Donna Bogatin asks whether it's time to feel bad for Google.
Not yet. Maybe someday.
We don't know when. We'll don't know why.

Google against Polish poets (see Donna Bogatin).
Google does everything to make Larry Dignan's prophecy come true.

Free software for Cuba (see Slashdot).

Update: See also the good post from Dana Blankenhorn.

Yahoo with a Digg-like service (see TechCrunch).
But after Jason Calacanis has still been killed for being a Digg epigon no one seems to be interested in this story.

Yahoo: Say 'Thank You' to the lonesome fighter Jason Calacanis!!!

The YouTube Party is getting a bit harder (see TechCrunch).

Robert Scoble asks:

"Anyway, how do we keep up with this flow that is coming through the blogs?"

Getting influence in the news realm has changed in the last years. See Techcrunch about the Digg Rock Stars.

Slashdot asks: Apple, The New Microsoft?

Adrian Kingsley-Hughes asks whether Steve Jobs is serious about his "I would sell DRM-free music if I just could".

German politicians and police tried to fight against terrorism with home-made trojans. Unfortunately the judges won't let them (see Slashdot).

Google seems to be a little bit DMCA-scary (see Donna Bogatin).

No more Top Diggers list (see Donna Bogatin).

That's great 'cause the normal Digger (like the blogger, podcaster etc.) just wants to increase the wisdom of the crowd.

And Jason Calacanis is not sooooooo sad about it.

Nicholas Carr wrote his second post about Googlebombing.
No matter what Google tries to defend itself against those bombs. We all have the simplest solution at hand: Just don't rely only on Google.

A new epsiode in Robert Scoble brave fight against the dark side of the blogosphere.

(Btw.: Nicholas is even brave. See "The Lonely Battle")

Good to know that sometimes the A-bloggers have the same problems as we D-bloggers (see Robert Scoble).

See also episode 1 of the Blogosphere Board.

Donna Bogatin asks whether Google is a democracy.
Of course it is.

Microsoft tried to change Wikipedia page by asking a blogger (see Techcrunch).

But not only Microsoft is sometimes annoyed about the unwritten rules of Wikipedia (see Donna Bogatin).

"Michael Arrington has publicly admitted fears of intimidation by Wikipedians has dissuaded him from attempting to correct errors in Wikipedia’s TechCrunch entry:    

'While wikipedia appears to be open to all, I’ve seen numerous examples of changes getting immediately deleted for what appears to be political reasons rather than the pursuit of pure knowledge. And I’ve also seen people be attacked for making changes that appear to be factual and correct.     The TechCrunch listing on wikipedia has a number of errors. But there is no way in hell I’d ever think about fixing those errors. The wikipedia community has completely intimidated me to the point where making a change to that site is unthinkable.'

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But why has only Wikipedia the right to set the rules?
In a lot of countries you have the right to publish an account from an opposing point of view at the same place the original article was published. Shouldn't Wikipedia also adhere to these basic rules?

Bad news:     The Zune is crippled even more (see Steve O'Hear).
Good news:   Microsoft gives us something to laugh about (see Slashdot).

Mathematics found amazing insights about Nobel Prize winners (see Slashdot)

"A new study finds those who won Nobel Prizes between 1901 and 1950 lived about 2 years longer than nominees who didn't win."

Steve Ballmer says "Zune's DRM is Microsoft's future" (see Mary Jo Foley)