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Jason Pontin / New York Times:
From Many Tweets, One Loud Voice on the Internet — "ONLY connect," the English novelist E. M. Forster admonished mankind. I don't think, however, that he meant that we should connect exclusively, or continuously. — Habitual users of a new, free communications service called Twitter would disagree.
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IP Democracy, WebMetricsGuru, UMBC eBiquity, Off On A Tangent, Paul Mooney, Newsome.Org, rexduffdixon.com, Smart Mobs and parislemon
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James Kendrick / jkOnTheRun:
More information surfaces from Dell on Tablet PC rumors — Quite a few people have been hoping that PC maker Dell would come out with a Tablet PC. Not only would a Dell Tablet PC help validate the platform it would also make it easier for companies who use Dell computers exclusively …
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Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
Doubleclick turned down Microsoft money? — John Battelle reports that Microsoft was actually offering more money than Google was for Doubleclick and that Doubleclick went with Google anyway. — I heard the same things about Flickr. Rumors are that Flickr's owners turned down AOL's money …
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Sam Harrelson, Incremental Blogger, mathewingram.com/work and John Battelle's Searchblog
Kdawson / Slashdot:
Safeguards For RIAA Hard Drive Inspection — it (a) permits the RIAA's own imaging person to make the initial mirror image — IANAL, but having RTFA, I'd say that statement's a bit misleading. It actually states that an expert agreed upon by both parties will make two copies …
Jeremy Reimer / Ars Technica:
This is your life, according to Google — Google's latest project is called Web History, and it offers registered Google Account users a chance to peruse not just their account history with Google, but one's surfing history. "Imagine being able to search over the full text …
Andy Plesser / Beet.TV:
Exclusive: CNN.com Had Record-Breaking 11 Million Video Views on Day of Virginia Tech Schootings — CNN online video clips of news surrounding the Virginia Tech shootings totaled 11.4 million views on Monday, far more than the daily average of 2.1 million streams and exceeding the previous …
Cory Doctorow / Boing Boing:
Mayor of Boston bans Boing Boing — Jake tried to access Boing Boing from Boston's free WiFi network and got this notice — topped by the seal of the Mayor of Boston no less! Banned in Boston — first they came for the Mooninites, then they came for the Boingers. — Want to defeat censorware?
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Seth Finkelstein / Infothought: WHY Boing Boing Is Censorware'd "Banned-In-Boston" from Dan's Guardian
BBC:
BA cuts Branson from Bond movie — British Airways has removed a shot of Virgin Atlantic boss Sir Richard Branson from the in-flight version of the James Bond movie Casino Royale. — Sir Richard was seen briefly in the original film, passing through an airport security scanner, but can only be seen from behind in the new edit.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Middio: Music Video Search Engine For YouTube — Middio is a new site, still in private beta, that's indexing music videos from YouTube and tagging them properly with the artist and song name. The search interface is good; finding a music video for a given artist takes just a moment …
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Amit Agarwal / Digital Inspiration:
Generate a Contact Us Form With Your Email Address, No Scripting — Do you want to add a simple "Contact Me" page on your blog but fear of spam is holding you from sharing your personal email address on the webpage ? No problem, check out Contactify. — Contactify creates …
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Google's privacy nightmare just starting — Nothing comes between my alogarithm and profits. Or so thought Google when it made a decision to buy DoubleClick for $3.1 billion dollars. Except they hadn't counted on pesky politicians and busy bodies who would make a stink about the privacy policies …
Pete Cashmore / Mashable!:
Web Startups and the Lying Liars that Lie About Them — Bloggers tell lies when they review startups? No, no - they just stretch the truth a little. OK, a lot. Inspired in part by Paul Kedrosky's Top Ten VC Lies, I whipped up 10 semi-truths that we tend to use on Mashable for the sake of brevity, hyperbole or just plain laziness.
Dave Winer / Scripting News:
First user-facing Twitter feature — While I was waiting for today's movie to start, watching some boring Coming Attractions, I was thinking about Twitter, and how to connect it to blogging software. — I went over the options, you could connect a RSS feed, so every post would be Twitted, immediately, as soon as it's on the web.
Abby Ellin / New York Times:
Auditioning in a Video Résumé — Dr. Ronald R. Rawitt, a New York City psychiatrist, is shy. When he gets nervous, he slips into "aha" and "um" mode. As someone who often lectures, this is a problem. It is also an issue because he is looking for work …
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