Journalism is Burning Or How Breaking News is Broken  —  On a day when Alan Mutter told us at Radar about his blog post on the ten-year low for ad sales in print newspapers,  —  I had the thought that most of a newspaper is a waste of print.  Much of it goes unread and […]

How Long Before You Purge?  Apparently Never for the Gap  —  One of the most discussed topics in my Internet marketing career has been around purging customer/user email lists.  When we create a new customer database, this is always one of the topics I spec: how long before we purge.

Source:   CenterNetworks -
Author:   Allen […]

Storm Worm Dwarfs World’s Top Supercomputers  —  The network of compromised Microsoft Windows computers under the thumb of the criminals who control the Storm Worm has grown so huge that it now has more raw distributed computing power than all of the world’s top supercomputers, security experts say.

Source:   Security Fix
Author:   Brian Krebs
Link:   […]

On the Internet, A Tangled Web Of Classified Ads  —  With So Many Sites, Sifting Is Difficult  —  A few years ago, a classified ad for Andrew Davis’s 2001 Mitsubishi Montero SUV might have been limited to two lines of descriptive shorthand: A/C, pwr pkg, 6cyl AT, 2wd, $9k firm.

Source:   Washington Post
Author:   Sam […]

CEDIA EXPO 2007  —  Denver, CO - Colorado Convention Center  —  Make your business decisions easier in one simple step.  Go to CEDIA EXPO.  —  Only CEDIA EXPO makes your life easier with 1-stop shopping for EVERYTHING you need to excel in the residential electronic systems industry.

Source:   CEDIA Custom home theater, audio, video and […]

Hey, Who’s He?  With Gwyneth?  The Google Guy  —  MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — The gallery of photos lining a hallway at Google’s headquarters here is filled with the faces of luminaries who have visited the company: Mikhail Gorbachev, Bill Clinton, the Dalai Lama, Muhammad Ali and Jane Fonda.

Source:   New York Times
Author:   Steve Lohr
Link: […]

Code to unlock iPhone cracked  —  LOS ANGELES (CNN) — A group of anonymous software developers said they will soon start selling a program that will allow iPhone owners to use the hugely popular device on cell phone systems around the world and not just with AT&T.

Source:   CNN
Link:   http://edition.cnn.com/2007/TECH/09/01/apple.iphone/

Less is more for Ruby on Rails, inventor says  —  (InfoWorld) - Don’t expect much to be added to Ruby On Rails this year.  When David Heinemeier Hansson gives an update on version 2.0 of his Web application framework at its user conference in September, he’s as likely to talk about what’s coming out as […]

NBCU’s Response: Never Asked To Double Price; Shows Will Be On iTunes Through Early December  —  This is beginning to sound like a Jane Curtain-Dan Akroyd skit … NBC Universal (NYSE: GE) never asked to double the wholesale price and insists NBC shows will be sold by the iTunes Store through early December.

Source:   paidContent.org
Author: […]

Update On Netscape.com: It’s Done, Possibly Moving To WOW.com.  Big AOL Layoffs Coming.  —  We’ve gotten an update on the controversial post we wrote earlier this month on the possible shutdown of the fourteen-month-old old Digg-clone Netscape.  Too many AOL execs have had their eye …

Source:   TechCrunch
Author:   Michael Arrington
Link:   http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/08/31/update-on…