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5:00 PM ET, May 2, 2007

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Kevin Rose / Digg the Blog:
Digg This: 09-f9-11-02-9d-74-e3-5b-d8-41-56-c5- 63-56-88-c0  —  Today was an insane day.  And as the founder of Digg, I just wanted to post my thoughts...  In building and shaping the site I've always tried to stay as hands on as possible.  We've always given site moderation (digging/burying) power to the community.
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Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Digg Gives Into User Revolt; Are Those DMCA Takedown Notices Even Valid?  —  After a grassroots revolt by Digg users, Digg has decided to stop censoring posts about an HD-DVD decryption number used by the industry-backed Advanced Access Content System to protect HD-DVDs.
Gizmodo:
Geeks Will Not Be Silenced: Breaking: Digg Riot in Full Effect Over Pulled HD-DVD Key Story  —  The power of Web 2. is in full effect over at Digg, where users are revolting over Digg's decision to pull a story (that netted over 15,000 diggs) and reportedly boot a user for posting …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Digg Surrenders to Mob  —  To say what happened today on Digg was a "user revolt" is an understatement.  The Digg team deleted a story that linked to the decryption key for HD DVDs after receiving a take down demand and all hell broke loose.  More stories appeared and were deleted, and users posting the stories were suspended.
Pete Cashmore / Mashable!:
Fundraising for the Digg Lawsuit
Discussion: rexduffdixon.com
Andy Beal / Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim:
Kevin Rose Hands Over Digg Control
Steve Jobs / Apple:
A Greener Apple  —  Apple has been criticized by some environmental organizations for not being a leader in removing toxic chemicals from its new products, and for not aggressively or properly recycling its old products. … Cadmium  —  Hexavalent Chromium  —  Decabromodiphenyl Ether
Business Wire:
Time Warner Inc. Reports First Quarter 2007 Results  —  NEW YORK—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Time Warner Inc. (NYSE:TWX - News) today reported financial results for its first quarter ended March 31, 2007.  —  In making the announcement, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Dick Parsons said: "Time Warner is off to a strong start this year.
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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
AOL's advertising alive and kicking
Discussion: IP Democracy
Bloomberg:
Cablevision Agrees to Be Taken Private By Dolans (Update2)
Discussion: IP Democracy
Teresa Fausti / clearwire.com:
FCC Approves First WIMAX-CLASS Laptop Card to be Offered by Clearwire  —  Approval Marks Major Milestone for Release of Product Later this Year that Facilitates Greater Portability and Mobility on Clearwire's U.S. Network  —  Helen.Chung@clearwire.com  —  Clearwire Corporation (NASDAQ …
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Dan Nystedt / InfoWorld:
First WiMax laptop card approved by FCC  —  San Francisco (IDGNS) - Regulators have approved the first WiMax wireless broadband laptop PC card to be offered by Clearwire, and it should be available to users later this year, the company said Tuesday.  —  The U.S. Federal Communications Commission approved …
Discussion: Gadget Lab
Bloomberg:
Dow Jones Holders Say Murdoch Bid May Trigger Auction (Update2)  —  Dow Jones & Co. shareholders say Rupert Murdoch's $5 billion takeover bid will spark an auction of the 125-year-old newspaper publisher.  —  ``We're in the first inning,'' said Lawrence J. Haverty Jr. …
Newlaunches.com:
Business 2.0-the Business magazine should practice what it preaches  —  You remember the time when mom used to tell not to talk on the phone while ironing clothes lest you make a mistake and burn yourself.  And then one day she forgot to practice what she was preaching and...!
Discussion: Download Squad and Startup Meme
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CmdrTaco / Slashdot:
Tech Magazine Loses June Issue, No Backup
Discussion: CrunchGear
Fred / A VC:
The Mid Life Entrepreneur Crisis  —  I have two meetings this week with guys in their early to mid 40s that are two of the best entrepreneurs I've ever worked with.  Both are asking me the same thing - "what should I do next?"  —  There are questions of motivations, work/life balance …
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Hey Microsoft, forget MIX, focus on Mobiles  —  It is hardly a surprise that the more en vogue and exotic MIX '07 is overshadowing a strategically more important event hosted by Microsoft - the 2007 Mobile and Embedded Devices Conference also being held in Las Vegas.
Discussion: FierceWireless
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Microsoft:   Robbie Bach: Microsoft Mobile & Embedded DevCon 2007
Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land:
Yang & Filo Sumo Each Other To Save The World  —  Will wrestle for climate change from Yahoo's Yodel Anecdotal blog covers that the co-founders of Yahoo put on sumo suits to wrestle each other.  Jerry Yang and David Filo agreed to this match after Yahoos did their part to their impact on the environment.
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Nicki Dugan / Yodel Anecdotal:
Will wrestle for climate change
Discussion: InsideGoogle
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:
Windows Live Calendar, Presence coming soon to a dev platform near you  —  With its official announcement of the "Windows Live platform beta" at Mix '07 this week, Microsoft made available to developers a number of application programming interfaces (APIs) and controls upon which they can build their own applications and mashups.
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Kip Kniskern / LiveSide:   Google Calendar catches MSN's - Or Where oh where is the Windows Live Calendar?
Mike Shields / Mediaweek:
Eisner's Prom Queen Seeing Success on Web  —  Less than halfway through its 80-day run, Prom Queen, the daily teen-aimed online soap opera launched by Michael Eisner's new production firm, is showing signs of becoming a modest hit, if short of an Internet sensation thus far.
Discussion: Mashable!
dive into mark:
Silly season  —  Springtime means conference time, which means it's silly season on the web again.  Adobe introduced Apollo, their latest attempt to recreate the web in their own image.  Apollo is based on Adobe's own markup language, Adobe's own runtime, Adobe's own graphics and animation framework …
 
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Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson / Financial Times:
Boo.com given a new lease of life
Carlo Longino / Techdirt:
Media Companies Still Seeking Double Standard On Consolidation
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Paul Miller / Engadget:
NVIDIA's overclocked GeForce 8800 Ultra debuts
Discussion: TechSpot News
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The Battle to Control Obama's Myspace
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CAN GATSB BE GREAT?
Noah Shachtman / Wired News:
Army Squeezes Soldier Blogs, Maybe to Death
Maximus / Just Another Mobile Phone Blog:
World's first mobile phone with a 7.1 speaker system and Vista
Anne Broache / CNET News.com:
Vonage requests retrial in Verizon patent dispute
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Apple plugs QuickTime zero-day flaw
 

 
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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”

Todd Spangler / Variety:
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