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David Montgomery, whose holding company has bought Germany’s Netzeitung “says he wants to focus on online development in order to sustain print.”
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Alistair Campbell, blogger.
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Mat Toor on MySpace: “Not a day goes by that some death metal group from Belgium asks me to be their friend. … Facebook friends really are your friends rather then strangers trying to score a record deal.”
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Robin Grant: “HMV have lost it – what on earth makes them think that they can compete against Facebook’s $38 million funding, 200 employees and 1.4 million active UK users?”
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Trinity Mirror’s regional editorial director Neil Benson comes out swinging against the “mountainous pile of pompous, tendentious, ill-informed claptrap” in a podcast by three blogging ‘hackademics’…
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Glenn ‘Instapundit’ Reynolds reviews Andrew Keen’s “Cult of the Amateur”.
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To comply with strict German age-verification laws, Flickr users in Germany have been restricted to images marked safe in its filtering tool.
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Simon Bucks: “Since Facebook opened its doors to anyone, its membership has ballooned. And leading the charge are members of the “mediarati” who have been joining in their droves. Most of them, it should be noted, are considerably older than your average
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“Dennis Publishing, the publisher of magazines such as Maxim, has sold its U.S. arm to private equity firm Quadrangle Group. … The deal also includes Maximonline “
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Just the thing to keep the newsdesk alert: The USB Missile Launcher launches a foam missile all of 10 feet.
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Reduce your gadgets’ carbon footprint. Get an Orange wind-powered mobile charger and hope a hurricane passes through your office.
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“Reports that Joost is now talking to hardware vendors about embedding Joost into set-top boxes and televisions will change the market as we know it.”
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“While making flexible displays in monochrome has been difficult, adding colours and making them switch fast enough for full-motion video has been a tougher nut to crack.”
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“Brian Lam, editor in chief of Gizmodo, said in an e-mail that he found it ‘unethical’ to push anything to Digg that’s ‘not our stuff in the first place.’”
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Channel M cameraman John Clarke was beaten up by four youths outside the magistrates’ courts in Ashton under Lyne.
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