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Scobleizer / Microsoft Geek Blogger:
The irritant of the non-credible journalists — Last week they went after Microsoft. — This week they are going after Apple. — You know, I'm seeing a trend here. Some bloggers don't know who is a credible journalist and who isn't. Hint: anything the Register writes is NOT credible.
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Dominic Jones / Investor Relations Blog:
Microsoft blogger Scoble wants to censor unfriendly blogosphere — Blogger Robert Scoble, whose employer Microsoft Corp. is under fire for repeatedly delaying the launch of its new operating system Vista, has proposed that bloggers stop linking to negative articles by what he calls "non-credible journalists."
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Trigger Happy? — Looks like we all went trigger happy this week - in the blogging sense of course. — Earlier this past week, there was word that nearly 60% of the Microsoft Vista was going to be rewritten, a move that caused a big furor. Now, if you stopped to think for even a few seconds …
J. Angelo Racoma / Forever Geek:Steve Jobs divests 45% of personal Apple shares
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Newsweek:
The New Wisdom of the Web — Why is everyone so happy in Silicon Valley again? A new wave of start-ups are cashing in on the next stage of the Internet. And this time, it's all about ... you. — Photos by Nigel Parry for Newsweek — Snapshots: Flickr's Butterfield (left) and Fake
Paolo Valdemarin Weblog:
4 blog birthday — 4 years don't sound like a lot of time from here: it's about 12% of my life. Then I start reading what I was writing 4 years ago. — Back then I was still a bubble 1.0 CEO with a couple of VC on my board still hoping to go public. So many things have changed since …
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Phillip Pearson / Second p0st:
Four years blogging — Paolo Valdemarin's note about his 4th blogging anniversary yesterday reminded me that I've now been blogging for 4 years too. I started blogging on 21 March 2002, five days before Paolo started his first public weblog, on the 26th. — Unlike him, I wasn't blogging …
Edward Tenner / New York Times:
Searching for Dummies — Plainsboro, N.J. — TALK of decline was old news in academia even in 1898, when traditionalists blasted Harvard for ending its Greek entrance requirement. But today there's a new twist in the story: Are search engines making today's students dumber?
William C. Taylor / New York Times:
Here's an Idea: Let Everyone Have Ideas — LIKE many top executives, James R. Lavoie and Joseph M. Marino keep a close eye on the stock market. But the two men, co-founders of Rite-Solutions, a software company that builds advanced — and highly classified — command-and-control systems for the Navy …
maxconsole.net:
First Working NES Emulator for Xbox 360 via MCE — Xexter has found a way to run a NES emulator on the XboX 360 using MCE. At the moment there is no sound but it runs at almost full speed. — Yes there is an Xbox 360 on the right.
Alec / Alec Saunders .LOG:
Streamcast Claims Ownership of Core Skype Technologies — Andy has just posted the full text of the Streamcast / Skype RICO lawsuit. It's kind of a grubby fax. Who knows where he got it from? He would only tell me "sources". Nonetheless, the suit alleges that:
Karl / paradox1x:
Norgs: the unconference: "this is the day that the war ends" — I wanted to post this quickly to point you to a few participants and their reports, the day was too big skip without getting at least this up. I will have more later, about the day, the format (hey - the unconference format works!), and thoughts for the future.
Ashlee Vance / The Register:
Oklahoma city threatens to call FBI over 'renegade' Linux maker — The heartland turned vicious this week when an Oklahoma town threatened to call in the FBI because its web site was hacked by Linux maker Cent OS. Problem is CentOS didn't hack Tuttle's web site at all.
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Hubert B. Herring / New York Times:
With Broadband, the PC's Siren Call Is Tough to Resist — If you had any lingering doubts that the Internet was rapidly elbowing its way into becoming an outsize presence in the American household, check out new numbers from Nielsen/NetRatings. — Just three short years ago …
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Lost Remote TV Blog
James McGovern / Enterprise Architecture:
Ruby and the Struggle of the Perspectives... Lot of folks have chimed in on a previous posting on Ruby and responded with passion and supplied their own perspectives but zero facts. One of the reasons I blog is that in my travels, I tend to talk to lots of folks and hear interesting perspectives in which I share here.
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Computer Guru / Ramblings of a Computer Guru:
Vista Build 5342 Today! — As lame as this may sound, we knew about it first. To days ago to be exact.. But our host had given us the boot, and we couldn't tell you that we would be getting a midnight build come Friday.... But that is OK, because NeoSmart Technologies has more than a mere build number and date.
Dave Winer / Scripting News:
You can view the 60-percent-Vista-rewrite story as something of a software development IQ test. Anyone who believes that it's conceivable is someone who hasn't got the most basic clue about how software development works. It's akin to believing that all the US troops in Iraq could come home …
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Mini-Microsoft, JD on EP, Randy Holloway Unfiltered 2.0, Alec Saunders .LOG and Digital Inspiration
