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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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Ars Technica, The Blog Herald, Valleywag, IP Telephony, VoIP, Broadband, InformationWeek Weblog, Deep Jive Interests, Invisible Inkling, Connecting the Dots, kottke.org, the j. botter weblog, J. LeRoy's Evolving Web, Zoli's Blog, Fractals of Change, Guardian Unlimited, Epicenter, gapingvoid, Roam4free, The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs, Mark Evans, WebProNews, Digital Common Sense, Smalltalk Tidbits …, Enterprise Web 2.0, Burningbird, Social Media Club and 901am
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Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:
No twinkie badges here. — I was doing my best to ignore Tim O'Reilly's misguided effort to play hall monitor to the blogosphere, wishing it would just go away. But unfortunately the New York Times did not ignore it. How could it pass up a juicy opportunity to make us all look like the louts they all too often think we are?
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Scripting News, rexblog.com, Smalltalk Tidbits …, Life On the Wicked Stage and John Furrier
Mike / CrunchNotes:
My Thoughts On O'Reilly's Code of Conduct — Tim O'Reilly has posted a draft code of conduct that bloggers would voluntarily accept and promote. This all stems from the Kathy Sierra/Chris Locke issue from a couple of weeks ago. The New York Times is all over this as well.
Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
Code of conduct or not? — Tim O'Reilly just posted the draft of a Blogger's Code of Conduct that he's hoping we all adopt. I instantly asked the mob hanging out on Twitter what they thought. Brett Nordquist had this funny thought: — "Something tells me the sites with the 'Anything Goes' logo will be more interesting."
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 …
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 …
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Evan Blass / Engadget:Apple sells 100 millionth iPod, deems experiment a success
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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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Apple 2.0, TechCrunch, GigaOM, Today @ PC World, Between the Lines, CrunchGear, MacUser, Howard Lindzon, MobileCrunch, Startup Meme, Gadget Lab and paidContent.org
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Froosh / HipMojo.com:Yahoo/Sansa's Music Player Foray: 100M iPods too Late?
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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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Business Wire:
AMD Updates First Quarter Outlook — SUNNYVALE, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—AMD (NYSE:AMD - News) today announced it expects to report revenue of approximately $1.225 billion in the quarter ending March 31, 2007. Revenues declined sharply quarter-over-quarter for the Computing Solutions segment …
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Sumner Lemon / InfoWorld:
Google apologizes for using part of rival's software — Google has not explained how part of Sohu's software ended up inside the Pinyin IME — Google on Monday issued a brief apology for using part of a software application developed by rival Sohu.com in a recently released Chinese software tool of its own.
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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 …
Mike / Techdirt:
Why Google Isn't Stealing Newspaper Content — from the make-it-stop dept — This is just getting ridiculous. Google may have signaled its willingness to pay up with its deal with AFP, and now it seems that newspaper publishers are interested in taking them up on the offer.
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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The Apple Core, Podcasting News, Gadget Lab, MacUser, Compiler, Mobility Site, Engadget and Gadgetell
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.
Ronald Grover / Business Week:
Media Moguls Make Their Move Online — Former media titans such as Eisner and Bochco are finding lots to like as they produce new shows aimed at social networking's explosive growth — The acting is wooden, the monologue darn near nonexistent. But there's something mildly addicting about Prom Queen …
Carlo / Techdirt:
Studios Continue To Ignore Just How Badly They Hamstring Legal Download Sites — from the blue-in-the-face dept — It's been clear since the outset that the movie download sites supported by Hollywood studios have been far too clunky and user-unfriendly to attract many users …
