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Clay Shirky:
Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable — Back in 1993, the Knight-Ridder newspaper chain began investigating piracy of Dave Barry's popular column, which was published by the Miami Herald and syndicated widely. In the course of tracking down the sources of unlicensed distribution …
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Matt Richtel / New York Times:
3G Phones Exposing Networks' Last-Gen Technology — SAN FRANCISCO — Oh, the things modern mobile phones can do. They are music-playing, video-taking, direction-providing multimedia powerhouses. But many people have trouble getting them to perform their most basic functions, like making phone calls.
New York Times:
Weary of Looking for Work, Some Create Their Own — SAN FRANCISCO — Alex Andon, 24, a graduate of Duke University in biology, was laid off from a biotech company last May. For months he sought new work. Then, frustrated with the hunt, he turned to jellyfish.
Daniel Terdiman / CNET News:
News has a bright future, says Steven Johnson — AUSTIN, Texas—The future of news is not breadlines for journalists, a lack of reporting on politicians' scandals, and a dearth of coverage of what's really going on behind the lines of wars around the world.
Hutch Carpenter / I'm Not Actually a Geek:
Microblogging Will Marginalize Corporate Email — In case you missed it last week, Google CEO Eric Schmidt had this to say about the microblogging service Twitter: … At first blush, this seemed like an example of Google not ‘getting it’ when it comes to Twitter (see the comments to the linked blog post above).
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Whoa, Twitter Mania — Maybe it is all the TV news mentions, but Twitter is seeing the growth in U.S visitors to its site accelerating. In February, 4 million people in the U.S. visited the site, up from 2.6 million the month before, according to the latest data from comScore.
Anaesthetica / kuro5hin.org:
Attacked from Within — Traditional methods for protecting community from the effects of scale and poor behavior are now manifestly unfeasible. Raising barriers to entry, relying on the assumption that users will maintain only one registered account, and placing faith in the ability of admins …
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SiliconAngle
Kevin Michaluk / CrackBerry.com blogs:
Exclusive: New Live BlackBerry Niagara 9630 Photos! — w00t! Good way to start the weekend. Following up on the first real photos of the BlackBerry Niagara 9630 we recently dropped in the blogs, we've got MORE live photos for you, these ones a little bigger and also showing off the back of the device.
Dina Bass / Bloomberg:
‘Bridge to Microsoft’ Is One of Puget Sound Prizes in Stimulus — Microsoft Corp., which has $20 billion of cash in the bank, is among the first in the Puget Sound area to benefit from the investment in roads and bridges through President Barack Obama's stimulus plan.
Maydalene Salvador / TrendLabs:
TinyURL Phishing Becoming Popular — The language has changed but the modus operandi remains the same. Spammed messages, this time in Spanish, again use TinyURLs to mask the exact destination of the links they contain. Here's a sample email message: … The message above claims to be from Bancaja, a popular Spanish bank.
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PC World
Elinor Mills / CNET News:
Microsoft, researcher spar over security patch — On Tuesday, Microsoft released a patch for a hole in Windows 2000 and Server 2003 and 2008 that could allow an attacker to redirect network traffic to a malicious site that has been set to serve as a proxy. — The vulnerability …
Sam Diaz / Between the Lines:
HP imposes more salary cuts for EDS employees — HP said late Friday afternoon that it was temporarily cutting base salaries for EDS employees by an additional 10 percent beyond what was announced last month. On February 18, the company said it was cutting base pay across the board …
