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12:50 AM ET, November 14, 2007

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Kevin Rose / Digg the Blog:
View Wall Street Journal Online articles from Digg  —  The Wall Street Journal Online is adding Digg buttons across the entire site, and you'll now have full (free) access to the articles submitted to Digg.  The Digg buttons have started appearing on WSJ.com articles tonight.  —  Digg on.
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Caroline McCarthy / CNET News.com:
'The Wall Street Journal' digs Digg.  Should we read into this?  —  Kevin Rose, founder of social news aggregator Digg, posted a quick blog entry on Tuesday night about his site's new relationship with Rupert Murdoch's latest accessory, The Wall Street Journal.
Discussion: Webware.com and Lost Remote
Richard Pérez-Peña / New York Times:   Murdoch Said to Stress Free Access to Wall St. Journal's Web Site
Joe Strupp / Editor and Publisher:
'WSJ' Executive: Murdoch's Free Web Site Talk is 'Jumping The Gun'
Discussion: rexblog.com and paidContent.org
Saul Hansell / Bits:
Inbox 2.0: Yahoo and Google to Turn E-Mail Into a Social Network  —  Ignore Orkut, OpenSocial, Yahoo Mash and Yahoo 360.  Google and Yahoo have come up with new and very similar plans to respond to the challenge from MySpace and Facebook: They hope to turn their e-mail systems …
Philipp Lenssen / Google Blogoscoped:
Google Redefines the Clickable AdSense Area  —  Similar to what Google has been doing with ads in search results, they also now restricted the clickable area in AdSense (the kind of Google ads webmasters can include on their pages).  Instead of allowing a click to be triggered …
Discussion: TechCrunch, Googlified and Valleywag
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Automattic Founders To Take Big Money Off The Table  —  It didn't make a lot of sense when we heard that Automattic, the company that created the Wordpress.com blogging platform and oversees the Wordpress.org open source project, turned down a $200 million buyout offer.
Discussion: Changing Way
PRWeb:
Bebo Launches 'Open Media' A New Vision for Social Media and Entertainment  —  Bebo, the global social network, opens its doors to media brands, deepening user engagement with popular entertainment.  Launch partners include global media brands CBS, MTV Networks, BBC, Turner, ESPN, Yahoo!, Next New Networks, Crackle and more.
USA Today:
Marvel Comics shows its marvelous colors in online archive  —  The comic book industry makes a long-delayed step into cyberspace today when Marvel Comics unveils the industry's first online archive of more than 2,500 back issues, including the first appearances of Spider-Man, the X-Men and the Incredible Hulk.
Discussion: Things That
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David Kaplan / paidContent.org:
Marvel To Unveil Subscription-based Online Comics Outlet
Owen Thomas / Valleywag:
Bank intern busted by Facebook [Your Privacy Is An Illusion]  —  Who says Facebook is the province of the young?  Increasingly, the 30something bosses of naive recent college grads are proving adept at turning the social network against its earliest adopters.
Adam Pash / Lifehacker:
Build a Hackintosh Mac for Under $800 [Hack Attack]  —  If the high price tag for Apple hardware has kept you from buying a Mac but you're willing to roll up your sleeves and get adventurous, you can build your own "Hackintosh"—a PC that runs a patched version of OS X Leopard.  What?!, you say.
Peter Finn / Washington Post:
Russia Casts A Selective Net in Piracy Crackdown  —  Political Bias Alleged In Pursuit of Groups Using Illicit Software  —  The newspaper Novaya Gazeta, one of the last outposts of critical journalism in Russia, suspended publication of its regional edition in the southern city of Samara …
Janet Morrissey / New York Times:
AT&T to Sell Equipment to Monitor Workplaces  —  AT&T plans to introduce a nationwide program today that gives owners of small- and medium-size businesses some of the same tools big security companies offer for monitoring employees, customers and operations from remote locations.
Oracle:
Daily Agenda  —  Sun Microsystems, Inc. - Jonathan Schwartz  —  Oracle OpenWorld Appreciation Event - Cow Palace  —  Social Networking, Web 2.0, and Flexibility Point the Way to Fusion Applications  —  The future of Oracle applications is centered on a deceptively simple strategy …
Stefano Mazzocchi / Stefano's Linotype:
Dalvik: how Google routed around Sun's IP-based licensing restrictions on Java ME  —  Sun released their "free java" source code under the GPLv2 to both win the free software crowd and capture peripheral innovation and bug fixing from the community.  For the java standard edition (aka …
Mark Hendrickson / TechCrunch:
eSnips Takes Hint from Online Dating, Debuts "Social DNA"  —  Looks like tonight's theme is social discovery.  Israel-based eSnips, a media-centric social network we reviewed over a year ago, is releasing a new feature called "Social DNA" meant to help you discover people similar to yourself.
Discussion: Mashable!
Kevin J. Martin / New York Times:
The Daily Show  —  IN many towns and cities, the newspaper is an endangered species.  At least 300 daily papers have stopped publishing over the past 30 years.  Those newspapers that have survived are struggling financially.  Newspaper circulation has declined steadily for more than 10 years.
 
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Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:
Report: One-third of businesses to begin Vista deployments by mid-2008
Rafe Needleman / Webware.com:
SIX APART IS FIXING FORUMS
Discussion: TechCrunch
Flickr Blog:
Holy moly!  —  yukesmooks is probably very surprised …
Mike Yamamoto / Crave: The gadget blog:
The perfect exercise machine for slave labor
Discussion: Gizmodo
Josh Catone / Read/WriteWeb:
Joyent Announces Free Hosting For Facebook App Developers
Ethan Kaplan / blackrimglasses.com:
Mainstream journalism, blogs, exclusives and the techmeme effect
Elsa Wenzel / CNET News.com:
IBM updates free Symphony suite
Discussion: InfoWorld
Jon Stokes / Ars Technica:
Multicore, 64-bit x86 shakes up Top 500 Supercomputer List
 Earlier Items: 
Mark Ward / BBC:
Fears over online banking checks
Discussion: Threat Chaos
Eric Bangeman / Ars Technica:
Infringement in perspective: major movie bust fine dwarfed by RIAA tab
Discussion: Associated Press
Ryan Block / Engadget:
The new Zune: better than before, but not quite good enough
Electronista:
Mac claims more Japan OS sales than Windows
Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:
iPod gets exploded, trapped in resin
San Francisco Chronicle:
Now the other Google founder is planning a secret wedding
Tom Espiner / CNET News.com:
Microsoft exec calls XP hack 'frightening'