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7:50 AM ET, March 8, 2009

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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Eric Schmidt Tells Charlie Rose Google Is “Unlikely” To Buy Twitter And Wants To Turn Phones Into TVs  —  It must be Google Week on Charlie Rose.  Thursday, Rose interviewed product chief Marissa Mayer, and last night he had an hour-long conversation with CEO Eric Schmidt (embedded here, with a full transcript below).
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Nick / Rough Type:
Google's chief executive worrywart  —  Shortly after my article “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” came out in the Atlantic last summer, Google CEO Eric Schmidt pooh-poohed my suggestion that the fast-paced distractions of the Net are reducing our capacity for deep reading and deep thinking.
Lidija Davis / ReadWriteWeb:
Verizon Customers - Just Say No!  —  It is easier to seek forgiveness than it is to get permission according to Verizon, which has once again shown us what large corporations should not be doing when it comes to customer service.  —  David Weinberger, co-author of The Cluetrain Manifesto …
Discussion: delawareonline, Thanks:brickandclick
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Davidw / Joho the Blog:   Tales of data pirates: Opting out of Verizon's open-ended sharing
Andrew Keen / The Great Seduction:
We are all Scoble now  —  Last night A-list twhirler-in-chief Loic Le Meur, twittering from a Burger King dinner with some of Silicon Valley's most illustrious networkers, sent out an intriguing couple of tweets:  — “There are very few people like me with so many friends and followers” just said @scobleizer
Discussion: Gawker and Susan Mernit's Blog
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols / Computerworld Blogs:
Google CEO hints Google/Linux netbooks may be coming  —  People have been speculating about Google getting into the desktop business ever since Good OS, an Ubuntu-based Linux built around online Google applications showed up in 2007.  Then, the rumor-mill really got churning when it was shown …
Discussion: OSNews, Liliputing and digg.com
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Who Needs Big Music on YouTube?  The Best Video of 2009 is Homegrown  —  YouTube and the big music labels are spending a lot of time and effort trying to figure out how make money off of music videos.  If only they were as inventive as Kutiman.  —  Who?  I hadn't heard of Kutiman until today, either.
Kasper Jade / AppleInsider:
A peek at Apple's new QuickTime X interface  —  A widely reported interface overhaul making its debut in early betas of QuickTime X Player distributed with pre-releases of Apple's Snow Leopard operating system this week is reportedly not much to write home about.
Discussion: MacRumors
Ken Gagne / Computerworld Blogs:
AT&T predicted the future.  Can Microsoft?  —  The past century was filled with optimistic predictions of how quickly technology would progress.  Flying cars?  Moon colonies?  Robotic servants to free humanity of day-to-day drudgery?  None of that's happened yet, much to our ancestors' chagrin.
Discussion: 9 to 5 Mac
John Naughton / Guardian:
How Kindle brought technology to book  —  Know the old joke about the drunk and the lost keys?  A policeman finds a guy scrabbling under a lamp-post and asks him what he's doing.  “Looking for my keys,” he replies.  “Is this where you dropped them?” asks the cop.
Evan Williams / New York Times:
For Twitter C.E.O., Well-Orchestrated Accidents  —  I GREW up on a farm in Nebraska, where we grew mostly corn and soybeans.  During the summers I was responsible for making sure the crops were irrigated.  —  After high school, I enrolled at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, but I stayed only a year and a half.
James Urquhart / CNET News:
Has ‘cloud-computing’ lost its VC luster?  —  I've had a few discussions with venture capitalists of late regarding the assignment of the “cloud” label to start-ups pitching everything from hardware to—believe it or not—downloadable software clients.  —  It seems that just about every pitch …
Dana Blankenhorn / Open Source:
Who should Software Freedom sue on FAT32?  —  Once upon a time I was going to be a lawyer.  —  One reason I didn't go that way was to avoid running down rabbit holes like the one our own Jason Perlow offered us Thursday.  (This puzzle called Down the Rabbit Hole is now on sale over at Legendary Toys.)
Discussion: tecosystems and The Register
 
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Chris Ziegler / Engadget:
Verizon's global 3G modem from ZTE spotted in FCC
Brad Stone / New York Times:
Police Take the Fight Onto the Web
Paul Graham:
How to Be an Angel Investor
Thanks:atul
Julie Jacobson / CE Pro:
CableCard Diagnostics Comes to Windows Media Center at EHX
Discussion: Engadget
 Earlier Items: 
Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Twitter To Start Serving Local News To Users?
Discussion: Neowin.net and digg.com, Thanks:atul
Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:
Another AOL Layoff This Week?
Discussion: SiliconAngle
Jeff Atwood / Coding Horror:
HTML Validation: Does It Matter?
 

 
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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”

Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
Authentic Brands licenses Sports Illustrated's publishing rights to The Players' Tribune owner Minute Media for 10 years, with plans to keep the print edition

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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