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David Carr / New York Times:
A Blog Mogul Turns Bearish on Blogs — THE blogging bubble has been taking on serious air of late. Last week, PaidContent.org, a blog that covers digital media, held its first mixer. It was, by all reports, filled to the brim with money and content guys speed dating on the way to marriage.
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Rex Hammock's Weblog:
Blog mogul? The NYT's David Carr has a piece today about Nick Denton that includes this quote regarding the PaidContent.org mixer in New York last week: "It made me want to move to Budapest, batten down the hatches and wait for the zombies to run out of food." (Note: What follows is a rant about the article, not about Nick.)
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Heather Green / Blogspotting:
The Meaning of Being Bearish on Blogs is.... I skimmed David Carr's column in the NYTimes about Nick Denton entitled "A Blog Mogul Turns Bearish on Blogs" trying to understand the meaning of the headline. What part of blogging is Gawker Media's Denton bearish about? — Frankly, I am still not sure.
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J. LeRoy's Evolving Web, Good Morning Silicon Valley, Things That, The Browser, LexBlog Blog and The Daily Om
Steve Rubel / Micro Persuasion:Gawker Trims Portfolio, Lays Off Bloggers
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Mathew Ingram, PostBubble, Internet Marketing News …, WebMetricsGuru and Business Filter
Todd Bishop / Seattle Post-Intelligencer:
Software Notebook: Mr. Firefox looks to the future — Blake Ross was a teenager in 2002 when he and fellow software developer Dave Hyatt launched the Mozilla Firefox project — a community-made Web browser that has won devoted fans and taken market share from Microsoft's dominant Internet Explorer …
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Bloomberg:
Yahoo China to Be Sued by Music Labels Including EMI (Update1) — July 3 (Bloomberg) — Yahoo China, the nation's second- largest search engine, will be sued by record labels for infringing copyright laws within ``a few weeks,'' according to a group representing companies including EMI Group Plc.
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Dhiramshah / New Launches:
Angel Kitty USB keyboard for the naughty geeky lover — After the USB powered shirt here is something naughty, a maid's costume with a functional USB keyboard wrapped around the chest region. The 85 key keyboard is bendable and made of silicon to give you the right feeling and avoid damage to your girlfriend.
Peter Wayner / New York Times:
Site Tempts Video Makers by Offering to Pay Them — If creators of homemade Internet video get tired of producing something for nothing, they can post their work on Lulu.tv. — The Web site, which lets people upload and watch video clips, said last week that it would begin charging …
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Darren Waters / BBC:
Google to stay focused on search — Online search is not a "solved problem", a senior executive for net giant Google has told BBC News. — "Our position is that search is a very hard problem. We have still a lot of work to do," said Douglas Merrill, who looks after internal engineering.
New York Times:
Internet Calling Pressures Bells to Lower Rates — Competition in the phone business, intensifying this year as Internet-based calling has taken root, has reached the point where many industry experts are anticipating an era of remarkably cheap and even free calls.
Kieren McCarthy / The Register:
The internet needs YOU! — US government asks for comments on how net is run — The US government is asking for comments on how the internet should be run, and anyone is allowed to comment - but you'll need to be quick. — The NTIA - an arm of the US government's department of commerce …
John Battelle / John Battelle's Searchblog:
NOW, THIS READS WRONG TO ME — There are always lawsuits against big targets, and initially the suit filed by KinderStart against Google, in which the parenting site/vertical search engine complained that it's ranking has been intentionally lowered, felt like a nuisance and nothing more.
Robert Andrews / Wired News:
Real DJs Code Live — LONDON — Some DJs spin vinyl or twiddle fader knobs. Others write subroutines in C++. — A new brand of music maestro is turning programming into performance, eschewing turntables for a compiler and a mind for syntax structure. "Livecoding" practitioners improvise using Perl …
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Mark Evans:
Google-Bashing — BusinessWeek takes a nice, healthy run at Google and its inability to come up with another smash-hit. In the story, "So Much Fanfare, So Few Hits", BusinessWeek pokes a big stick at Google's modus operandi to release new services (Spreadsheet, etc.) that receive lots of buzz but only modest acceptance by users.
Jason Fry / Wall Street Journal:
Dreams of a Truly Mobile Web — Net Needs to Escape Its Computer Cage, — But Best of Luck Freeing It in the U.S. — It's a longstanding maxim of this column that the future generally doesn't arrive with a lot of flash and noise — instead, it sneaks up on you.
