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Tim O'Reilly / O'Reilly Radar:
Draft Blogger's Code of Conduct — When I wrote my Call for a Blogging Code of Conduct last week, I suggested some ideas of what such a code might contain, but didn't actually put forth a draft that people could subscribe to. We're not quite there yet, but we have a plan.
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Brad Stone / New York Times:
A Call for Manners in the World of Nasty Blogs — Is it too late to bring civility to the Web? — The conversational free-for-all on the Internet known as the blogosphere can be a prickly and unpleasant place. Now, a few high-profile figures in high-tech are proposing a blogger code …
Tony / Deep Jive Interests:
Why Are We *Still* Confusing "Blogging Code of Conduct" With "Having a Comments Policy"? — I always get a chuckle out of reading things in newspapers that I read around the blogosphere days, if not weeks earlier. Case in point: the Kathy Sierra hubaloo has finally got a bit of a footnote …
Iancr / Yahoo! Music Blog:
Wifi-Enabled SanDisk Sansa Connect Features Yahoo! Music Unlimited, LAUNCHcast, Messenger, and Flickr — It's with great pride I announce the release of the SanDisk Sansa Connect, the new Wifi-enabled portable MP3 player set to free you from the USB cable chaining you to your PC …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Yahoo's New Media Device — Yahoo has just announced a cool new wifi device, called the SanDisk Sansa Connect, that comes ready to listen to Yahoo Music (see Yahoo Music overview here along with competitors) and it also syncs up with your Flickr account. — This gives them something …
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Tom Neumayr / Apple:
100 Million iPods Sold — Apple® today announced that the 100 millionth iPod® has been sold, making the iPod the fastest selling music player in history. The first iPod was sold five and a half years ago, in November 2001, and since then Apple has introduced more than 10 new iPod models …
Seth Schiesel / New York Times:
Microsoft Brings Instant Chat to TV Screen, Through Games — Microsoft planned to announce today that it will make its Windows Live Messenger service available on its Xbox 360 game consoles, bringing instant messaging from the computer to the television. — The move was meant …
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Nik / HavanaLion:
iPod tells soldier he was shot - the real story — I talked to Kevin Garrad this afternoon and here's the story firsthand: — The armor stopped the bullet. — The iPod was how Kevin Garrad found out he was shot. This is the real story. — Kevin said he got into the fight …
Clive Thompson / Wired News:
You Grew Up Playing Shoot'em-Up Games. Why Can't Your Kids? — I was playing a round of Gears of War, trying to redo a level on "insane" mode, and the walls were painted with guts. I slaughtered my way to the boss, revved up my chainsaw, and sliced into his chest — releasing a fractal fountain of gore.
Apple TV Hacks:
$1000 Bounty for External USB Drive Hack — AppleTVHacks.net and FatWallet.com have teamed up to offer a $1000 bounty for the first team to get an Apple TV to use an external USB drive for storage. — The bounty will be won by the first team to submit a verified process and patch, within the rules:
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Conrad Quilty-Harper / Engadget:Apple TV hacked for RSS and emulation, plus bounty for USB drive support
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Damon Darlin / New York Times:
H.P. Tries to Create Printers That Love the Web — Vyomesh I. Joshi, the senior vice president in charge of Hewlett-Packard's printing division, bounded up to the stage to congratulate his employees on their performance. He was ebullient, and with good reason: revenue, profit …
Derek Hunter / TCS Daily:
Liberals and Conservatives Catch the Regulatory Bug — Over the last 30 years advances in media and communications such as cell phones, 500 channels of television, thousands of new talk radio programs, and the Internet have expanded personal freedom and increased access to information.
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Lars H. Liebeler / CNET News.com:
Perspective: Why Microsoft is under assault from all corners — perspective For those keeping an antitrust scorecard in the IT industry, it is increasingly difficult to keep track of all the players. — Intel was sued in the United States and has faced antitrust charges in Japan, Korea and an investigation in Europe.
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Sean Ammirati / Read/WriteWeb:
Internet Video Hyperaggregation — About a week ago, the hot topic online was NBC Universal and News Corp launching a joint-venture to provide "the largest Internet video distribution network ever assembled." The joint-venture is still months away from being finalized …
Richard MacManus / Read/WriteWeb:
The Age of Instant Intranets - Central Desktop Launches Turnkey Intranet — Today Central Desktop launched the Spring 2007 Release of its collaboration platform. Of most interest in this release is that Central Desktop is introducing "a turnkey Intranet" for its enterprise subscribers.
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