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4:35 PM ET, May 17, 2009

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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Jump Into The Stream  —  Once again, the Internet is shifting before our eyes.  Information is increasingly being distributed and presented in real-time streams instead of dedicated Web pages.  The shift is palpable, even if it is only in its early stages.  Web companies large and small are embracing this stream.
Discussion: Opinionated, Thanks:bobcaswell
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John Borthwick / Silicon Alley Insider:
The Rise Of Social Distribution Networks
Thanks:atul
Kos / Daily Kos:
Clinging to a dead biz model for dear life  —  For two lawyers who supposedly specialize in media and First Amendment law, these guys were so full of stupid I'm embarrassed for them.  You see, they have just the legislative solutions to the newspaper industry's ills!
Thanks:atul
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Danny Sullivan / Daggle:
Dammit, I'm A Journalist, Not A Blogger: Time For Online Journalists To Unite?  —  The public relations war of newspapers against both Google and blogs shows no signs of ebbing.  Today, we get a proposal that newspapers deserve special laws to protect them.
Thanks:atul
Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:
First, stop the lawyers  —  There's some dangerously wrong …
Discussion: Techgeist
Jim / craigslist blog:
Target Practice  —  South Carolina Attorney General Henry McMaster today announced that our recent improvements, which go far beyond measures he himself personally endorsed with his own signature six months ago, not only aren't good enough, but actually require a criminal investigation:
Discussion: Pulse2
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Jon Skillings / CNET News:
So.  Carolina eyes ‘criminal investigation’ of Craigslist  —  The attorney general of South Carolina is ready to launch a criminal investigation of Craigslist in connection with erotic ads appearing on the classified ads Web site.  —  Attorney General Henry McMaster had given Craigslist …
Steven A. Ballmer / New York Times:
Meetings, Version 2.0, at Microsoft  —  This interview of Steven A. Ballmer, the chief executive of Microsoft, was conducted and condensed by Adam Bryant.  —  Q. Are there areas you want to improve as a leader?  —  A. I race too much.  My brain races too much, so even if I've listened …
Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:
Facebook raises $150 million more to cash out employees  —  Facebook has almost finished raising $150 million in capital, in an extraordinary move by the company to buy out shares of hundreds of regular employees.  —  Hundreds of the Palo Alto, Calif.'s employees have now toiled at the company …
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
The Music Store Apple Forgot About  —  Last January Apple released iLife '09, the latest addition to its highly regarded multimedia suite that ships with every new Mac.  At the time, much of the media attention went to iPhoto and iMovie, which introduced impressive facial recognition and video stabilization respectively.
Discussion: digg.com
JKK / jkkmobile:
Asus Eee T91 dissected  —  Lets see...  SSD is 50mm so we should be able to use 3rd party SSDs for Dell mini 9.  —  Right from GPS board is place for SIM card reader.. so if you swap GPS card with 3G + GPS and solder the SIM slot you get internal 3G pretty easily.
Negatendo.Net:
Wolfram|Alpha and Screen Scraping  —  Perhaps the oddest thing about Wolfram|Alpha is that the text that appears in query results is not text at all, but is in fact made up of dynamically generated GIFs:  —  The Wolfram|Alpha FAQ claims: … Of course, a sentiment like that would make any web designer jump off a bridge.
Motoko Rich / New York Times:
Steal This Book (for $9.99)  —  Just how much is a good read worth?  —  David Baldacci, the best-selling thriller author, learned what some of his fans think when “First Family,” his latest novel, went on sale last month.  Amazon initially charged a little over $15 for a version for its Kindle reading device, and readers revolted.
Discussion: TeleRead
PC World:
Intel Could Face Civil Charges in Europe  —  Siobhan Chapman, Computerworld UK  —  Intel's record $1.44 million fine for breaching competition laws will open the floodgates for civil actions, a competition lawyer has said.  —  The European Commission issued its biggest ever competition fine to Intel …
Discussion: Pulse2 and CNET News
 
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Kevin Kelleher / GigaOM:
Tech IPOs Are Back — But Only for Those That Don't Need Cash
Thanks:atul
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Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
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Discussion: Network Solutions and ReadWriteWeb, Thanks:atul
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Is Sequoia China in Trouble?
Thanks:atul
Nicholas Kolakowski / eWeek:
Google Outage Shows the Cloud May Not Be Enterprise-Ready
Discussion: HighTouch
 

 
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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”

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Todd Spangler / Variety:
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