MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Herebeforeoprah.com Asks The Important Question  —  It’s not yet clear exactly what effect Oprah had on Twitter by featuring the service (and its first million-follower user, Ashton Kutcher) on her show on Friday.  Twitter co-founder Biz Stone tells me he’s going to try and get some numbers …

Guillermo Rauch / Devthought:
The Digg worm that wasn’t  —  Two nights ago I was editing my Digg profile and couldn’t help but think about the recent Mikeyy and Twitter revolt.  Within minutes I had found a XSS exploit that could theoretically allow me to achieve the same.  —  Half an hour later, I had […]

Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
Swedes Demonstrate Against Pirate Bay Verdict  —  Yesterday, The Pirate Bay Four were sentenced to a year in prison, and on top of that each of them was ordered to pay the entertainment industry $905,000 in damages.  The defendants have all anounced that they will appeal, which means that the case is […]

Emil Protalinski / Ars Technica:
MSDN and TechNet get Windows 7 RC?  Public to wait till May 5 (Updated x2)  —  It looks like Microsoft is yet again revealing more than it wants to, according to a Microsoft Partner Program webpage.  May 5 looks like the date that Windows 7 RC will be available publicly.

Emil Protalinski / Ars Technica:
MSDN and TechNet get Windows 7 RC?  Public to wait till May 5 (Updated)  —  It looks like Microsoft is yet again revealing more than it wants to, according to a Microsoft Partner Program webpage.  May 5 looks like the date that Windows 7 RC will be available publicly.

Tim O’Reilly / O’Reilly Radar:
Why Aneesh Chopra is a Great Choice for Federal CTO  —  The news has now been leaked that President Obama intends to nominate Aneesh Chopra as the nation’s first Chief Technology Officer.  The Federal CTO will be an assistant to the President, as well as the Associate Director of the […]

Yu-kai Chou:
Seesmic Desktop will Destroy Tweetdeck  —  TweetDeck vs Seesmic Desktop  —  Up to this point, I have always been a fan of Tweetdeck.  I have told quite a plethora of people to download Tweetdeck as soon as they made their first tweet (yes, I do a search on that) .

Pamela Samuelson / O’Reilly Radar:
Legally Speaking: The Dead Souls of the Google Booksearch Settlement  —  Guest blogger Pamela Samuelson is the Richard M. Sherman Distinguished Professor of Law and Information at the University of California, Berkeley, as well as a Director of the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology …

Anthony Ha / VentureBeat:
Good luck with that funding: Q1 sees lowest VC investment in more than a decade  —  There are two new reports about the state of venture capital investing during the first three months of 2009, and they’re even bleaker than I expected.  Remember when everyone was hoping that the economic downturn […]

Chris Williams / The Register:
BT chief: People don’t need fibre to the home  —  Ford not Ferrari for you  —  Digital Britain Summit BT chief executive Ian Livingstone defended his firm’s limited plans for faster broadband today, arguing there is not enough demand for fibre to the home to justify its cost.