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Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:
Nose, face, cut, spite: Blocking Google — There's been a swine flu of stupidity spreading about the Murdoch meme of blocking Google from indexing a site's content (to which Google always replies that you've always been able to do that with robots.txt - so go ahead if you want).
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Chippy / UMPCPortal:
Sponsorship-supported Crunchpad is alive. ‘Steamrolling’ says Arrington. — I should have been in bed but I got hooked into an excellent Gilmore Gang videocast (below) this evening. Robert Scoble, Mike Arrington, P Rangaswami, Kevin Marks, and Saul Hansell talk a lot about the iPhone and Driod war …
Seamusmccauley / Virtual Economics:
The growing value of URLs you can easily spell out in dead bodies — Probably the funniest bit of commercial ingenuity I've seen these past few months is the growth of corpse-spam in World of Warcraft.You see, it's quite hard, in-game, to spam people with commercial messages.
William Alsup / Groklaw NewsPicks:
Apple Wins Like a Champ - Psystar is Toast — What? You're Surprised? — Psystar just got what's coming to them in the California case. Here's the order [PDF]. It's a total massacre. Psystar's first-sale defense went down in flames. Apple's motion for summary judgment on copyright infringement and DMCA violation is granted.
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Arn / MacRumors:
Core i7-Based 27" iMac Benchmarks Show Significant Improvements — The delivery of the Core i7-based iMacs have generated the usual discussion threads about unboxing, impressions and benchmarks. The performance of the high-end iMacs have been of particular interest due to the new incorporation …
Randall Stross / New York Times:
Apple Wouldn't Risk Its Cool Over a Gimmick, Would It? — “SOME of the best-loved technology on the planet” is how Apple describes its products when recruiting new employees. It's a fair description. — But the love that consumers send Apple's way could flag if the company puts into place …
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Jon Ungoed-Thomas / Times of London:
Belle de Jour revealed as research scientist Dr Brooke Magnanti — The secret life of Dr Brooke Magnanti, an obscure research scientist, is revealed today as she unmasks herself as the writer behind the pseudonym Belle de Jour. — Her identity has been one of the great literary mysteries …
Los Angeles Times:
Blogging moms wooed by food firms — As food makers lavish trips and goodies on parenting bloggers, critics see a shrewd marketing ploy. — Andrea Deckard, a stay-at-home mom in Monroe, Ohio, points to a post on her Mommy Snacks blog. Both Frito-Lay and Nestle have brought her to Los Angeles …
Todd Bishop / TechFlash:
Ballad of a Windows 7 fanboy — Most kids in talent shows dance or play instruments. Fifth-grader Will Smith made a musical pitch for Windows 7 instead. — After seeing this video on YouTube yesterday afternoon, I almost didn't believe it was real, so I sent a message to the person who posted it …
Saul Hansell / New York Times:
Is There a Method in Cellphone Madness? — HERE'S a consolation prize to the millions who recoil in bafflement from cellphone companies' labyrinthine price plans, with their ever more intricate arrays of minutes, messages and megabytes: Economists don't understand them, either.
Greg Kumparak / MobileCrunch:
Android 2.0 source released, already ported to the G1 — While Android 2.0 has been floating around on Motorola DROIDs for over a week now, one important chunk of it has been under lock-and-key: the source. Even amongst manufacturing partners, we're told, Google hasn't been completely open …
Paul Miller / Engadget:
Droid experiencing external speaker problems, could be a software issue? — It's no reason to panic just yet, but apparently a good amount of people are having trouble with the external speaker on their Motorola Droid cutting out for no reason. It seems to be software-related …
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