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Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:
Newspapers are f'ed — Newspaper ad revenues have taken their worst drop in almost 60 years - worse even than 2001. E&P reports: … Is that called whistling in the wind? Or pissing in it? Man, that's denial. — Yes, some of this is as a result of the economic downturn …
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Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:
Decline Of US Newspapers Accelerating — Figures released by the Newspaper Association of America show that the decline of newspapers is more rapid than previously thought, with total print advertising revenue in 2007 plunging 9.4% to $42 billion compared to 2006, the biggest drop in revenue since 1950 …
Kevin Poulsen / Wired News:
Hackers Assault Epilepsy Patients via Computer — Internet griefers descended on an epilepsy support message board last weekend and used JavaScript code and flashing computer animation to trigger migraine headaches and seizures in some users. — The nonprofit Epilepsy Foundation …
Fred / A VC:
Where My Traffic Comes From — Every once in a while I like to show some analytics about this blog. — I get the sense that the sources of traffic to this blog have been changing recently. Let's start by comparing the high level sources of traffic to this blog in the first quarter of 2007 vs the first quarter of 2008:
Dave Altavilla / HotHardware.com News:
Asus Eee PC Desktop, Eee Box Unveiled — The scoop wire was running late tonight and these shots of Asus' upcoming Eee Desktop made their way to our inbox just now, so we thought we'd give you the digital relay on the skinny... literally. Though it's hard to get a sense of size here, this thing is obviously svelte.
Vasanth Sridharan / Silicon Alley Insider:
How To Hack Facebook In 51 Seconds — So Byron Ng isn't a real Facebook hacker. But apparently it isn't hard to become one, if you've got any technical skills at all. Hacking Facebook is a cottage industry, with hundreds or thousands of unpaid workers beavering away.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Adobe AIR Desktop App For FriendFeed Coming — FriendFeed released their API just a few days ago, but third party developers are already scrambling to build on top of the service. — We just heard that Howard/Baines will be releasing an Adobe AIR application for FriendFeed in the next week or so.
Zero Day Initiative / DVLabs:
PWN to OWN: Final Day (and another winner!) — The third and final day of the PWN to OWN contest at the CanSecWest security conference begins today, March 28th at 12:30pm local time (PST) in Vancouver. Yesterday, on day two of the contest, the MacBook Air was successfully compromised …
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Josh / Redeye VC:
I Don't Know... I don't know. — Why is it so hard for people (including both entrepreneurs and VCs) to say these three words? — This past week I had two distinctly different meetings with entrepreneurs. They both were successful serial entrepreneurs. Both were exceptionally smart.
Rain Anderson / That VideoGame Blog:
Consoles to “die out” in the next 5 to 10 years … The man who set up and ran the European Xbox business for Microsoft, Sandy Duncan, believes that consoles as we know them today will “die out” in the next 5 to 10 years. — “The industry is fundamentally driven by technology.
Nathan McFeters / Zero Day:
Black Hat Europe, Day 2: The day that wasn't and Black Hat Europe, Day 3: Begin the presentations — So, for those of you looking forward to a Black Hat Day 2 update with some more from the training sessions... I'm afraid it didn't happen. I had intended to hook up with Adam Laurie for a discussion of his …
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Is VON Creator PulverMedia Dot Gone? — Pulver Media, the New York-based company well known for VON, the trade shows for the VoIP industry and a magazine with the same name might be shutting down, joining the dot.gone club, according to sources. — The rumors of the shutdown of Pulver Media …
