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Jason Calacanis / The Jason Calacanis Weblog:
WIRED journo won't do email interviews—ironic. — A WIRED journalist pinged me for some comments on Michael Arrington and his A-list blogger status. I told the journalist to send me the questions by email and he refused. He said Dave Winer did the same thing.
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Mark Evans, CrunchNotes, Technovia, Smalltalk Tidbits …, The Raw Feed and Michael Gartenberg
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Dylan Tweney / Epicenter:
Calacanis Won't Do Phone Interview — Cowardly — Jason McCabe Calacanis is complaining about a Wired reporter who wants to do an interview with him, but refuses to do it via email. He says it's "ironic" that a magazine covering the digital age refuses to use email for its interviews. — Ironic?
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Center for Citizen Media
Dave Winer / Scripting News:
Transcription errors — Jason Calacanis was contacted by the same reporter who contacted me. I'm mentioned in Jason's post, but somewhere along the line there was a transcription error. I did not offer to do the interview via email, I made a different offer. — Here's what I said: "Not generally doing interviews these days.
Business Wire:
Attorney for Fred Anderson Issues Statement Regarding Settlement of Claims with the SEC — SAN FRANCISCO—(BUSINESS WIRE)—The following statement is attributed to Mr. Fred Anderson's attorney Jerome Roth, a partner at Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP in San Francisco.
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John Murrell / Good Morning Silicon Valley:
Ex-Apple CFO: I cannot tell a lie — Steve did it — As anticipated, the SEC dropped the hammer today on two former Apple execs in connection with its investigation into stock-option backdating (see "And that's why Mr. Jobs' office has the Teflon wall covering and the extra insulation").
Howard Mintz / Mercury News:SEC closes in on ex-Apple lawyer
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Associated Press, Infinite Loop, Silicon Valley Watcher, The Apple Core, Cult of Mac, Apple 2.0, BARRONS.com and Between the Lines
Stephanie Pettinati / corp.casttv.com:
CastTV Closes Series A Led by DFJ — Video Search Pioneer CastTV Secures $3.1 Million Series A Funding Led by Draper Fisher Jurvetson — DFJ Managing Director Warren Packard Joins Board — San Francisco, CA - April 24, 2007, CastTV Inc. (www.CastTV.com), dedicated to building …
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Leelefever / Common Craft:
Video: RSS in Plain English — We made this video for our friends (and yours) that haven't yet felt the power of our friend the RSS reader. We want to convert people... if you know someone who would love RSS and hasn't yet tried it, point them here for 3.5 minutes of RSS in Plain English.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
PhotoBucket Back on MySpace (I Want To Know The Backstory) — A simple blog post on Photobucket tells us that the war is over - PhotoBucket videos are now allowed on MySpace again after a two week ban. — But the interesting part of this story is what I don't know yet - who blinked first and why.
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The Next Net, Mashable!, Good Morning Silicon Valley, Todd Watson, Data Center Knowledge and rexduffdixon.com
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Rachel Rosmarin / Forbes:
Big Bang For The MySpace Ad Buck — When a MySpace user talks, her friends listen. And when a MySpace user talks about your brand, your advertising dollars go far. — Those nuggets of wisdom are from a 65-page study commissioned by MySpace parent News Corp. (nyse: NWS - news - people ) …
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Lifehacker:
Hack Attack: Control multiple computers with a single keyboard and mouse — You don't need a hardware switch to share one keyboard and mouse amongst several different computers. All you need is the free, cross-platform application, Synergy. — Synergy connects one keyboard and mouse …
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Jeff Atwood / Coding Horror:
Where Are All the Open Source Billionaires? — Hugh MacLeod asks, if open source is so great, where are all the open source billionaires? … I can immediately think of one reason there aren't any open-source billionaires: — Most competition for open source software comes from other open source software.
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WebProNews
Jeremy Reimer / Ars Technica:
Apple sued over vague user interface patent — The patent holding company IP Innovation, LLC, has filed a lawsuit against Apple, Inc., that alleges the Cupertino-based company has engaged in "willful and deliberate" violations of US Patent #5,072,412. The patent describes …
Business Wire:
FogSHIELD Security Fogger Now Available; Stops a Burglary Before It Happens — An Enhancement to Existing Alarm Systems, FogSHIELD Rapidly Ejects Safe and Intense Fog in Under 3 Seconds; Eliminates a Burglar's Line of Sight and Helps Put an End to Costly Theft and Damage
David A. Utter / WebProNews:
Telegraph Cluelessly Attacks Google News Indexing — This time it is the UK-based Daily Telegraph that is complaining about a need to protect their content from search engines. — Which makes us wonder if they, like Copiepresse and AFP before them, are willfully clueless …
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Andrew Lipsman / comScore:
comScore Responds to IAB Open Letter — RESTON, VA, April 23, 2007 - comScore, a leader in measuring the digital world, today announced the following response to the recent IAB Open Letter: — comScore welcomes the objective outlined in the IAB Open Letter of achieving transparency …
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Digital Markets, Ars Technica, Terry Heaton's PoMo Blog, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, WebProNews, A VC and SEL
Karen / Official Google Blog:
New 3-D layers from AIA on Google Earth — Posted by RK Stewart, FAIA, President 2007, American Institute of Architects — Architects are pretty passionate about architecture — no surprise there. However, we've come to find that the American public is too.
