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12:30 AM ET, February 26, 2007

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Robert Young / GigaOM:
Hollywood Disrupted  —  Reading through the LA Times, as I do before The Oscars every year, I came across a fantastic Op-Ed written by a respected Hollywood author by the name of Neal Gabler.  The opinion piece, titled "The Movie Magic is Gone", explains how Hollywood is losing its place …
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Neal Gabler / Los Angeles Times:
The movie magic is gone
Discussion: IP Democracy and Digital Markets
Evan Blass / Engadget:
BitTorrent Entertainment Network to be unveiled tomorrow  —  We're still reeling over the fact that BitTorrent — the same company that invented every pirate's favorite "sharing technology" — has signed deals with numerous content providers to offer for-pay movie, TV show, and video game downloads …
Discussion: digg
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Cynthia Brumfield / IP Democracy:
BitTorrent Entertainment Network Debuts Monday
Discussion: Mark Evans
Mathew / mathewingram.com/work:   BitTorrent service is built to fail
Scott Karp / Publishing 2.0:
The Great Media Industry Schism  —  The once monolithic media industry is undergoing a radical schism, dividing itself into content creation, on the one hand, and content aggregation and distribution on the other.  —  The nature of this transformation suddenly crystallized …
Jason Pontin / New York Times:
Millions of Videos, and Now a Way to Search Inside Them  —  THE World Wide Web is awash in digital video, but too often we can't find the videos we want or browse for what we might like.  —  That's a loss, because if we could search for Internet videos, they might become the content …
PRWeb:
Oscar Nominations - Wordtracker Predictions  —  The movie and gossip columns today are awash with speculation on the Oscar nominations.  Asking who will walk away with the prizes is great fun not only in the US but throughout the world.  But is there anyway to really get an inside track?
Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog:
Six cool things you can build with OpenID  —  I've posted the slides from my Future of Web Apps talk on OpenID, minus the demo videos.  I'm planning to put together a video that combines the slides, demos and audio once the official podcasts have been published.
Pranam Kolari / UMBC eBiquity:
The I's of the Blogosphere  —  The token "I" (1, 2) can provide interesting cues on the Blogosphere, other than signifying the obvious personal nature of blog posts.  "I" sometimes use it to study the growth of the blogosphere (between David Sifry reports ofcourse), or just for fun …
Discussion: 901am
Google Blogoscoped:
Google Video Plusbox  —  While searching Google for nightwish videos, Razvan Antonescu spotted this video plusbox* (ignore the blue link bars in the screenshot, they're from a Firefox extension).  Alongside a snippet from Google Video, a plus icon appeared with a link reading "show video" …
Discussion: Googling Google
Arn / MacRumors:
Apple iPhone Teaser Ad Airs During Oscars [Updatex3]  —  Apple aired their teaser ad for the Apple iPhone during the Oscars tonight.  The ad has run multiple times during the Oscars.  —  The advertisement started with a collection of scenes from television and film with actors saying "Hello" on a telephone.
Dan Farber / Between the Lines:
Reflections on the first decade of blogging  —  I ran into my old friend Dave Winer at the San Francisco airport on Wednesday last week.  He was on his way to Boston for the Public Media Conference.  We traded pictures and chatted over early morning (6:30 AM) coffee about developers …
Dan Lurie / The Unofficial Apple Weblog:
Fire.app Closes Shop  —  After almost 8 years in production, the open-source instant messaging application Fire has come to an end.  Pre-dating even iChat, Fire was the first multi-protocol client on the platform, and has long had a dedicated user base.  The loss of multiple key members …
Discussion: Infinite Loop and digg
Steve Poland / TechCrunch:
Yahoo Publisher Network's Trojan Horse  —  Google has a hefty lead in getting small publishers to put Google-powered ads on their websites.  There is no negotiated deal - advertisers agree to take whatever Google decides to give them.  Revenue share terms are not disclosed to these small publishers.
John Biggs / CrunchGear:
The Best Anti-PS3 Song of the Weekend  —  Watch it.  You'll either laugh, cry, or want to start a flame war, but this is a perfect example of an audience talking back to a massive corporation that has lost its way.  Sony — watch this multiple times and send a translated version to Tokyo, just so they get all the nuance.
Spencer Kelly / BBC:
Mobile talk moves to Web 2.0  —  With a growing demand for a better browsing experience on our mobiles, there is, according to the industry, demand for Web 2.0 on the go.  —  While text blogging on a mobile is still seen as a minority sport, the explosion of camera and videophones now allows us …
Discussion: MoCoNews
Jeannie Choe / Engadget:
Gamer busted for "borrowing" library WiFi after hours  —  We're well aware of WiFi bogarting from unsuspecting neighbors or coffee shops, but who knew there'd be a crackdown at the local house o' books?  Cops couldn't leave well enough alone when they rolled up on 21 year-old Brian Tanner jammin …
Discussion: digg
 
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Leslie Wayne / New York Times:
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Darren / Digital Camera Reviews, Ratings …:
Olympus to Release DSLR/s on 5 March
Discussion: Gizmodo and Engadget
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Apple To Get Into Ringtone Business
Discussion: MoCoNews, Joe Duck and Gizmodo
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Ubuntu Wants a Bigger Piece of Desktops, Servers
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