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Tim Windsor / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Yet another reminder that users are in charge: the DiggBar backlash — If you needed any further proof that this is an age driven by users much more than publishers, look no further than what's happening right now with Digg.com, a site you probably think of as a stand-in for all that is user-generated, unedited and anarchic.
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Joshua Topolsky:
Why Engadget is blocking the DiggBar — Some of you may be wondering why you're not seeing the latest piece of Digg's news-puzzle — the DiggBar — on Engadget. Let me explain. — If you've seen the tool in action, then you know that it appears to offer an easy way to read an article …
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ToMuse.com, Digital Inspiration, Mashable!, The Blog Herald, FarukAt.e, webmonkey, WinExtra and digg.com
Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
How to Sell Your Soul on Twitter and Who's Buying — What are you doing? No what are you doing Apple, Skype, Flip, StubHub and Box.net?? These popular companies just couldn't resist paying off Twitter users to put advertisements into their Twitter streams using the new pay-per-tweet service Magpie.
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CenterNetworks, BNET Media, Shoemoney, Alec Saunders SquawkBox, Weblogsky and The Noisy Channel, Thanks:mrinaldesai
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Nick / Rough Type:
Google in the middle — Three truths: — 1. Google is a middleman made of software. It's a very, very large middleman made of software. Think of what Goliath or the Cyclops or Godzilla would look like if they were made of software. That's Google. — 2. The middleman acts in the middleman's interest.
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Mathew Ingram / Nieman Journalism Lab:Why Nick Carr is wrong on Google as a middleman for news
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Nick O'Neill / All Facebook:
Facebook Starts Recommending Branded Public Profiles — Last night Facebook turned on a feature which will surely build some buzz: the recommendation of brands as friends. Previously Twitter launched a user recommendation system which generated a lot of controversy as recommended users …
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Inside Facebook
Matt Richtel / New York Times:
Tech Recruiting Clashes with Immigration Rules — MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Where's Sanjay? — The question comes from one of dozens of engineers around a crowded conference table at Google. They have gathered to discuss how to build easy-to-use maps that could turn hundreds of millions …
Jennifer / Electronic Frontier Foundation:
Federal Authority Over the Internet? The Cybersecurity Act of 2009 — There's a new bill working its way through Congress that is cause for some alarm: the Cybersecurity Act of 2009 (PDF summary here), introduced by Senators Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) and Olympia Snowe (D-ME).
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Anne Eisenberg / New York Times:
On the Lookout, With a Digital Security Camera — STANDARD surveillance cameras guard homes, businesses and public spaces around the clock, but they do the job imperfectly: fish-eye lenses can distort the image, and pan-and-tilt cameras may point the wrong way at a crucial moment.
Caroline McCarthy / CNET News:
iLike changes Facebook tune to ‘Music’ — iLike, a social music service that has created one of the more popular applications for Facebook's platform, has changed the app's name to the more straightforward “Music.” — “Over 40 million music fans like you have used iLike to share music …
Eric Brewer / The Raw Story:
White House: Obama ‘absolutely’ stands behind effort to throw out warrantless wiretapping suit — President Barack Obama endorsed a Justice Department move to dismiss a case in which the National Security Agency is being sued over its warrantless wiretapping program, because he believes …
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Political Punch
PC World:
Netbooks and Linux: A Complicated Story — Over the past few days there's been a raft of stories about how the Linux netbook market share is not as healthy as it used to be. — Up until now it's been believed that the emerging netbook market (arguably the first new PC hardware platform for decades) …
Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:
Steve Jobs Still Running The Apple Show — Here's a relief: Steve Jobs is still making product decisions at Apple, people familiar with the matter tell the Wall Street Journal. And at least some folks at the company still expect him to return in June. — Chief Operating Officer Tim Cook runs …
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Fred / A VC:
Selling The Company Back To The Founders — I read with interest the Brad Stone piece in the NY Times this morning suggesting that Niklas and Janus might buy Skype back from eBay. I think this is a wonderful idea and I hope it happens. — Back when eBay bought Skype in 2005, I was skeptical that eBay was the right home for Skype.
Brian Solis / TechCrunch:
Can the Statusphere Save Journalism? — Recently, I enjoyed a refreshing and invigorating dinner with Walt Mossberg. While we casually discussed our most current endeavors and experiences, the discussion shifted to deep conversation about the future of journalism in the era of socialized media …
