Michael Moore plans Net-only film premiere (Steven Musil/CNET News.com) (11)
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Steven Musil / CNET News.com: Michael Moore plans Net-only film premiere — Filmmaker Michael Moore plans to premiere his latest documentary exclusively on the Internet for free, forgoing the traditional theatrical release. — Slacker Uprising , which documents Moore's 62-city tour through swing states during …
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Umang Saini said:
The fine print (from Slackeruprising.com) - "The free download is only available to those residing in the United States and Canada. In order to receive the free download on September 23rd, you must confirm that you are a resident of the United States or Canada."Anyway, nobody outside would be interested in seeing M.Moore's 62 city tour for appealing to young voters.
Opinion: Why Google has lost its mojo - and why you should care (Preston Gralla/Computerworld) (8)
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Preston Gralla / Computerworld: Opinion: Why Google has lost its mojo — and why you should care — Computerworld) Google has gone from innovative upstart to fat-and-happy industry leader in what seems like record time. Put simply, the search giant has lost its mojo. That's good news for Microsoft …
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Marc said:
I'm sorry, are the alternatives better?!
Techmeme: Jobs entrusts a NYT columnist with the truth about his health … (Matt Marshall/VentureBeat) (3)
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Matt Marshall / VentureBeat : Jobs entrusts a NYT columnist with the truth about his health, even before he tells Apple shareholders — An Apple (AAPL) spokeswoman lied recently when she said Steve Jobs' haggard look lately was due to a “common bug,” a remarkable piece in the New York Times this weekend strongly suggests.
First It Was Song Downloads. Now It's Organic Chemistry. (Randall Stross/New York Times) (10)
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Randall Stross / New York Times : First It Was Song Downloads. Now It's Organic Chemistry. — AFTER scanning his textbooks and making them available to anyone to download free, a contributor at the file-sharing site PirateBay.
Techmeme: The Silicon Valley VC Disease (Robert Scoble/Scobleizer) (3)
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Robert Scoble / Scobleizer : The Silicon Valley VC Disease — Yesterday at the Mobile Web Wars event (here's video of that), held right before the TechCrunch party, David Hornik, partner at August Capital (he's the host of the TechCrunch party) told the audience that he would not invest in pure iPhone apps because the iPhone ….
Apple's Culture of Secrecy (Joe Nocera/New York Times) (3)
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Joe Nocera / New York Times: Apple's Culture of Secrecy — “No one wants to die,” said Apple's chief executive, Steven P. Jobs. “And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it.” — It was a little over three years ago that Mr. Jobs spoke those existential words, in a commencement address at Stanford.
Techmeme: Breaking news- eReader for the iPhone in the works (James Kendrick/jkOnTheRun) (1)
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James Kendrick / jkOnTheRun : Breaking news- eReader for the iPhone in the works — I read so many ebooks and I do it using the great reader application eReader. I have over 350 books in my eReader bookshelf and was happy to hear from the Fictionwise founder that they would continue to develop versions of eReader for different platforms.