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7:00 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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Liz Gannes / NewTeeVee:
Could Digg Revolt Come to Video Sites?
Discussion: GigaOM and parislemon
Pete Cashmore / Mashable!:
Fundraising for the Digg Lawsuit
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
Yahoo! Search Blog:
Introducing Robots-Nocontent for Page Sections  —  We recently returned from our annual rendezvous at SES New York and, like always, learned a lot from our webmasters.  The 'Robots.txt Summit' generated some healthy discussions and support for adding a tag to parts of a page that do not relate …
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Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:   Yahoo Supports New Robots-Nocontent Tag To Block Indexing Within A Page
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
Cynthia Brumfield / IP Democracy:
Contrary View on AOL — Key Stats Trending Down
Discussion: GigaOM
xkcd.com:
Online Communities (click for full version)  —  Comics I enjoy:  —  Dinosaur Comics, A Softer World, Perry Bible Fellowship, Copper, Questionable Content, Achewood, Wondermark, Indexed,  —  Buttercup Festival  —  Warning: this comic occasionally contains strong language …
Discussion: AppScout and Tech_Space
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
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. …
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!
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...!
Nikhil Pahwa / contentSutra.com:
Social Networking Site Minglebox Receives $7 Million In Funding Fron Sequoia Capital  —  You're reading it here first: Indian social networking site Minglebox has received $7 million in funding from Sequoia Capital India.  Minglebox was started by three IIT Delhi alumni - Kavita Iyer …
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 …
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 …
Discussion: Smalltalk Tidbits …
Anne Broache / CNET News.com:
New Net radio fee collections delayed  —  The U.S. Copyright Royalty Board has pushed back the date on which a contentious fee hike for Internet radio broadcasters takes effect.  —  In a 32-page final rule (PDF) formally published Monday, the three-judge panel within the Library …
Discussion: TechSpot News
Valleywag:
The Chart: Reality check on online video  —  Reality check on online video  —  In an interview with Doubleclick's chief executive, in today's Wall Street Journal, there's some interesting data.  David Rosenblatt, in the process of selling the online advertising broker to Google …
Discussion: HipMojo.com
Anne Broache / CNET News.com:
Vonage requests retrial in Verizon patent dispute  —  A pivotal U.S. Supreme Court ruling designed to make it easier to challenge obvious patents prompted Vonage on Tuesday to ask for a new trial in an ongoing dispute with Verizon.  —  One day after the high court released …
 
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Jeremy Reimer / Ars Technica:
Microsoft drops hints about Internet Explorer 8
Lifehacker:
Geek To Live: Getting Things Done with Google Notebook
Staci D. Kramer / paidContent.org:
Peter Gabriel Tries Ad-Supported Music Downloads; Launches We7
Discussion: Profy.Com
Ben Ames / InfoWorld:
Intel cutting up to 1,000 jobs in New Mexico
Discussion: Gizmodo and Neowin.net
Greg Sterling / Search Engine Land:
Citysearch Gets New Look And Video
Manoj Jasra / Web Analytics World:
Blogging Contest at Web Analytics World
MediaShift:
DIGGING DEEPER 'Mr. Magazine' Believes We'll Always Crave Ink on Paper
Adam Ostrow / Mashable!:
10 Awesome Things Built on the Facebook API
 Earlier Items: 
Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson / Financial Times:
Boo.com given a new lease of life
Carlo Longino / Techdirt:
Media Companies Still Seeking Double Standard On Consolidation
Discussion: TBO.com
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:
Windows Live Calendar, Presence coming soon to a dev platform near you
Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land:
Yang & Filo Sumo Each Other To Save The World
Discussion: Yodel Anecdotal
Seamusmccauley / Virtual Economics:
"ITV will keep control online"
Micah L. Sifry / techPresident:
The Battle to Control Obama's Myspace
Discussion: The Bivings Report
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
 

 
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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:
YouTuber MrBeast announces a deal with Prime Video for Beast Games, a reality-competition show with 1,000 contestants, promising the winner a $5M cash prize

 
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