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thenewpr.com:
New projects — PR Measurement - A discussion space for those interested by PR measurement — Theses and Dissertations on business blogging — For Immediate Release Show Notes — The place to find and contribute to show notes links for the "For Immediate Release" podcast …
JakeTheSpud:
TABLETS OF SILICON — Consolidating my life with the Toshiba M200 — I should have figured that Moses was onto something when I read he returned from the top of Mt. Sinai with the Ten Commandments on tablets of stone—after all, he was a revolutionary. Until October I was either chained …
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Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:
Cookie monsters — The government cookie story is getting stupider by the day. The AP — having naively believed they had some investigative scoop when they discovered that the NSA site, like most every site on earth, sets cookies — now finds that the White House has "bugs" …
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Rhys Blakely / Times of London:
Identity question for world's encyclopaedia — "In my vision of the future of journalism what we will see is an increasing amount of citizen participation in the gathering of news and in feedback and in reporting and analysing the news. At the same time, we'll have professional organisations managing the process"
Stephen Shankland / CNET News.com:
Voice control coming to XM radio — XM Satellite Radio and VoiceBox Technologies announced a multiyear alliance Thursday to bring voice control to the satellite broadcast service. — The partnership will let drivers issue voice commands to search through XM Satellite Radio's 160 channels of music …
Laurie Sullivan / techweb.com:
VeriChip Files IPO — VeriChip Corp., a subsidiary of Applied Digital Solutions Inc., known for its radio frequency identification technology, said Friday it has filed for an initial public offering (IPO)of shares of its common stock. — The Delray Beach, Fla., company has been the topic …
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Techdirt
Larry Seltzer / eWEEK.com:
Anti-Virus Protection for WMF Flaw Still Inconsistent — Days after the revelation of a flaw in Windows' handling of WMF graphics files, dozens of exploits are being spread from thousands of adware sites. But good protection is available. — At the same time, further testing confirms …
Ryan Block / Engadget:
Alienware's m3400 ultraportable — Looks like Alienware couldn't be bothered to launch at CESand announced their latest Sentia today, the m3400 14-inch widescreen laptop. This is one of thosestraddles-the-ultraportable- line laptops that's a solid 4.5 pounds, a number still more than portable enough …
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MobileWhack.com
John Battelle / John Battelle's Searchblog:
WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU MASHUP RSS, IM, AND PUBLISHING SERVICES? — So remember that prediction I made back in 2004, the one about mobile busting out in some kind of Web 2.0 way in 2005? And how it didn't happen, so I repeated it again this year? Well, I was wrong.
Eryn Brown / Wired News:
Revenge of the Dotcom Poster Boy … It's the Friday before Halloween, and Jason McCabe Calacanis, the onetime king of New York's Silicon Alley, is holding court in his new hometown of Santa Monica, California. Dressed in a chocolaty suede blazer, a BlackBerry glued to his hand …
Anders Bylund / Ars Technica:
RIAA lawyers bully witnesses into perjury — If you're into reading legal proceedings verbatim, here's a doozy for you. It gets even better if you like to see RIAA lawyers dragging themselves, rather than their chosen targets, through the dirt. Let's get a feel for what's going on here:
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TechBlog
Eric Rice:
New Years Eve LIVE podcast / KSSX.com *and* in Second Life — Update Seems to be a little confusion about the event, apparently. The broadcast is STREAMING at KSSX.com:8000 and Second Life is only an added sumthin sumthin for those folks who live there. (Just 'cuz you CAN skim text, doesn't mean you should :P )
MSNBC:
The greatest show on Earth? — What to expect as tech industry gathers for CES — BURLINGAME, Calif. - While most people are still sleeping off the effects of their New Year's Eve debauchery, more than 130,000 industry gearheads and 2,500 hopeful exhibitors will flock to Sin City for the annual Consumer Electronics Show.
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The Blackfriars Blog
isc.sans.org:
Handler's Diary — Lotus Notes Vulnerable to WMF 0-Day Exploit (NEW) — Last Updated: 2005-12-30 07:55:01 UTC by Scott Fendley (Version: 2(click to highlight changes)) — John Herron at NIST.org discovered today that Lotus Notes versions 6.x and higher is vulnerable to the WMF 0-day exploit.
