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Exit Strategy: Suicide!
Originally uploaded by Ben Brown.

MyPodcastNetwork

SplashCast, launched MyPodcastNetwork today. Listeners can aggregate playlists of podcasts via RSS feeds to share by embedding the player in your blogs or social networking profiles. Plus use the SplashCast console to make your own podcast and add to the mix.

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Utah Says Oops About About Law Regulating Trademarks & Search Ads

After warnings from their own State Attorney General that a law requiring the Utah specific registration of trademarks would likely violate the US Constitution's protections for interstate commerce and place an unfair burden on Search Engines Utah State legislators passed it last March. Belatedly they talked with Overstock, Yahoo, AOL, eBay and Google learning that of its adverse effects. Now they say oops!

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Sirius Dumps Podshow - Satellite Radio Loses

Sirius, scrambling to make a business out of technology nobody wants, cut their support to Podshow instead of expanding support to podcasting in general. I agree with Paul Colligan, "The future of media is on-demand. Anyone not providing that is as vital to our future as black and white TV". Podshow may not be the best content provider, may burden its podcasts with terrible commericals and has the most god-awful website since '98, but it does have a bunch of on-demand content and Sirius doesn't.

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song

hfyl
Originally uploaded by quique garciatorres.

A Wiki for Song Lyrics

Find song lyrics on LyricWiki or if they're not there, add them. Let's put our heads, ears and hands together to make a lasting legacy of the music we love. A free site, no advertising -- way cool.

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Holographic Video May Be Coming

Affordable, practical holography displays may be just around the for PCs and Gaming Consoles. Researchers at MIT have a way to make holographic video on a standard graphics processor. The new system's called Mark III creates 3D, real-time models of objects in a scene.

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PdF 2007: The Flattening of Politics

Pace University, May 18, 2007 - Technology and the Internet are changing democracy in America. Personal Democracy Forum will conference around Social Networks, Tipping Points and Organizing, Embracing Voter-Generated Content with Arianna Huffington, Jay Rosen, Kim Malone, Robert Scoble, Jeff Jarvis, Cheryl Contee, Eli Pariser, Sara Horowitz, Josh Marshall, Ruby Sinreich, Craig Newmark, Joe Trippi, Becki Donatelli, Andrew Keen, Ellen Miller, Chris Rabb, David All, Todd Ziegler, Allison Fine, Clay Shirky, Liza Sabater, Brian Dear, Ben Rattray, Steve Urquhart, Mindy Finn, Mike Turk, Zack Exley, Walter Fields, Robert Greenwald, John Aravosis, Anil Dash, Ian Bogost and others.

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Apple Rumors

Playing with my new MacBook Pro
Originally uploaded by miss_rogue.

Apple's Subnotebook 'Delayed' Until Late 2007/Early 2008?

Appleinsider now believes that Apple's "ultra-thin and lightweight notebook" with NAND flash may take more time than originally projected. The "MacBook Pro Thin" has become the new iTablet of perpetually rumored Apple products. The "MacBook Pro Thin" has become the new iTablet of perpetually rumored Apple products. Citing a maturing timeline, people familiar with the initiative now have the chic notebook tracking for the latter half of the year, with a contingency plan in place to transition the device into a Macworld 2008 product should engineers require the additional time.

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