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John Edwards talk at Gnomedex

I am not surprised that most of the conversation were democrats standing up and asking what they can do to beat the republicans. There were a few good questions on net neutrality, but I am sure that the republicans in room felt pretty uncomfortable. But the session was in some people's in the room opinion almost content free.

Todd Cochrane

Paid Product Evangelist that hide they are getting Paid

I have a friend that is a pretty popular blogger, and I asked him today why he had been talking about a certain product so much. He confided in me that he was being paid to be a product evangelist. When I told him that I had never heard him disclose that he was getting paid to evangelize the product

Todd Cochrane

Sony Music wants loggers to promo videos, music

Is Sony smoking crack, do they realize that they still have to step up and apologize to the community for their actions and their PR mistake of not stepping up and saying that they are sorry for all the harm they caused and continue to cause with the Root kit debacle that earned Sony a five year product buying ban

Todd Cochrane

Bill Gates to reduce role at Microsoft

Bill Gates held a press conference today announcing that he is stepping down from day to day activities at Microsoft, in a prepared statement released it says: "Bill Gates will transition out of a day-to-day role in Microsoft effective July 2008 to spend more time on his global health and education work at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and

Todd Cochrane

AOL Copies DIgg

Well seems that instead of buying Digg AOL is gonna try and compete with the site by rolling there own. Interesting to say the least. [www.beta.netscape.com]

Todd Cochrane

MPAA versus the EFF

In a cross-talk interview done by the BBC resulted in a some good dialog from the knight in shining honor at the EFF and the evil empire leader at the MPAA [BBC]

Todd Cochrane