Daniel Terdiman / CNET News:
Are Demo and TechCrunch50 fragmenting their audiences? … Update, 12:36 p.m. PDT: Business Week now says it is planning to send a reporter from its print side to DemoFall to complement the online reporter it is sending to the TechCrunch50.  —  If you’re a fan of high-tech product announcements, next […]

Alana Taylor / MediaShift:
Old Thinking Permeates Major Journalism School  —  “Nowadays it’s essential for journalists to blog,” says Professor Mary Quigley to a class of 16 NYU journalism students.  The class is titled “Reporting Gen Y (a.k.a. Quarterlifers),” and it’s one of the few NYU undergrad journalism classes that focuses on new media.

Matt Cutts / Gadgets, Google, and SEO:
Twitter added nofollow to “www.” links in their Bio field  —  Yesterday John Battelle emailed me to ask about Rae’s post.  This will be a little inside baseball to some people who don’t live and breathe search and Twitter, but I figured I’d take what I emailed to […]

Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Screenshots And Video Of The New Joost  —  So much for Joost’s carefully prepared plans to release a browser version of their TV over IP service later this month.  News leaked this morning that Joost would be abandoning their year old XUL based desktop client in favor of a browser based […]

Kaj Arnö:
The rumours on Monty resigning  —  We have a rumour of MySQL co-founder Michael “Monty” Widenius resigning, as posted by Valleywag and expanded by Sheeri Kritzer Cabral.  —  Usually, I wouldn’t comment on rumours.  But as I’ve been asked copious amounts of questions, let me make an exception today.

Sam Oliver / AppleInsider:
Analyst braces clients for “underwhelming” Apple event  —  American Technology Research analyst Shaw Wu put out a call to clients on Friday, saying they should be prepared for a slight letdown at Apple’s event next Tuesday unless chief executive Steve Jobs pulls a rabbit from his black turtleneck.

Electronista:
Microsoft to copy Apple Genius strategy  —  Microsoft on Friday said that its $300 million marketing campaign will now involve in-store representatives to promote the brand, the company’s general manager of corporate communications, Tom Pilla, says.  Effectively mimicking Apple’s Geniuses …

Clive Thompson / New York Times:
Brave New World of Digital Intimacy  —  On Sept. 5, 2006, Mark Zuckerberg changed the way that Facebook worked, and in the process he inspired a revolt.  —  Zuckerberg, a doe-eyed 24-year-old C.E.O., founded Facebook in his dorm room at Harvard two years earlier, and the site quickly amassed […]

The Boy Genius / Boy Genius Report:
Full PRADA II specifications!  —  We just got a heads up from one of our trusty sources, and they’ve come through with full PRADA II specs for us!  In case you don’t remember, the new PRADA II handset will feature a slide-out QWERTY keyboard as pictured above.  Here’s […]

Jeremy Kirk / PC World:
Researchers Build Malicious Facebook Application  —  A team of researchers have built a malicious Facebook program an experiment to demonstrate the possible dangers of social networking applications.  —  The experiment shows the ease with which attackers could dupe large number of users …