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John Battelle / FM Blog:
A Follow Up — Well, we certainly stepped in it, judging by the "blogstorm" over Nick's post this past Friday. Over the past 24 hours scores of highly respected voices have chimed in on Microsoft's campaign, and I wanted to take the time to read as much of it as I could, really listen, and figure out where I came down in all of this.
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Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:
Buying their voices — Federated Media stepped in it with their latest campaign, getting some of its bloggers to issue not so bon mots on behalf of a not so bon advertiser, Microsoft. — I tried to warn Federated when I adamantly turned down two prior similar campaigns …
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Publishing 2.0, Scobleizer, PC World: Techlog, Valleywag, blackrimglasses.com and Webomatica
Mike / CrunchNotes:
Hah. Battelle Says His Authors Should Have Disclosed — More happenings on the sponsored text debate: John Battelle, CEO of FM Publishing, the ad network behind the ads, throw his authors, including us, under a bus today when he writes: … hmm. Disclose? Disclose what?
Dan Blank:
Are Bloggers and Marketers Really Evil? — The blog world is trying to reinvent journalism, and finding that in many ways, they have to start back at the very beginning. Accusations have been flying this week over online advertorials with bloggers. It all seems to have started with this Valleywag post …
Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
If you are going to sell your soul... There's another blogstorm about a new style of conversational advertising. — Let's back up a second. First, I wasn't approached for this advertising campaign. I've done similar ones, though, for Intel. Why didn't I get called out?
Dave Winer / Scripting News:Comments on people-ready — Re the "people-ready" discussion.
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The Doc Searls Weblog, Dembot, Mickeleh's Take, Geek News Central, Smalltalk Tidbits … and Technovia
Randall Stross / New York Times:
The Human Touch That May Loosen Google's Grip — ONCE upon a time, the most valuable secret formula in American business was Coca-Cola's. Today, it's Google's master algorithm. — In the search business, however, there's no rival to play the role of Pepsi.
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Matt Cutts / Gadgets, Google, and SEO:
The role of humans in Google search — Randy Stross wrote an interesting article for the New York Times about search with a human touch, and I wanted to talk about the role of people in Google search. — On this post, you get not one but *two* disclaimers. It's all part of my read-one-disclaimer, get-a-free-disclaimer program!
Philipp Lenssen / Google Blogoscoped:
Google Threatens to Close German Gmail Due to Local Law — According to information from Heise, Google warned that they might disable Gmail in Germany as last fallback should the German government maintain its position in regards to a newly passed law on record-keeping and supervision of internet traffic.
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Ahmed / Tech Soapbox:
Hot off the Presses: Wowhead sold for over $1 million — Posted by Ahmed as Making the Monies, Sweet 2.0, I Don't Get it Department at 12:06 AM EDT — For those that have read my about page, I used to be involved in the MMO (massively multiplayer online) space.
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Guillaume Carbonneau, radr.ca:
Windows share as seen by Mac OS X Leopard — A friend of mine got his copy of Leopard and it looks like the Apple team dropped a funny easter egg when viewing a Windows share. — Look closely … Billy said about 2 hours ago : — I still think a pie graph of M$ market share to apples is funnier.
Ryan Block / Engadget:
New details about the iPhone — Remember the winning Engadget commercial, "The Long Arm of Steve Jobs"? We posted it after the break, but finding someone who's spent some serious time with a pre-launch iPhone and getting them to talk is basically a lot like that.
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The iPhone Ranch
Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:
Real Evil: ISP Inserted Advertising — Texas based ISP Redmoon has implemented software that hijacks pages being visited by their customers by placing Redmoon's own ads on these pages. — The technology is provided by NebuAD, which boasts that ISP delivered advertisements are an untapped source of revenue.
Paul Buchheit:
Three types of ideas - bad ones are often the best — Product ideas can be divided into three categories: — Obviously good ideas that are very difficult to implement. Efficient cold-fusion, flying cars, and a lot of other sci-fi ideas fall into this group.
Reuters:
Online video recorders stoke new piracy concerns — It took Brian Baker only five minutes to persuade a major U.S. television network that it needed his company's technology to protect their programs from Web pirates. — Using software easily found on the Internet, Baker …
