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Macon Phillips / White House.gov Blog:
Obama Administration Responds to We the People Petitions on SOPA and Online Piracy — The White House has responded to two petitions about legislative approaches to combat online piracy. In their response, Victoria Espinel, Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator at Office of Management and Budget …
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Tim O'Reilly / Google+:
I was pleased to see the measured tone of the White House response to the citizen petition about #SOPA and #PIPA — https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/ petitions#/! /response/combating-online-piracy- while-protecting-open-and-innovative- internet — and yet I found myself profoundly disturbed …
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@gravitycollapse, @glynmoody, BuzzMachine, Daring Fireball, Threat Level and Gov 2.0
Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Pirates! Rupert Murdoch Rails About Obama, Google, and Silicon Valley — On Friday, Rupert Murdoch and his top executives gathered for a day-long private confab in Las Vegas to think big thoughts about digital stuff. I'm guessing there wasn't a session entitled “How Great is Google?”.
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The Next Web, @rupertmurdoch, @om, @rupertmurdoch, Gizmodo, Business Insider, NEWS.com.au, @jackiedanicki, @the_analyst, @pkedrosky, @tolles, @martinsfp, @cdixon, @cdixon, @felixsalmon, @jeffjarvis, TorrentFreak, @ivanthek, @stevenlevy, Ed Bott, @sacca, @siracusa, Betabeat, @michaelwolffnyc, @fredwilson, @ethank, @tnlnyc, @antderosa, @rhh, WebProNews, ReadWriteWeb and FT Tech Hub, more at Mediagazer »
Hunter Walk / Elapsed Time:
Last saturday i woke up mad - a #BlackoutSOPA origin story — Last saturday i read that news networks were undercovering the SOPA/PIPA debate - in fact there was evidence that the networks owned by SOPA/PIPA supporters were less eager to cover the topic than their independent colleagues.
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CNET, hypebot and The Huffington Post
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
SOPA Delayed; Cantor Promises It Won't Be Brought To The Floor Until ‘Issues Are Addressed’
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GamePolitics blogs, Fast Company, WebProNews, CNET, VentureBeat and GigaOM
Timothy B. Lee / Ars Technica:
Obama administration joins the ranks of SOPA skeptics
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The Firewall, VG247, Liquidmatrix Security Digest, Forbes, Deadline.com, Rex Hammock's RexBlog.com, Betabeat, Lamar Smith and Ars Technica
Daniel Terdiman / CNET:
Wikipedia considering joining SOPA blackout protest
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Electronic Frontier Foundation, Maximum PC, Electronista and Gizmodo
Daniel J. Wakin / New York Times:
Ringing Finally Ended, but There's No Button to Stop Shame — They were baying for blood in the usually polite precincts of Avery Fisher Hall. — The unmistakably jarring sound of an iPhone marimba ring interrupted the soft and spiritual final measures of Mahler's Symphony No. 9 at the New York Philharmonic on Tuesday night.
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Daring Fireball, Andy Ihnatko's Celestial Waste …, @fredericl, @marcoarment, Pulse2, PC Magazine, msnbc.com, MacNN, Mobiledia, thousandfold echo, The Verge and Betabeat
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Marco Arment / Marco.org:
Designing “Mute” — An iPhone alarm disrupted a Philharmonic performance: … And a lot of people started condemning the iPhone mute-switch behavior, which doesn't mute all sounds all the time. — John Gruber defended Apple's implementation. Andy Ihnatko strongly disagreed and argues for a hard-line …
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Robert Scoble / Google+:
What +Hillel Fuld doesn't know about Windows Phone and its chances in the market — So Hillel laid out why I'm wrong, in the article on Business Insider linked to below, when it comes to Windows Phone's chances. — But, see, he's an observer and hasn't done the hard work.
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Hillel Fuld / Business Insider:
Here's Why Robert Scoble And The Rest Of The Pundits Are Wrong: Windows Phone Will Be A Success — This is a guest post from digital marketer Hillel Fuld, you can follow him on Twitter here. — You know Microsoft did SOMETHING right when everyone seems to be talking about the Windows Phone platform.
John Battelle / John Battelle's Search Blog:
Our Google+ Conundrum — I'm going to add another Saturday morning sketch to this site, and offer a caveat to you all: I've not bounced this idea off many folks, and the seed of it comes from a source who is unreservedly biased about all this. But I thought this worth airing out, so here you have it.
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Business Insider, VentureBeat and Forbes, Thanks:steverubel
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Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
To Understand Google Favoritism, Think “If Google+ Were YouTube”
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VentureBeat, SocialTimes.com, Bloggers Blog, VoIP & Gadgets Blog and Mashable!, more at Mediagazer »
Elizabeth Woyke / Mobilized:
Samsung Merging Its Bada OS With Intel-Backed Tizen Project — Samsung said it is working on merging its homegrown “bada” smartphone operating system with Tizen, an operating system project the company is conducting with chipmaker Intel. — Samsung is merging its bada smartphone operating system …
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PhoneArena, Liliputing, Engadget, xda-developers, Electronista, Pulse2 and The Verge
Paul Graham:
Schlep Blindness — There are great startup ideas lying around unexploited right under our noses. One reason we don't see them is a phenomenon I call schlep blindness. Schlep was originally a Yiddish word but has passed into general use in the US. It means a tedious, unpleasant task.
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Diego Basch's blog and Justin Vincent
Peter Walker / Guardian:
‘Piracy’ student loses US extradition battle over copyright infringement — TVShack's Richard O'Dwyer faces 10 years in jail for operating website US authorities say hosts links to copyrighted material — A judge ruled on Friday that a 23-year-old student can be extradited to the United States …
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Daily Mail, Reuters, Boing Boing and BBC
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune:
Apple factory inspections turn up scores of labor violations — An addendum discloses for the first time the names of 156 Apple suppliers — From Apple's Supplier Responsibility Progress Report — Apple's (AAPL) sixth annual “supplier responsibility” report is sure to be closely read by both critics and competitors.
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App Advice, MacGeneration, iLounge, PC World, The Verge, TechCrunch, This American Life Updates, ExtremeTech, MacRumors, VentureBeat and The Next Web
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Harrison Weber / The Next Web:
Apple becomes the first technology company to join the Fair Labor Association
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PR Newswire, iDownloadBlog.com, Examiner and Daring Fireball
