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Aaron Swartz:
Who Writes Wikipedia? — Wikimedia 2006 Elections — Part 2: Who Writes Wikipedia? — Part 3: Who Runs Wikipedia? (coming Wednesday) — If you translate this essay, please contact me. — Vote for me in the election for the Wikimedia Foundation's Board of Directors.
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Gabe Rivera / efuddle.com:
Why I don't offer a personal filter — I'm facing another round of inquiries on personal filtering, mostly from Techmeme fans who've read Ross Mayfield's or Dare Obasanjo's recent thoughts on the matter. (Just for the record, the first round included requests from Jeff Clavier and Ted Leung nearly a year ago!)
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Labnotes, Conversion Rater, John Furrier, Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life and The Blog Herald
Tom Mohr / Editor and Publisher:
SPECIAL: "Winning Online" — A Manifesto — NEW YORK Newspapers must win online, or face a future of painful contraction. — To win, industry leaders must adopt a Marshall Plan embodying two key objectives: the migration to common platforms, and the acquisition of the ability to sell top-quality online product to our advertisers.
Kasper Jade / AppleInsider:
Apple to roll-out iTunes movies and 'one more thing' — The charismatic leader and co-founder of Apple Computer, Steve Jobs, plans to summons the worldwide media to a special event this month in which he'll usher in a new chapter in the company's digital media strategy, AppleInsider has learned.
Simon Perry / Digital-Lifestyles.info:
SanDisk Forced to Remove MP3 Players From IFA:Exclusive — SanDisk have been forced to remove all of their MP3 music players from their stand at the huge CE show, IFA in Berlin, Digital-Lifestyles can exclusively reveal. — Societa Italiana per lo Sviluppo Dell' Elettronica, S.p.A. …
Cynthia Brumfield / IP Democracy:
Vonage Hits the Two Million Mark — The New York Times Matt Richtel has this piece today on Vonage, which includes a rare interview with high-profile co-founder Jeff Citron (whom Richtel misidentifies as CEO of the company — Citron is actually Chairman and Chief Strategist.
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Todd Bishop / Seattle Post-Intelligencer:
Software Notebook: Microsoft tries a new model for device team — 'MEDX' team shares desks, ideas on the look Microsoft wants — With long, shared desks and a wide-open interior, one work space at Microsoft is an unexpected sight inside a company that has traditionally championed individual offices.
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Dr. Macenstein / Macenstein:
REVIEW: The POWER POUCH™Sports Bra for iPod — Back in July, the boys here caught wind of the POWER POUCH Sports Bra by gracie's gear, and dubbed it "single most important iPod accessory to ever have been made." Well, little did they know, they were actually on to something.
Robert Young / GigaOM:
Digg that Fat Belly! — Chris Anderson in his book, The Long Tail (read Chris' book), divides the power law distribution curve into only two segments... the hit-driven head (Big Head) and, obviously, the long tail. What's missing is actually the most important part... the section in the middle of the curve The Fat Belly.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
WebWorkerDaily, for the Web 2.0 Worker — Om Malik's blog network is starting to take shape as he launches WebWorkerDaily this afternoon. The new site is a blog for the distributed worker, where the office is wherever their laptop happens to be. Cell phones, Skype, laptops and other tools …
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Richard MacManus / Read/WriteWeb:
ZapTXT: promising RSS topic subscription service — With the messy demise of PubSub, I've been looking for a decent keyword and topic subscription service to replace it. ZapTXT could very well meet my requirements, except for the odd fact that it doesn't output in RSS (more on that below).
Tom Coates / plasticbag.org:
Some thoughts about FOO and elitism... I'm going to try over the next few days to capture retrospectively my FOO experience in a little detail. I didn't think I'd have enough time to do it, but it turns out that when you're trying to avoid writing your talk for major conferences in the US there's …
Tim / O'Reilly Radar:
Open Data: Small Pieces Loosely Joined — Chris Messina's blog entry about Gdata, entitled Building a Better Mousetrap, shows how people are waking up to the new platform wars. Chris singles out Google in his post: … I don't know that Chris is right to point the finger at Google …
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Glass House
Elinor Mills / CNET News.com:
Start-up pays people to answer questions online — A new social search site that pays people to answer questions from visitors will become publicly available on Monday. — ChaCha.com will pay "guides" up to $10 per hour spent searching for Web sites that contain answers to user questions.
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Search Engine Watch Blog, TechCrunch UK, Mashable!, Google Operating System and ResourceShelf
Robert Levine / New York Times:
MySpace Music Store Is New Challenge for Big Labels — So far none of the companies that sell music online have emerged as serious competitors to the iTunes Music Store of Apple Computer. But not one of them has an audience like MySpace, which millions of teenage and twentysomething music fans visit every day.
Richard MacManus / Read/WriteWeb:
Top Italian Web Apps — As well as being reigning world football champions, Italy has a number of world class web apps. Yes, Italy is the 10th country to be profiled in Read/WriteWeb's Top International Web Apps series. The others so far have been Germany, Holland, Poland, Korea, United Kingdom, Russia, Spain, China and Turkey.
Ryan Katz / Think Secret:
New iPods, iMac due September 12 — Apple will take advantage of a September 12 media event to introduce the second-generation iPod nano, an updated 5G iPod, and upgraded iMacs, sources tell Think Secret. — Additional members of the media are slated to received invitations to the event this week …
Evan Blass / Engadget:
Apple pays woman to "de-Pod" her product — In a move that will be seen as gracious by some, extortionist by others, Apple has offered to pay a New Jersey woman an undisclosed sum to rebrand a laptop bag she sells so that it no longer includes the word "pod" — but not before reminding …
Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life:
When a Plan Comes Together — Today I was browsing Windows Live QnA and stumbled across one the user pages (shown below) and realized that we've finally shipped the Windows Live friends list to another web property besides Windows Live Spaces — This is one of the coolest things about working …
