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8:55 AM ET, April 17, 2007

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Kevin Poulsen / Threat Level:
Internet Names the Wrong Killer  —  In the absence of any official information from police on the identity of the Virginia Tech killer, internet sleuths claiming to be in-the-know have been calling attention — on message boards and online aggregators like Digg — to the LiveJournal blog of a particular 23-year-old gun nut in Virginia.
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Blogs, Cell Phones Provide Coverage of Virginia Tech Shootings  —  Information Week reports that blogs and cell phones helped provide some of the earliest coverage of the shooting tragedy at Virginia Tech this morning.  A New York Times article calls the horrific incident the "deadliest shooting rampage in American history."
Robin Hamman / cybersoc.com:   virginia tech bloggers: approach and confirm or link and disclaim?
Dan Gillmor / Center for Citizen Media:
Mobile Phone Journalism at Virginia Tech
Mike / Techdirt:
Judge Says Too Bad To Webcasters Upset About New Webcast Rates  —  from the sorry,-nothing-can-be-done dept  —  Last month, when the RIAA pushed through new webcasting royalty rates that were clearly designed to kill off a lot of webcasters, many people said not to worry, that the whole thing was just part of a negotiation.
Discussion: RSS, Mark Evans, 901am and Like It Matters
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Seth Sutel / Associated Press:
Judges reject appeals from webcasters  —  LAS VEGAS (AP) — Internet radio broadcasters were dealt a setback Monday when a panel of copyright judges threw out requests to reconsider a ruling that hiked the royalties they must pay to record companies and artists.
Discussion: Download Squad
Eric Bangeman / Ars Technica:
Internet radio dealt severe blow as Copyright Board rejects appeal
Jon Hicks / hicksdesign:
Google Reader Theme  —  I've been using Flickr as a bit of testbed for a new site theme I've been working on for Google Reader.  C'mon after the Bloglines thing, I bet you saw it coming didn't you?!  —  Same drill again then.  There may well be oddness and inconsistencies …
Greg Sandoval / CNET News.com:
Schmidt says YouTube 'very close' to filtering system  —  update LAS VEGAS—Google is very near enacting a filtering service that would prevent copyright content from being uploaded to video-sharing site YouTube, CEO Eric Schmidt said Monday.  —  Schmidt made the comments to about 300 people …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
TechCrunch20 Conference Site Now Live  —  The official TechCrunch20 Conference website is live and has officially launched, and we are now taking company submissions and attendee registrations.  The dedicated TechCrunch20 blog is published at techcrunch20.com/blog.
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Katie Fehrenbacher / GigaOM:
TechCrunch20 Now Live
APC:
Intel announces "Core 2 Duo on steroids" - automatic overclocking  —  Intel today announced new details of its forthcoming Santa Rosa PC platform, including a significant revision of the Core 2 Duo chip.  —  "We call this processor Core 2 Duo but really it's Core 2 Duo on steroids.
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Eric Bangeman / Ars Technica:
WiMAX coming to Intel laptops in 2008
Discussion: jkOnTheRun
Li Evans / Search Marketing Gurus:
Newsvine Beats Digg To Punch  —  Looks like Newsvine's users beat Digg's users in promoting the tragic mass shooting at Virginia Tech to the front page.  It was just about 1 p.m., and I was just finishing up lunch when I decided to take a gander at how the social news sites were handling this story.
Nokia:
The new Nokia 6120 classic combines faster download speeds with functionality  —  More and more consumers are using their mobile phones for tasks such as downloading music, streaming video, browsing the Internet or receiving emails with attachments.  The compact Nokia 6120 classic phone makes …
Discussion: Ring Nokia
Ken / Digital Common Sense:
On Being a Digital Road Warrior  —  I've been a road warrior in one form or fashion for a very long time.  Lately, the things things I carry with me have changed...evolved.  I carry at least one camera, my Nikon D50, almost daily.  I carry a Marantz PMD660 digital recorder all the time.
Miguel Helft / New York Times:
Yahoo Strikes Ad Deal With More Papers  —  After a flurry of deal making over the last few days, Google and Yahoo, two giants of the online advertising business, are set to encroach on each other's turf even more aggressively than before.  —  On Monday, Yahoo announced a broad deal …
Erik Wingren / blog.snap.com:
Introducing Snap Shots, from Snap.com  —  On Tuesday, November 14, 2006, Snap launched a new web service that enabled the display of a graphic preview for literally any link anywhere.  The service was called Snap Preview Anywhere, or "SPA" for short, and it took off like a rocket.
Peter / The Local Onliner:
FatDoor Crawls the Web for Neighbor Info  —  Whenever a new man moves into my community, one of the mothers in my neighborhood immediately searches the Megan's List database, which is dedicated to ID'ing sexual offenders  —  A new site, FatDoor, however, hopes to look on the brighter side of having new neighbors.
Discussion: Screenwerk
Om Malik / GigaOM:
100 Megabits to the home by 2015?  —  Can Americans dream about a day when they get a 100-megabit-per-second broadband connection, delivered over fiber?  FTTH Council, says yes, and is pushing the US government to adopt a 100 Megabit Nation policy.  The Council says that we have the technology …
 
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Tony Smith / The Register:
Intel restyles laptop as wireless fashion accessory
Discussion: Gadget Lab, Gizmodo and Engadget
Paul Miller / Engadget:
Vonage: no workaround, we're pretty much screwed
Discussion: GigaOM, Gadgetell and digg
Blake Robinson / MobileCrunch:
Tellme Launches Free 411 Service
Andrew Orlowski / The Register:
Nokia seeks lost Marble widgets
Discussion: Ring Nokia
Ellie Gibson / GamesIndustry.biz:
Fighting Fit  —  THQ boss Brian Farrell on the next-gen console battle.
Mike / Techdirt:
More Evidence That Obscurity Is A Bigger Threat To Content Creators Than Piracy
Lifehacker:
Lifehacker Code: Better Gmail (Firefox extension)
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Barbara Quint / newsbreaks.infotoday.com:
Sci-Tech Societies Unite to Create Scitopia.org Search Portal
Ryan Block / Engadget:
RED ONE hands-on, RED NAB booth tour
Dan Farber / Between the Lines:
Web 2.0 Expo: Amazon's S3 passes 5 billion objects stored
Discussion: TechCrunch
Dan Farber / Between the Lines:
Tim O'Reilly: We are becoming part of the machine
Discussion: Profy.Com and Read/WriteWeb
Bilal Hameed / Startup Meme:
Zillow Becomes Illegal in Arizona
Linda Goin / VoIP Now:
74 Open Source VoIP Apps & Resources
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Netvibes Launches Universe: Customized Public Pages
Discussion: Mashable!
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
Irony alert: Microsoft, AT&T oppose Google/DoubleClick merger on antitrust grounds