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12:00 AM ET, June 18, 2006

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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 …
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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Mary Jo Foley / Microsoft Watch:
Bill Gates' Legacy: Microsoft's Top 10 Flops  —  Gates will be remembered as a visionary and PC industry leader.  But even Microsoft's Chairman hasn't been right in all of his bets.  —  The Chairman isn't always right.  —  While Microsoft's outgoing Chief Software Architect Bill Gates …
Mathew Ingram / mathewingram.com/work:
Gates to leave MSFT — ho hum
merged.ca:
STEP-BY-STEP: HOW TO GET BILLIONS OF PAGES INDEXED BY GOOGLE  —  As most SEOs know, MSN loves the subdomains.  You can make hundreds of keyworded subdomains and MSN will think quite highly of the pages.  Same goes for blogspot and other blogs- they do very well on MSN and sometimes on Yahoo.
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 …
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.
Discussion: PostBubble
John Markoff / New York Times:
Microsoft Lieutenants Look Ahead, Hoping to Avoid Other Companies' Mistakes  —  Microsoft's chairman, Bill Gates, right, with senior company executives Ray Ozzie, left, and Craig Mundie on Friday in Redmond, Wash.  —  REDMOND, Wash., June 16 — Microsoft stands astride the computing world …
Discussion: Corporate Engagement
Paul Miller / Engadget:
Dog brain in a dish plays Quake 3: Arena  —  Don't get all PETA on us, we're just the messenger, but a University of Texas scientist has grown a living "brain" in a petri dish using 50,000 nerve cells from a dog.  We're sure there are many noble things to be done with a brain in a dish …
Discussion: Newsome.Org
Preston Gralla / Networking Pipeline:
Skype and Vonage: Can You Hear The VoIP Bubble Bursting?  —  It's looking more and more as if the VoIP hype bubble is going the way of the Internet bubble.  Skype, bought for up to $4.1 billion by eBay, is turning out to be a bad investment, and as for the Vonage IPO …
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 …
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 …
Discussion: Techdirt and AdJab
Matt Saturday / Brooklyn Ski Club:
Easy Money, Sell Your Friends.  —  I recieved the following email in my MySpace inbox yesterday.  Some company is buying up profiles with over 20,000 friends.  Take a look:  —  From: Jessica  —  Date: Jun 14, 2006 7:55 PM  —  Subject: TOP CASH FOR YOUR MYSPACE ACCOUNT
Discussion: Boing Boing
Dave Zatz / Zatz Not Funny:
TiVo Applies For DVR PPV Patent  —  The USPTO has just published TiVo's Method and apparatus for secure transfer of previously broadcasted content and Method and apparatus for secure transfer and playback of multimedia content patent applications.  Within the documents TiVo describes several methods …
Discussion: Gizmodo and Engadget
 
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Seth Godin / Seth's Blog:
And the lunch was good, too  —  Thanks to everyone who came …
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Mike / Techdirt:
Investigating The Obviousness Of Software Patents
Mark / dive into mark:
Juggling oranges  —  The first 90% of John Gruber's And Oranges is excellent.
Limbo / Hellonline:
A Purple What??  —  So I know I'm a little late but I just …
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Opera 9 just around the corner; Grand marketing campaign in the works
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Prince McLean / AppleInsider:
Mac OS X 10.4.7 to deliver audio fixes, more
Emily / picturephoning.com:
DOCOMO CELL PHONE CAN TEST WHETHER DRIVERS HAVE BEEN DRINKING
Discussion: Gizmodo and Engadget Mobile
Jacques Steinberg / New York Times:
Dan Rather Considering Offer From Mark Cuban
Marguerite Reardon / CNET News.com:
DSL strikes a chord with frugal shoppers
Edge Online:
A BUG'S LIFE  —  Is it still worth hunting bugs for a living …
 

 
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CNN:
Reporters from news orgs were denied credentials to Trump's election night watch event; source: Politico's credentials were revoked following critical coverage

Alexandra Steigrad / New York Post:
iHeart says it is laying off employees; a source says the layoffs affect less than 5% of a workforce of more than 10,000 employees

Mandy Dalugdug / Music Business Worldwide:
UMG, ABKCO, and Concord sue Believe, a music distributor in 50+ countries, and its subsidiary TuneCore for $500M+, accusing Believe of copyright infringement

 
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