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Jason Calacanis / The Jason Calacanis Weblog:
WIRED journo won't do email interviews—ironic. — A WIRED journalist pinged me for some comments on Michael Arrington and his A-list blogger status. I told the journalist to send me the questions by email and he refused. He said Dave Winer did the same thing.
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Dave Winer / Scripting News:
Transcription errors — Jason Calacanis was contacted by the same reporter who contacted me. I'm mentioned in Jason's post, but somewhere along the line there was a transcription error. I did not offer to do the interview via email, I made a different offer. — Here's what I said: "Not generally doing interviews these days.
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Dylan Tweney / Epicenter:
Calacanis Won't Do Phone Interview — Cowardly — Jason McCabe Calacanis is complaining about a Wired reporter who wants to do an interview with him, but refuses to do it via email. He says it's "ironic" that a magazine covering the digital age refuses to use email for its interviews. — Ironic?
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Dan Gillmor / Center for Citizen Media:
Interviews, Email or Live — Wired News calls Jason Calacanis "cowardly" for refusing to do an interview except by email. Pretty thin-skinned response to Jason's fuller explanation of why that's his policy. — Updates: Wired's Fred Vogelstein posts the entire email exchange he had with Jason on this topic.
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Mike / CrunchNotes:
With Friends Like These — Despite my frequent jabs at Wired, they were (and I mean "were") considering doing an article on TechCrunch and the upcoming TechCrunch20 conference. Fred Vogelstein (a very well respected journalist - this is the guy Microsoft was keeping a file on) was pinging people to get their perspective.
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Business Wire:
Attorney for Fred Anderson Issues Statement Regarding Settlement of Claims with the SEC — SAN FRANCISCO—(BUSINESS WIRE)—The following statement is attributed to Mr. Fred Anderson's attorney Jerome Roth, a partner at Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP in San Francisco.
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John Murrell / Good Morning Silicon Valley:
Ex-Apple CFO: I cannot tell a lie — Steve did it — As anticipated, the SEC dropped the hammer today on two former Apple execs in connection with its investigation into stock-option backdating (see "And that's why Mr. Jobs' office has the Teflon wall covering and the extra insulation").
Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:
Report: 80 percent of blogs contain "offensive" content — Blogs are known to be a free-for-all for "expressive" content, but according to a new report by ScanSafe, a vast majority of blogs host content that is considered "offensive" and potentially "unwanted."
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Business Wire:
Amazon.com Announces First Quarter Sales Surpass $3 Billion, up 32% Year over Year — Operating Profit Grows 38% — Raises Financial Guidance — SEATTLE—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN - News) today announced financial results for its first quarter ended March 31, 2007.
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Yahoo!:
Yahoo! Music and Gracenote Present Song Lyrics from U2, Prince, The Beatles, Elvis Presley, Kanye West, Radiohead and More — Gracenote Features Song Lyrics from All Five Major Music Publishers, Creating the Largest Free, Legal Song Lyrics Service for Consumers
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Nick White / Windows Vista Team Blog:
Windows Vista Beta 2, RC1 and RC2 set to expire — On 31 May 2007, all Customer Preview Program (CPP) pre-release versions of Windows Vista will expire. If you are running a pre-release version of Windows Vista (Beta 2, RC1 or RC2), you will begin to receive warning notifications about the upcoming expiration on 18 May.
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Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:
CastTV raises $3.1M to launch better video search — San Francisco's CastTV, a site that says it can search video better than leading players like Yahoo and Google by turning up Javascript-hidden files and other information, has raised $3.1 million from well-known venture capitalists.
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David A. Utter / WebProNews:
Telegraph Cluelessly Attacks Google News Indexing — This time it is the UK-based Daily Telegraph that is complaining about a need to protect their content from search engines. — Which makes us wonder if they, like Copiepresse and AFP before them, are willfully clueless …
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Jeff Atwood / Coding Horror:
Where Are All the Open Source Billionaires? — Hugh MacLeod asks, if open source is so great, where are all the open source billionaires? … I can immediately think of one reason there aren't any open-source billionaires: — Most competition for open source software comes from other open source software.
A List Apart:
The Web Design Survey, 2007 — Designers, developers, project managers. Writers and editors. Information architects and usability specialists. People who make websites have been at it for more than a dozen years, yet almost nothing is known, statistically, about our profession. Who are we?
Dell:
No Spin Zone: Dell Ushers In Better Mobile Storage Reliability With Solid State Drives on Select Notebooks — Commits to Offer New Technology Across Next-Generation Latitude Product Line — Dell today announced that it is offering a 1.8-inch 32GB* solid state drive (SSD) …
Jon Udell:
Rewriting the enriched web — When I interviewed Bill Gates at the September 2005 Professional Developers Conference, one of the topics we discussed was the just-announced WFP/E (Windows Presentation Foundation/Everywhere). Amusingly, he remarked: … In the usual course of events …
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Gizmodo:
Onkyo Debuts World's First XM, Sirius, HD Radio Tuner — We hit up Onkyo's press event in Jersey City this afternoon where in addition to its new line of uber-receivers and HTiBs, the company also quietly unleashed the world's first three-way radio tuner (it's the one on the bottom).
Bloggers Blog:
Print Magazine for Bloggers and Podcasters Launches — There is a new print magazine called Blogger & Podcaster Magazine. This is the first print trade magazine for the industry. The magazine's website is located at bloggerandpodcaster.com. The magazine also has a blog located here.
