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Dave Winer / Scripting News:
Notes from Day 1 — Things that worked: The song, wifi, air conditioning, signage, lunch. — All the DLs and monitors were awesome. The right people showed up, the right people stayed home. — Phil Torrone was every bit as good as I imagined he would be, esp given that this was his first BloggerCon …
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Kathleen Craig / Wired News:
BloggerCon Boosts the Blog Boom — SAN FRANCISCO — When the blogosphere's leading lights gather for a two-day "unconference" on the art and science of blogs, you're sure to get one thing: lots of blog posts about blogging. — In fact, if you didn't make it onto the signup list …
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Between the Lines
Phil Jones / Platform Wars:
Users vs. Developers — Trolling Chris Pirillo wants some. — He he! Well someone's got to stand up and school the boy! — I admire people like Winer (who's link I followed over there). I like the notion of "users and developers partying together". I think developers have a responsibility to give the users good things.
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Between the Lines
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Nick Bradbury:
BloggerCon IV — Most of the time when I attend a conference, I benefit more from the schmoozing/partying than I do from the actual panels. Truth be told, I usually skip the majority of the sessions, hoping to save my energy for the after-hours socializing.
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John Palfrey, Web Strategy, ben barren, Life On the Wicked Stage, Scobleizer and TinyScreenfuls.com
AppleInsider:
Apple's Leopard has its eye on Redmond — For the second time in as many years, Apple Computer is looking to outshine rival Micrsoft Corp. in the inevitable battle between the two companies' software operating systems. — There's still over a month to go before Apple will take the wraps off Leopard …
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Infinite Loop
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Computer Guru / Ramblings of a Computer Guru:
Windows Vista Build 5456 Released — Microsoft has just released a new build of Windows Vista for technical beta testers. Windows Vista Build 5456 offers many security, functionality, and performance advantages over the previous build (Beta 2 - build 5384.4).
WinFS Team / What's in Store:
WinFS Update — It's been nearly a year since I wrote my entry about WinFS Beta1, but rest assured, we have been working furiously since then. Today I have an update about how we are delivering some of the WinFS technologies. It represents a change to our original delivery strategy …
Will / will langford dot com:
Firefox 1.5 vs. Opera 9 — Click here for screenshot. — I've been a diehard Firefox user sense before Beta 1. I wrote my Firefox Guide earlier this year, once that page hit Slashdot there were several comments about how Opera does all of that and more, without the need of the extensions that Firefox has.
Dan Mitchell / New York Times:
More Rumblings About Net Privacy — ONCE again, an online news outlet has published details about secret rooms in AT&T buildings where government spies are said to be gaining access to millions of private e-mail messages and other Internet traffic. This time, it's Salon …
Trinity Rubicon:
The jig is up... I'm going to be honest here: When I posted those Leopard screenshots on Blogger, I was never expecting quite the popularity it ended up acheiving. For it to get on the front page of digg is one thing, but to have it get commented on 200 times is pretty surprising to me.
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Infinite Loop
Steve Rubel / Micro Persuasion:
UMass Study Identifies the Traits of Successful Bloggers — A fascinating new UMass study penned by Dr. Nora Ganim Barnes, Chancellor Professor of Marketing, interviewed 74 different business bloggers to identify what makes some stand out more than others. The paper (PDF) is chock full of really interesting information.
Garett Rogers / Googling Google:
Google's secret IPv6 plans — Google Operating System reports on Alex Lightman's theory why Google is buying up "dark fiber" — to pursue IPv6 initiatives. According to Lightman, Google has a huge block of "slash 20" addresses — exactly what is needed to be a large scale service provider.
Pete Cashmore / Mashable*:
Pandora's New Feature: Backstage — Pandora, the excellent internet radio service, rolled out a great new feature last week: Backstage. The new service is powered by All Music Guide and lets you research the bands you're listening to - over 20,000 artists are listed.
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Lifehacker
Dan Farber / Between the Lines:
BloggerCon: The user complaint session — Chris Pirillo led the first afternoon discussion at BloggerCon on the "power of users." Doc Searls notes on the discussion are here, and you can listen to the podcast from this page or download it. Chris' premise is as follows:
