Matt Richtel / New York Times:
In Web World of 24/7 Stress, Writers Blog Till They Drop  —  SAN FRANCISCO — They work long hours, often to exhaustion.  Many are paid by the piece — not garments, but blog posts.  This is the digital-era sweatshop.  You may know it by a different name: home.

Cam / HermitWorks:
Quake 3 + iTouch  —  So we’ve been playing around with Quake 3 and Apple’s iTouch.  Scott grabbed the icculus source and with a few modifications had it running pretty quick.  Here’s a video of him with two iTouch’s in multiplayer.

Seth Weintraub / 9 to 5 Mac:
Walt Mossberg loves AppleTV…and 3G iPhone in 2 months!  —  Walt Mossberg talks about how the US cable companies and DSL providers are screwing the US over with tricks and slow speeds….  (Yah, you know you can get 100Mb Fiber in France for €50/month?)

Enigmax / TorrentFreak:
Lawyer Who Threatened File-Sharers is Banned For 6 months  —  A lawyer who sent out hundreds of thousands of threatening letters demanding that alleged file-sharers pay 400 euros, has been banned from operating for 6 months.  Elizabeth Martin, who had been working with Swiss anti-piracy outfit …

Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:
Microsoft Gives Yahoo Ultimatum: Sign Deal In 3 Weeks Or We Cut Bid  —  ANALYSIS: In this ultimatum Microsoft makes a compelling case that Yahoo’s board is violating its fiduciary duty to shareholders by not even engaging with Microsoft.  This, combined with the threat of a bid cut … […]

Microsoft:
Microsoft Sends Letter to Yahoo! Board of Directors  —  Microsoft Sends Letter to Yahoo! Board of Directors  —  REDMOND, Wash. — April 5, 2008 — Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) today sent the following letter to the Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO) Board of Directors:  —  Board of Directors

craigslist blog:
Kinder, Gentler C&Ds Please  —  I’m getting some well-deserved flak for a ham-handed cease-and-desist email I sent to a blogger recently.  The dialogue had remained cordial until he revealed his business model - running deceptive textads such as the ones below, which got on my nerves:

Richard Clayton / Light Blue Touchpaper:
The Phorm “Webwise” System  —  Last week I spent several hours at Phorm learning how their advertising system works — this is the system that is to be deployed by the UK’s largest ISPs to pick apart your web browsing activities to try and determine what interests you.

ZDNet:
Gartner: Open source will quietly take over  —  In a few years’ time, almost all businesses will use open source, according to Gartner; even though IT managers may be unaware of it, and prefer to talk about fashions such as software as a service.  —  Open-source promoters have welcomed …

Felix Salmon / Portfolio.com:
Blogonomics: Valleywag Pay Slashed  —  Jordan Golson can’t be happy: Nick Denton has cut the amount of money he gets per thousand pageviews to $6.50 from $9.75.  That’s a 33% pay cut, on a per-pageview basis.  What about on an absolute basis?  —  Well, the pageview rate is set on the […]