don't know what Twitter is (either because you don't follow online technology or you've been locked in a sock drawer), that IS as bad is it sounds, but not in the way you probably think.
Discussion: 901am, media blog and Bloggers Blog
Paul Durman / Times of London:
'Microsoft sucks', says top blogger  —  MICROSOFT's formerly tame blogger has bitten the software company that made his name when it employed him as a "technology evangelist".  —  Robert Scoble writes the Scobleizer web log, one of the most-read sources of technology commentary on the internet.
Jason Clarke / Download Squad:
ThinkingRock - cross-platform GTD application  —  While many other task management applications have found ways to incorporate the ideas put forth by the Getting Things Done methodology that David Allen developed, it seems that very few have been built from the ground up as GTD applications.
Enigmax / TorrentFreak:
P2P File-Sharing Ruins Physical Piracy Business  —  Tony started his life of piracy sometime in the 1990's working markets, car-boot sales and pubs in the UK, selling counterfeit PC applications/games and console discs for a fraction of the retail price.  "The profit was amazing back then" …
Seamusmccauley / Virtual Economics:
Ask's mistargeted "Information revolution"; or the fatuity of hijacking the counterculture  —  An ostensibly grassroots tube advertising campaign promoting the website information-revolution-org was outed (Curverider) late last week as a flimsy bit of astroturfing carried out by Profero for the Ask.com search engine.
Discussion: Hacking Cough, hubbub and Matt Cutts
Robert McMillan / PC World:
Hackers Promise Month of MySpace Bugs  —  They won't divulge their real names, they call their project a "whiny, attention-seeking ploy," and they appear to take their fashion cues from Beastie Boys music videos.  —  They won't divulge their real names, they call their project a "whiny …
Discussion: Neowin.net and digg
Rosyna / Unsanity.org:
Shock and Awe: How Installing Apple's Updates can Render Your Mac Unbootable and How You Can Prevent it  —  Yes, I am fully aware that I just told every one to update to Mac OS X 10.4.9 and I know this may be construed as me telling people not to.  —  When you see the "Optimizing System Performance" …
 
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Alexander Sliwinski / Joystiq:
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Jason Clarke / Download Squad:
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Tony / Deep Jive Interests:
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