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Michel Marriott / New York Times:
Hey Neighbor, Stop Piggybacking on My Wireless — For a while, the wireless Internet connection Christine and Randy Brodeur installed last year seemed perfect. They were able to sit in their sunny Los Angeles backyard working on their laptop computers. — But they soon began noticing …
The Doc Searls Weblog:
Jumping the snark — Ryan King, one of the organizers of Bar Camp, has posted MashupCamp jumped the shark — a slam on David Berlind and Mashup Camp that I can't let slide. — Ryan: … Ryan then proceeds to knock David for not following or crediting the successful Bar Camp forumula.
Shel Israel / Naked Conversations:
The Normalization of Blogging — Robert and I were the wrap-up speakers yesterday at the New Communications Forum. We did pretty well, but one point I tried to make had not fully formed in my head and I didn't articulate it as well as I would have liked. I've had a day to think about it.
Garett Rogers / Googling Google:
Google GDrive is not a rumor — An interesting article by Greg Lindon points to some slide comments from Google's Analyst Day Power Point presentation last week. The presentation was removed from Google's website but the text is still available in Greg's post.
Matt Richtel / New York Times:
Suddenly, an Industry Is All Ears — AUSTIN, Tex., March 3 — Brendan McGahan, 26, rips off his headset and darts from his cubicle looking for a supervisor. "I'm getting close to an escalation," he says over the drone of other cubicle dwellers. — Just out of the Air Force …
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Scobleizer / Microsoft Geek Blogger:
Better mail than jail — Drew Bell unsubscribes. — Roy Schestowitz unsubscribes and goes even further: "[Scoble's] reputation is overrated. When it comes to technology, I found that Scoble cannot tell his ass from his face." — My reply? First I want to reply to a couple others he made.
Jim / Jim Boykin's Internet Marketing Blog:
SES NYC Crazy Pictures - SESNYC2006 — Sunday Night: — Kim Krause of Cre8pc and Cre8asite forums — Rand Fishkin (SEO Moz) — DaveN & Matt Cutts...Darth Vadar and Obi-Wan? — Monday Morning — Barry Diller of IAC and Danny — Me and Barry Diller — Monday Night Ask.com Party
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Shel / For Immediate Release:
McGraw-Hill will publish our podcasting book — Neville Hobson and Shel Holtz are thrilled to announce that we have come to agreement with McGraw-Hill to write "How to Do Everything with Podcasting," a comprehensive book on the strategies and tactics of podcasting to be published as part of the popular "How to Do Everything" series.
Joris Evers / CNET News.com:
Microsoft: Vista won't get a backdoor — Windows Vista won't have a backdoor that could be used by police forces to get into encrypted files, Microsoft has stressed. — In February, a BBC News story suggested that the British government was in discussions with Microsoft over backdoor access to the operating system.
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Tim / O'Reilly Radar:
ASP.Net on a Roll — With all of the buzz about Ruby on Rails and AJAX, not a lot of people have noticed that Microsoft is making another really good run at the web development space. Based on book sales data, it looks like ASP.Net 2. is on fire, with ASP-related book sales up 53% since …
Reuters:
Testing cell phone radiation on human skin — Finland's radiation watchdog is to study the effects of mobile phones on human proteins by direct tests on people's skin, to see if handset transmissions affect their health. — A pilot study, to be conducted next week, will expose a small area …
Rafat / PaidContent.org:
Tower Records To Start Free Download Service For Music Msshups Within Podcasts — Tower Records To Start Free Download Service For Music Mashups Within Podcasts : (via TechDirt) Talk about reinventing: Tower Records, which is in the throes of offline troubles, is trying to do something new online …
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