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6:20 AM ET, September 6, 2009

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Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
I don't feel safe with Wordpress, hackers broke in and took things  —  A few weeks ago some hackers broke into my blog here (this was before 2.8.4 was released).  At first I thought they just left some porn sites in a couple of blog entries.  So we upgraded Wordpress (I was on 2.7x back then).
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Matt / WordPress:
How to Keep WordPress Secure  —  Filed under Development, Security.  —  A stitch in time saves nine.  I couldn't sew my way out of a bag, but it's true advice for bloggers as well — a little bit of work on an upgrade now saves a lot of work fixing something later.
Matthew Moore / Telegraph:
50 things that are being killed by the internet  —  The internet has wrought huge changes on our lives - both positive and negative - in the fifteen years since its use became widespread.  —  Tasks that once took days can be completed in seconds, while traditions and skills that emerged over centuries have been made all but redundant.
Discussion: digg.com
George Chen / Reuters:
Ex-Google China chief to fund Chinese tech start-ups  —  HONG KONG (Reuters) - Kai-fu Lee, Google Inc's former China chief who quit the search giant this week, said on Sunday he will launch his own business next week to fund Chinese technology start-ups.  —  Lee, described by Chinese media …
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Elliott Ng / CNReviews:
Kaifu Lee to launch Innovation Works incubator
Discussion: China Web 2 …, Thanks:elliottng
Arn / Touch Arcade:
C64 Emulator Approved by Apple and Now Available  —  Manomio's Commodore 64 emulator [$4.99] has finally been approved by Apple.  We first reported on the project back in June, after Manomio had received their first rejection from Apple.  The rejection was particularly disappointing considering …
Discussion: Sean Percival's Blog
Joe / joestump.net:
Why I switched from PHP to Python  —  When it came time to start putting code to paper at CrashCorp I was faced with the decision of choosing both a language and a platform.  After 11 years of coding solely in PHP I'd grown tired of the language and, to some extent, the community (not the people …
Blassey / Brad's Blog:
Fennec Alpha 3 for Windows Mobile  —  We're very happy to announce the availability of Fennec Alpha 3 for Windows Mobile.  There are lots of great features and fixes included in this release.  You can find the release notes here and a cab installer here.  Personally, I'm turning off my iPhone …
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Today's Google “Unexplained Phenomenon” Flying Saucer Logo  —  Aliens in a flying saucer have abducted one of the Os out of the Google logo today.  Normally when there are special Google logos like this, the holiday or special occasion is pretty clear.  But this one is a stumper.  What's it for?
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Leander Kahney / Cult of Mac:
Icon Porn: Feast Your Eyes On Snow Leopard's Beautiful Icons  —  All the icons for folders and apps in Snow Leopard are now drawn in glorious 512 x 512 pixels.  It's a step toward making the operating system resolution independent, and perhaps also to make Snow Leopard a touchscreen friendly OS.
Discussion: TUAW and MacDailyNews
Jonathan Ansfield / New York Times:
China Web Sites Seeking Users' Names  —  BEIJING — News Web sites in China, complying with secret government orders, are requiring that new users log on under their true identities to post comments, a shift in policy that the country's Internet users and media have fiercely opposed in the past.
Discussion: ZDNet Government and Gawker
Paul Graham:
The Anatomy of Determination  —  Like all investors, we spend a lot of time trying to learn how to predict which startups will succeed.  We probably spend more time thinking about it than most, because we invest the earliest.  Prediction is usually all we have to rely on.
Meg / meish dot org:
The many ways in which the experience of Twitter's development and growing popularity is very much like the experience of early blogging  —  The reminder a couple of weeks ago that pioneering blog publishing engine Blogger was launched ten years ago got me thinking.
Thanks:atul
Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:
Google bigotry  —  Google has an image problem - not a PR problem (that is, not with the public) but a press problem (with whining old media people).  Google is trying hard - too hard, perhaps - not to argue with the guys who still buy ink by the barrel.  Google is only causing them to buy fewer barrels.
Discussion: The Noisy Channel, Thanks:atul
 
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Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Touchscreen popularity fuels lots of startups
Discussion: blogs.ft.com
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Maps Wars: How Google, Microsoft And Yahoo Deal With Bridge Closure
Larry Magid / CNET News:
Parental control company sells data on what kids say
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Brainstorm Tech:
Is Apple losing another board member?
Discussion: Silicon Alley Insider, Thanks:mattpol
 Earlier Items: 
Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:
Apple: The iPhone Cash Machine
Discussion: MacNN
David Pierson / Los Angeles Times:
China's favorite Internet craze: 'Jia Junpeng, your mom is calling …
Joe Nocera / New York Times:
The Cloud Hanging Over Skype
Discussion: Techgeist, Thanks:atul