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Mark Evans:
Why Original Blog Thought is So Difficult — Over the past few days, I've been thinking about Ed Bott's recent rant about Techmeme being a “template for a gazillion me-too bloggers who manage to write a dozen posts a day without ever expressing an original thought”.
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TomsTechBlog.com, broadstuff, Smalltalk Tidbits …, Joe Duck, The Last Podcast and Alec Saunders .LOG
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Dave Winer / Scripting News:
Proof that the end is near — Over on Twitter I am unceremoniously blocking all tech industry superdelegates. — Let me explain. — Imagine if the tech industry was the Democratic Party, then the insider's insiders would be the superdelegates. The people who talk about people talking …
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Six Months In, And 600 Posts Later . . . The Worlds Of Blogging and Journalism Collide (In My Brain) — Blink, and six months go by. Ever since I made the move from Time Inc. to TechCrunch, my life has become a whirlwind of nonstop blog posting, little sleep, and a growing addiction to news feeds, Techmeme, and my Blackberry.
Cali / GeekBrief.TV:
Introducing Woopra. You're Gonna Want It. — Downloadable Formats — At WordCamp Dallas today, I was introduced to a live analytics tool called Woopra. It didn't make me cry, but it did awaken my inner Scoble. We whipped out the camera and went to work.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Stats Junkies Get Another Fix: Woopra — Want to talk to the people visiting your blog in real time via a chat request? That's just one of the features of new stats/analytics startup Woopra. Think Google Analytics or Nuconomy, but in real time. — The product includes real time statistics …
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The iPhone Project:
The iPhone: finally PWNED — As of tomorrow, Sunday, March 30′th, the long awaited project iPhone PWNED will be available to the public! - it's what we've seen on YouTube and many of us have disbelieved. However, it is real and allows for custom unsigned firmware to be flashed on to the iPhone.
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Loïc Le Meur / Loic Le Meur Blog:
My social map is totally decentralized but I want it back on my blog — Here is a pic of my social map and the social software I use all the time for some (Twitter, Seesmic, Flickr, my blog) and some very occasionally. — We used to have our social online presence very centralized, for me it was my blog.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
FriendFeed, The Centralized Me, and Data Portability — It's definitely FriendFeed month in Silicon Valley. The company, founded by ex-Googlers, let you aggregate information and activity streams from all of the various services that you use on the internet - Flickr photos, YouTube videos …
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CenterNetworks, MEDIABLITZ 2.0, Paying Attention, Oliver Thylmann's Thoughts and The Real McCrea
Dan Farber / Outside the Lines:
Microhoo: When will the mating dance end? — The Microsoft-Yahoo mating dance or proposed shotgun wedding continues to drag out. Microsoft persists in saying nice things about Yahoo and outlining the reasons why the acquisition of $45 to $50 billion still makes sense (going after the high profit margin money with search and ads).
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Haroon Malik / Gizmodo:
Windows XP Eee PC Available at Best Buy in April, Pricing Stays Sweet — Our buddies at LaptopMag have just published details about the long-rumored, US bound, Windows XP Eee PC. The Windows XP version will go on sale at Best Buy for $399, and you won't have to wait too long either, as Asus expects the systems to ship on April 9th.
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Michael Cieply / New York Times:
Hollywood Producer Set to Make Shows for Xbox — LOS ANGELES — Microsoft, seeking to expand offerings on its Xbox 360 console, has reached an agreement with a company headed by Peter Safran, the veteran Hollywood producer and talent manager, to produce original shows for distribution on the system.
Adam Ostrow / Mashable!:
Source: Buzznet Acquires Qloud's Network of Music Apps — A source close to the company tells us that Qloud, the music application maker backed by Steve Case, has been sold to Buzznet for a “little over their last round valuation.” This news comes on the heels of Buzznet raising …
Brad Linder / Download Squad:
Windows Search 4.0 vs. Google Desktop 5.5 — Microsoft released an updated version of Windows Search, its free desktop search client the other day. And while there are dozens of excellent desktop search clients, including a few good free ones, it seems inevitable that people are going to compare Windows Search to Google Desktop.
Fred / A VC:
Uncertainty — I've been having a running debate with Henry Blodget in the comments section of this Alley Insider post on their effort to create a list of the “World's 25 Most Valuable Startups”. I think these lists are dumb (including the SA100 which was an attempt to list the “players” on the internet scene in NYC).
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Timothy B. Lee / Ars Technica:
The tech world's lesson for newspapers, traditional media — The New Yorker recently ran a characteristically loquacious essay about the decline of the newspaper and what it means for the future of journalism. The author, Eric Alterman, concludes that we're beginning an era of …
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