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With Technorati apparently securing 6.5 million in funding those in the RSS industry are sitting up and taking notice. Nice to see those that have embraced RSS technology and building cool tools getting the cash. Makes you wonder what is happening in the Atom front. [Wired]
This document produced by Robert Scoble is a great read for any aspiring weblogger not to mention those that own companies that are running or thinking about running a corporate weblog. Great read and has been added to me permanent reading list. [The Corporate Weblog Manifesto]
The gang over at SETI without a doubt have 100's of thousands of computers using non utilized CPU cycles to look for ET. Now a scientist is using the same technology to give him more processing power than all of the super computers in the entire world. In my opinion if I new my non utilized processor power is going
PC Magazine has dug up some evidence that the Security Center that is installed with XP Service Pack Two has a huge hole in it. If the hole is exploited it could give users a false sense of security or worse. [PC Magazine]
All good geeks have cool desktop backgrounds. Doc has offered up some nice pics that remind me of some I shot from a airplane over Japan a number of years ago. Check out what he has offered up. [Doc Searls]
I get lot's of request for links, and I cannot always post comments on every site that is submitted. Without exception those that are running MP3 weblogs have a special place in my heart. Not a lot of content on this new site but we will give him the benefit of the doubt. [cleanly-copacetic.tripod.com]
The Justice department today raided 5 homes and 1 Internet Service Provider going after a group called the Underground Network which where using Direct Connect P2P. It will be interesting to see how many people they take down after they get done analyzing the information on those computers. [ZDNet]
This makes me a very happy man. I was pricing Intel chips yesterday and the store manager who I am good friends with mentioned the price drop and told me to come back later in the week and they would have a new batch of chips and the reduced pricing. This will allow me to get a little more bang
Apparently a DVD manufacture in Taiwan was producing DVD players which outputs could be recorded. The MPAA does not like it when companies push the boundaries that allow consumers to have fair use of the data that they buy. I suppose some naysayer will say hey you don't buy music you license it. Well semantics aside I feel everyone should
A group of record labels plan on introducing a disk that would be a CD on one side and an DVD on the other. This is so they can put one good song on one side and one good music video on the other and sell the rest of the junk for $39.95. Supposedly this is to allow artist a
I am all for competition in the market place but with Microsoft supposedly on the verge of launching it's own online music s I wonder what kind of restrictions they will bring to the market place with their new Digital Rights Management technology. [SiliconValley.com]
Over the past several weeks my inbox has filled up with request for software reviews, link request and story request. I have not been blowing you all off and will get to you as soon as I catch up... Thanks for your patience.
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