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6:20 AM ET, March 16, 2008

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Dan Farber / Outside the Lines:
We'll miss Russell Shaw  —  One of our tech journalism colleagues, Russell Shaw, passed away on Friday, March 14.  He was on a reporting trip in San Jose, traveling from his home base of Portland, Ore. I knew Russell first as a blogger at ZDNet, where he covered broadband, VoIP, smartphones, and other topics.
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Andy Abramson / VoIP Watch:
Russell Shaw R.I.P.  —  It is with the most profound sadness that I have to report the the untimely passing of Russell Shaw, a blogger, journalist and friend.  —  Russell passed away suddenly in his hotel room in San Jose Thursday night or early Friday morning.
Enigmax / TorrentFreak:
Japanese ISPs Agree to Ban Pirates from the Internet  —  Following a huge increase in complaints from the music, movie and software industries, the four major Japanese ISP organizations have agreed that they will work with copyright holders to track down copyright infringing file-sharers and disconnect them from the internet.
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Daily Yomiuri Online:
Winny copiers to be cut off from Internet  —  The nation's four Internet provider organizations have agreed to forcibly cut the Internet connection of users found to repeatedly use Winny and other file-sharing programs to illegally copy gaming software and music, it was learned Friday.
Wired News:
Swedes Clear a Path for File Sharing Crackdown
Discussion: WebGuild
Agence France Presse:
Japan to strip Internet for illegal downloaders: report
Discussion: Digg
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Video Coming To Flickr Soon.  Really.  —  In mid 2005 I profiled YouTube for the first time.  As Steve Rubel noted, the best way to describe it was “like Flickr, but for videos.”  At the time few people saw the massive upside for YouTube, which was built completely on freely available Flash technology from Adobe.
Richard Morgan / New York Times:
A Crash Course in Online Gossip  —  THE post that appeared on a Juicy Campus message board on Feb. 25 was blunt and decidedly extracurricular.  —  It identified a Yale sophomore, by name, as having appeared in a pornographic movie, and linked to a Web site that showed him engaging in explicit acts with three other men.
Discussion: Gawker
Mathew / mathewingram.com/work:
Duncan Riley: Lessons in diplomacy  —  I was going to title this post “Duncan Riley: Lessons in how to be an a**hole,” but then I thought that would bring me down to the same level as Duncan, and I really don't want to do that.  I suppose it wouldn't be a weekend without a Techmeme bitchfest …
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Andy Beard / Niche Marketing:
FriendFeed Flaws - The Wrong Kind Of Attention Grabbing
Frederic / The Last Podcast:
It's a Bitchmeme for sure
Discussion: SheGeeks
Muhammad Saleem / muhammad.saleem:
friendfeed versus socialthing: why i'm backing socialthing  —  before you read my opinion on the two relatively similar services, i would recommend checking out read/writeweb's look at friendfeed versus socialthing.  while i think the article has a great overview and good points, i do have to disagree with the conclusion.
Discussion: GO2WEB20 Blog and Darren Herman
Ben DuBose / Los Angeles Times:
Piracy provision aims at universities  —  A House bill to make college more affordable contains a mandate that campuses develop plans to prevent illegal downloads.  Schools say they're a minor part of the problem and unfairly targeted.  —  WASHINGTON — Colleges and universities that take part …
Garett Rogers / Googling Google:
Early St. Patrick's Day easter egg on Google Maps  —  Street View in Google Maps now shows a tiny leprechaun instead of the classic yellow guy — it's a bit early, but you can only assume this has to do with St. Patrick's Day on Monday.  A rainbow follows him when you drag the little guy around the map too.
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Google Blogoscoped:   A Very Special Google Docs Feature (Potential Spoiler)
Lisa Hoover / The Unofficial Apple Weblog:
iPods rock the Space Shuttle  —  Eagle-eyed reader Walker was perusing hi-res photos of the Space Shuttle Endeavour (which is circling the planet at this moment, docked to the International Space Station in low-earth orbit) when he spotted an iPod through the crew cabin window.
Discussion: Cult of Mac and About Mobility
Dan Farber / Outside the Lines:
Revisiting Apple's iPhone strategy  —  In the post I wrote about Rich Miner of Google saying that the Android mobile software stack will gain more users than the iPhone, several people commented.  The general consensus is that Apple is the BMW of the personal computer industry and is the standard …
 
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Ustream.tv may turn down Microsoft's $50 million
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Apple to 100,000 iPhone developers: don't call us, we'll call you
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