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10:20 PM ET, April 18, 2009

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Tim O'Reilly / O'Reilly Radar:
Why Aneesh Chopra is a Great Choice for Federal CTO  —  The news has now been leaked that President Obama intends to nominate Aneesh Chopra as the nation's first Chief Technology Officer.  The Federal CTO will be an assistant to the President, as well as the Associate Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.
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Amy Schatz / Digits:
Tech Industry Cheers as Obama Taps Aneesh Chopra for CTO  —  It may not be the Cabinet-level post that some were hoping for, but President Obama finally named the U.S.'s first chief technology officer on Saturday morning during his weekly radio and Internet address.
Emil Protalinski / Ars Technica:
MSDN and TechNet get Windows 7 RC?  Public to wait till May 5 (Updated)  —  It looks like Microsoft is yet again revealing more than it wants to, according to a Microsoft Partner Program webpage.  May 5 looks like the date that Windows 7 RC will be available publicly.
Stephen Shankland / CNET News:
What's up, bot?  Google tries new Captcha method  —  Google has released research results about a new test to foil computers pretending to be humans by requiring them to orient an image so it's upright.  —  A persistent problem on the Internet is screening out automated computer systems that can be used …
Zack Whittaker / iGeneration:
Office 2010: new logo, Outlook, and user interface  —  Outlook 2010 has been seen out in the wild, courtesy of an anonymous source within the Education team at Microsoft.  —  This is major news for students as most universities have adopted to Office 2007, which thankfully …
Discussion: ithinkdifferrent
Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
Swedes Demonstrate Against Pirate Bay Verdict  —  Yesterday, The Pirate Bay Four were sentenced to a year in prison, and on top of that each of them was ordered to pay the entertainment industry $905,000 in damages.  The defendants have all anounced that they will appeal, which means that the case is likely to drag on for years.
Kevin Kelleher / GigaOM:
Apple Is Approaching a Defining Moment  —  Come Wednesday, it will be Apple's turn to discuss its results for the first three months of 2009.  But among the crowd of Apple watchers, the discussion has been simmering for months, with the tone shifting from pessimism about recession-whacked sales …
Soulskill / Slashdot:
$74k Judgment Against Craigslist Prankster  —  jamie points out an update in the case of Jason Fortuny, the Craigslist prankster who was sued last year for publicly posting responses to a fake personal ad.  The Citizen Media Law Project's summary of his case now includes a recently entered default judgment …
Guillermo Rauch / Devthought:
The Digg worm that wasn't  —  Two nights ago I was editing my Digg profile and couldn't help but think about the recent Mikeyy and Twitter revolt.  Within minutes I had found a XSS exploit that could theoretically allow me to achieve the same.  —  Half an hour later, I had a working worm ready …
Discussion: ReadWriteWeb and Mashable!
Yu-kai Chou:
Seesmic Desktop will Destroy Tweetdeck  —  TweetDeck vs Seesmic Desktop  —  Up to this point, I have always been a fan of Tweetdeck.  I have told quite a plethora of people to download Tweetdeck as soon as they made their first tweet (yes, I do a search on that) .
Pete Carey / Mercury News:
Silicon Valley unemployment rate jumps to record 11%  —  Silicon Valley's unemployment rate jumped to a record 11 percent last month, and more than 100,000 people are now unemployed and looking for work in the area, the state reported Friday.  The question now is how many more will join them before the recession ends.
Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
ISP Speeds Up Customers' BitTorrent Downloads  —  Over the past few years Internet service providers have been increasingly complaining about the massive load BitTorrent transfers place on their networks.  They claim that this load can reduce the performance experienced by other subscribers …
Discussion: digg.com
 
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Leslie Berlin / New York Times:
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Lolita C. Baldor / Associated Press:
Wanted: Computer hackers ... to help government
Discussion: Reuters and Slashdot
Ryan Tate / Gawker:
YouTube's Sad Studio Deal Just Highlights Hulu's Superiority
 Earlier Items: 
John Cox / Network World:
Palm's webOS lives up to hype, early developers say
Discussion: GPS Obsessed
Dana Blankenhorn / Open Source:
Do not call him the Craigslist killer
Discussion: craigslist blog
Tony Wright / Tony Wright dot com:
Just How Important is the Valley? Let's Look at some Data.
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
iPhone app lets you get away with napping at work
Discussion: textually.org
 

 
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Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:
Jason Cowley, the editor-in-chief of UK magazine the New Statesman, is stepping down from the position at the end of December after 16 years

The New York Times Company:
The New York Times names Dick Stevenson as Washington bureau chief; Stevenson has been at the paper for nearly 40 years and Washington editor since 2021

Ayodeji Rotinwa / Columbia Journalism Review:
A look at the Agora Center for Research, a Ugandan newsroom sitting between activism and investigative reporting, posting its work on various social media sites

 
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