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12:40 AM ET, March 9, 2009

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Nova Spivack / Twine:
Wolfram Alpha is Coming — and It Could be as Important as Google  —  Stephen Wolfram is building something new — and it is really impressive and significant.  In fact it may be as important for the Web (and the world) as Google, but for a different purpose.
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Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:
Wolfram Alpha — it's like plugging into an electronic brain  —  Scientist Stephen Wolfram has built a new engine, called Wolfram Alpha, that apparently can compute answers to factual questions more powerfully than Google.  —  Wolfram has just posted about the effort, which has taken years …
Discussion: TechCrunch, WinBeta, ParisLemon and Slashdot
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Big Music Will Surrender, But Not Until At Least 2011  —  I had a surprisingly candid lunch conversation last week with a big music label executive, and a good part of our talk focused on the future of music.  I asked the usual question: Why are you guys so damned clueless?
Julian Sanchez / Ars Technica:
Google's DMCA takedowns leaving Blogger users high and dry  —  The Digital Millennium Copyright Act is supposed to balance the rights of copyright holders and online authors, while protecting Internet service providers from getting caught in the crossfire.  But Google's policy …
Julian Sanchez / Ars Technica:
GOP's top techie calls it quits  —  The RNC loses its e-campaign director, a Silicon Valley vet long touted as the party's best hope for regaining its tech game.  —  In the Republican Party's ongoing struggle to build an online political machine to rival the formidable new media operation fielded …
TwiTip:
Welcome to the Hive Mind; Learn How to Search Twitter  —  by Chris Allison (@Chris_Allison) CMO of Centsports.  —  A few days back, for no particular reason, I started thinking more about how to search for useful information on Twitter.  Then Twitter announced they were integrating search.twitter.com …
Discussion: Memex 1.1 and digg.com
Sarah E. Needleman / Wall Street Journal:
Recruiters Use Search Engines to Lure Job Hunters  —  Cash-Strapped Companies Save With Search Ads, Scale Back on Rival Media Like Job Boards and Newspapers  —  Companies have long used search-engine marketing to lure online consumers.  Now they're looking to draw job hunters the same way …
Kevin J. O'Brien / New York Times:
Fight Over Internet Filtering Has a Test Run in Europe  —  BERLIN — As European lawmakers debate how to keep access to the Internet free and equal — so-called network neutrality — they are inundated, not unsurprisingly, by lobbyists.  —  But the corporate envoys roaming the halls …
Wall Street Journal:
The Search for Change  —  Eric Schmidt of Google on why the company spends so much time worrying about energy  —  Many think of Google Inc. as a search company.  But it's also an investor in renewable energy, and it has proposed an ambitious plan to put clean energy at the heart of the U.S. energy mix.
David Lazarus / Los Angeles Times:
Talk isn't cheap?  For cellphone users, not talking is costly too  —  A study shows many customers pay for much more time than they use  —  If you're like most cellphone users, you probably think you're paying less than 10 cents per minute for calls.  Think again.
Dave Zatz / Zatz Not Funny!:
Amazon VOD in HD on TiVo - Coming Soon?  —  After reading my post wondering where Amazon VOD in HD is, multiple sources have confirmed for me that TiVo's implementation is currently in testing.  While I still don't have concrete timing details, and suspect we're waiting on Amazon.com at this point …
Aidan Malley / AppleInsider:
Would-be iPhone developers “pulling their hair out by the roots”  —  Apple's ability to process iPhone developer contracts is quickly turning into a minor crisis as what was once a smooth process is rapidly turning into a months-long backlog that threatens to keep new developers out of the App Store.
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Adrian Kingsley-Hughes / Hardware 2.0:
iPhone developer: You need Apple but Apple doesn't need you
Eirik Solheim / NRKbeta:
Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation sets up its own bittorrent tracker  —  Dette er en egnelsk artikkel som informerer om at NRK har satt opp sin egen BitTorrent-tracker.  Noe som kan være av internasjonal interesse.  Vi har også en egen artikkel som forklarer hvorfor vi av og …
Discussion: TorrentFreak, Slashdot and digg.com
 
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Robert Coalson / Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty:
Behind The Estonia Cyberattacks
Matt Labash / Weekly Standard:
Down with Facebook!  —  What nobody bothers to mention …
Discussion: Gawker
Michael Masnick / Techdirt:
Company Threatens EFF With Defamation In Response To EFF Trying To Bust Its Patent
TheFunded.com:
The VC Apocalypse: Careful with Your Time
Discussion: HipMojo.com
Bloomberg:
Yahoo Wins Court Approval of Severance Plan That May Aid Buyout Offers
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Pay-For-Play Comes To Online Radio. Is That a Bad Thing?
 Earlier Items: 
Randall Stross / New York Times:
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DCEmu.Com:
The State of the Homebrew Scene 2009
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Matt Rosoff / Digital Noise:
More free on-demand audio with Muziic
Discussion: CNET News and TECH.BLORGE.com
Robert X. Cringely / I, Cringely:
The Neokast Mystery  —  What happened to Neokast?  It's a mystery to me.
Nick / Rough Type:
Google's chief executive worrywart
Discussion: TechCrunch
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Who Needs Big Music on YouTube? The Best Video of 2009 is Homegrown