Check out Mini-Techmeme for simple mobiles or Techmeme Mobile for modern smartphones.
3:50 AM ET, April 25, 2007

Techmeme

 Top Items: 
Jason Calacanis / The Jason Calacanis Weblog:
WIRED journo won't do email interviews—ironic.  —  A WIRED journalist pinged me for some comments on Michael Arrington and his A-list blogger status.  I told the journalist to send me the questions by email and he refused.  He said Dave Winer did the same thing.
RELATED:
Dave Winer / Scripting News:
Transcription errors  —  Jason Calacanis was contacted by the same reporter who contacted me.  I'm mentioned in Jason's post, but somewhere along the line there was a transcription error.  I did not offer to do the interview via email, I made a different offer.  —  Here's what I said: "Not generally doing interviews these days.
Discussion: Threat Level
Dylan Tweney / Epicenter:
Calacanis Won't Do Phone Interview — Cowardly  —  Jason McCabe Calacanis is complaining about a Wired reporter who wants to do an interview with him, but refuses to do it via email.  He says it's "ironic" that a magazine covering the digital age refuses to use email for its interviews.  —  Ironic?
Dan Gillmor / Center for Citizen Media:
Interviews, Email or Live  —  Wired News calls Jason Calacanis "cowardly" for refusing to do an interview except by email.  Pretty thin-skinned response to Jason's fuller explanation of why that's his policy.  —  Updates: Wired's Fred Vogelstein posts the entire email exchange he had with Jason on this topic.
Mike / CrunchNotes:
With Friends Like These  —  Despite my frequent jabs at Wired, they were (and I mean "were") considering doing an article on TechCrunch and the upcoming TechCrunch20 conference.  Fred Vogelstein (a very well respected journalist - this is the guy Microsoft was keeping a file on) was pinging people to get their perspective.
Discussion: Startup Dunia
Valleywag:
SILICON VALLEY USERS GUIDE: Interview etiquette
Mathew / mathewingram.com/work:   Interviews: phone, email — which is best?
RELATED:
John Murrell / Good Morning Silicon Valley:
Ex-Apple CFO: I cannot tell a lie — Steve did it  —  As anticipated, the SEC dropped the hammer today on two former Apple execs in connection with its investigation into stock-option backdating (see "And that's why Mr. Jobs' office has the Teflon wall covering and the extra insulation").
Gregg Keizer / Computerworld:
Vista betas, RCs will reboot every 2 hours starting June 1  —  Microsoft to notify users of OS expiration, but no price break for testers  —  Microsoft Corp. today spelled out exactly how users of Windows Vista betas and release candidates can shift to the final code, and warned that beginning June 1 …
RELATED:
Iancr / Yahoo! Music Blog:
Lyrics By The Pound … Check out this now-embarrassing post from 1992 in rec.music.funky where I'm trying to decode the lyrics to "A Year And A Day" from Beastie Boys' Paul's Boutique. … Yahoo! Music can tell you. … Click to download the Mike D interview MP3 … Or Rakim.  But mostly Yahoo! Music.
RELATED:
Yahoo!:
Yahoo! Music and Gracenote Present Song Lyrics from U2, Prince, The Beatles, Elvis Presley, Kanye West, Radiohead and More  —  Gracenote Features Song Lyrics from All Five Major Music Publishers, Creating the Largest Free, Legal Song Lyrics Service for Consumers
Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:
Report: 80 percent of blogs contain "offensive" content  —  Blogs are known to be a free-for-all for "expressive" content, but according to a new report by ScanSafe, a vast majority of blogs host content that is considered "offensive" and potentially "unwanted."
Discussion: digg
RELATED:
PC World:
Blogs Now Infested With Offensive Content
Business Wire:
Amazon.com Announces First Quarter Sales Surpass $3 Billion, up 32% Year over Year — Operating Profit Grows 38% — Raises Financial Guidance  —  SEATTLE—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN - News) today announced financial results for its first quarter ended March 31, 2007.
Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:
CastTV raises $3.1M to launch better video search  —  San Francisco's CastTV, a site that says it can search video better than leading players like Yahoo and Google by turning up Javascript-hidden files and other information, has raised $3.1 million from well-known venture capitalists.
Discussion: TechFold
RELATED:
Stephanie Pettinati / corp.casttv.com:
CastTV Closes Series A Led by DFJ
Dell:
No Spin Zone: Dell Ushers In Better Mobile Storage Reliability With Solid State Drives on Select Notebooks  —  Commits to Offer New Technology Across Next-Generation Latitude Product Line  —  Dell today announced that it is offering a 1.8-inch 32GB* solid state drive (SSD) …
Gizmodo:
Onkyo Debuts World's First XM, Sirius, HD Radio Tuner  —  We hit up Onkyo's press event in Jersey City this afternoon where in addition to its new line of uber-receivers and HTiBs, the company also quietly unleashed the world's first three-way radio tuner (it's the one on the bottom).
Discussion: Engadget, Orbitcast and Crave
Jon Udell:
Rewriting the enriched web  —  When I interviewed Bill Gates at the September 2005 Professional Developers Conference, one of the topics we discussed was the just-announced WFP/E (Windows Presentation Foundation/Everywhere).  Amusingly, he remarked: … In the usual course of events …
Discussion: Ryan Stewart
Morgan McDowell / Market Wire:
User-Generated Content Delivers More Bang for Your Online Marketing Buck According to Study From BlueLithium Labs  —  On average, user-generated content (UGC) sites provide a lower cost per conversion than non-UGC sites.  That's the surprising finding from a new study published today by BlueLithium Labs …
A List Apart:
The Web Design Survey, 2007  —  Designers, developers, project managers.  Writers and editors.  Information architects and usability specialists.  People who make websites have been at it for more than a dozen years, yet almost nothing is known, statistically, about our profession.  Who are we?
 
 Archived Page Info: 
This is a snapshot of Techmeme at 3:50 AM ET, April 25, 2007.

View the current page or another snapshot:


 
 Techmeme Sponsor Posts: 
Airtable:
What's the ROI on AI?  That's the trillion dollar question.  —  Learn why Airtable's the enterprise operating system for the AI era, delivering enterprise-grade security, privacy and governance.
Tribe AI:
Build AI products that matter  —  Tribe AI helps organizations rapidly deploy AI solutions that have real business impact.  We bring together world class AI talent and tooling to drive differentiated results.
Zoho:
Zoho Payroll Premium Plan: The best of Zoho Payroll  —  Zoho Payroll is on a mission to transform payroll for small, emerging, and established businesses.  To bring you closer to this goal, we're introducing a new plan: Zoho Payroll Premium Plan.
Notion:
Get up to 6 months free of Notion with unlimited AI  —  Notion is trusted and loved by thousands of startups as their connected workspace—from building product roadmaps to tracking fundraising.  Build and scale your company with one tool!
Sponsor Techmeme
 
 See Also: 
Techmeme: site main
Techmeme River: reverse chronological Techmeme
Techmeme Mobile: for phones
Techmeme Leaderboard: Techmeme's top sources
 
 Subscribe: 
Techmeme RSS feed
Techmeme on X
Techmeme on Mastodon
 
 
 More Items: 
Valleywag:
TRAFFIC TRICKS: Technorati's search engine traffic
Discussion: 901am
Chris Anderson / The Long Tail:
I'M IN HALO 3!  —  Today I spent the day in Seattle …
Discussion: Kotaku, Game | Life and Joystiq
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Newsvine Relaunch Today: Build Your Own News Site
Discussion: Mike Davidson
Catherine Holahan / Business Week:
The Myth of High-Tech Outsourcing
Peter Hartlaub / San Francisco Chronicle:
Another tragedy, another platform for video game fearmonger
Dion Almaer / Google Code:
Google releases patches that enhance the manageability and reliability of MySQL
Discussion: WebProNews
Lifehacker:
Download of the Day: Better Gmail 0.4 (Firefox)
Dan Farber / Between the Lines:
SAP gets on the Enterprise 2.0 bandwagon
Discussion: AccMan and People Over Process
 Earlier Items: 
Bloggers Blog:
Print Magazine for Bloggers and Podcasters Launches
Scott Karp / Publishing 2.0:
RSS Has No Value Without A Filter
Business Wire:
FogSHIELD Security Fogger Now Available; Stops a Burglary Before It Happens
Discussion: Engadget and I4U News
Lifehacker:
Hack Attack: Control multiple computers with a single keyboard and mouse
Discussion: DailyTechRag
Matt Richtel / New York Times:
Kleiner Perkins to Expand With Two Offices in China
Discussion: Valleywag and Inc.com
Jeremy Reimer / Ars Technica:
Apple sued over vague user interface patent
Karen / Official Google Blog:
New 3-D layers from AIA on Google Earth
Jeff Atwood / Coding Horror:
Where Are All the Open Source Billionaires?