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Katie Hafner / New York Times:
Growing Wikipedia Revises Its 'Anyone Can Edit' Policy — Wikipedia is the online encyclopedia that "anyone can edit." Unless you want to edit the entries on Albert Einstein, human rights in China or Christina Aguilera. — Wikipedia's come-one, come-all invitation to write and edit articles …
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michael parekh on IT, Open Culture, Digital Micro-Markets, ResourceShelf and UMBC eBiquity Blog
Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:
The meaning of Bill … (This is a post The Guardian's Comment is Free asked me to write about Bill Gates — thus the view from that side of the world. If you'd like to comment, please do so at Comment is Free.) — In America, we, too, have our class system, though it is a perverse version …
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Mathew Ingram / mathewingram.com/work:
Gates to leave MSFT — ho hum — "Gates leaving Microsoft" makes for a nice headline, and plenty of speculation and commentary over at techmeme, but it doesn't really bear any relationship to reality. For one thing, Bill isn't leaving his "day-to-day role" (whatever that really is) …
Damon Darlin / New York Times:
Now, Free Ways to Do Desktop Work on the Web — The biggest expense in buying a new computer is not always the computer. After all, you can buy a new Dell desktop, and a good one at that, for $300 and get a monitor in the bargain. — The software to make a PC do anything useful can cost you as much as the computer.
Associated Press:
Rockies using video iPods to study swings, hitters — DENVER — Three hours before a start against Florida, Colorado Rockies pitcher Jason Jennings sits in front of his locker, puts on his headphones and stares at his video iPod. — He isn't watching the latest Coldplay video or catching …
Marshall Kirkpatrick / TechCrunch:
Why is Flickr afraid of Zooomr? — Flickr says that users own the the images and tags we enter into their system. Apparently that doesn't mean they have to make it easy for us to take what we own elsewhere. — When Kristopher Tate, the founder of the feature-rich startup photosharing site Zooomr …
Marguerite Reardon / CNET News.com:
DSL strikes a chord with frugal shoppers — A new kind of digital divide is emerging in the U.S. broadband market. — On one side are middle-income and price-sensitive households, which tend to favor DSL service offered by phone companies. On the other are more affluent families …
Limbo / Hellonline:
A Purple What?? — So I know I'm a little late but I just watched Seth Godin talking at Google on Google Video (found the link on Presentation Zen). The video itself is pretty interesting, Seth has a lot to say and his delivery is great. What follows are some thoughts I jotted down:
Julie Bosman / New York Times:
JWT Puts a 'Roadblock' on Huffington Post — OLD school, meet new. — JWT, the oldest advertising agency in the United States, has purchased all the ad space on The Huffington Post home page for one week, starting tomorrow. The Web site will showcase nine of JWT's best television commercials with links …
Prince McLean / AppleInsider:
Mac OS X 10.4.7 to deliver audio fixes, more — An update to Apple Computer's Mac OS X Tiger operating system due within a matter of days will deliver audio enhancements for several of the company's applications, AppleInsider has learned. — Specifically, people who claim to have tested …
Mike / Techdirt:
Investigating The Obviousness Of Software Patents — from the can-you-look-at-obviousness? dept — In many of our discussions about the patent system, one of the big debates between those who think the system is just dandy and those who have problems with it concerns the question of "obviousness."
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Edge Online:
A BUG'S LIFE — Is it still worth hunting bugs for a living - at the risk of being treated like an insect - for your break in the videogame industry? — "You are not playing games." While researching the life and times of the modern-day games tester for this article …
Daniel Goldman / A blog covering the latest buzz …:
Opera 9 just around the corner; Grand marketing campaign in the works — Opera is gearing up for the release of Opera 9. — The new browser would presumably be released this coming Tuesday (June 20th) at a formal event Opera is holding in Seattle, WA. There has been lots of speculation …
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twice.com:
CyberHome DVD Recorders Seized — San Jose, Calif. — A task force of local, state and federal agencies seized more than 20,000 CyberHome-brand DVD recorders that allegedly use Philips patents without a license. — CyberHome U.S.A. of Fremont, Calif., markets DVD players, DVD recorders, portable DVD players and a handful of LCD TVs.
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Ryan Naraine / eWEEK.com:
Microsoft Confirms Excel Zero-Day Attack Under Way — Microsoft June 15 confirmed that a new, undocumented flaw in its widely used Excel spreadsheet program was being used in an attack against an unnamed target. — The company's warning comes less than a month after a code-execution hole …
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