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The Nightly Build, compiling the ones that got away:
* Contrary to what TechCrunch and several other news sites reported earlier today, Wikipedia did not ban the nation of Qatar from accessing the Wikipedia site. [According to a post][1] from Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, one IP number of Qatar origin was "temporarily blocked for less than 12 hours... a block of an entire nation would go absolutely against Wikipedia policy."
[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:82.148.97.69 "Wikipedia denies blocking Qatar"
* Dave Winer of RSS fame claims that not only did he not invent RSS, [RSS wasn't really invented][2], rather "something else happened, something harder than invention, imho -- an activity that we don't have a word for in the English language." Evolved organically?
[2]: http://www.scripting.com/2007/01/02.html#rssWasntInvented "Dave Winer: RSS wasn't Invented"
* Another bizarre outburst from a MSM journalist. Joel Stein of The Los Angeles Times (I'm told that this LATimes thing is apparently printed on paper (!?) and available at "news stands" -- whatever) [doesn't care what you think][3] and doesn't want you to email him. Guess what Digg users are doing by the thousands right now?
[3]: http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-stein2jan02,0,3287162.column?coll=la-opinion-columnists
* Macworld is coming up next week and Apple, master of secrecy and hype, is at it again. A tantalizing new teaser graphic on the company's website [reads][4]: The first 30 years were just the beginning. Welcome to 2007.
[4]: http://www.apple.com/ "Macworld Teaser"
* Reuters is running a story entitled *[Programmers to blame for hard-to-use software][5]* in which "analysts" throw out some gems like this one: "... makes little sense to computer novices accustomed to working with typewriters or pen and paper..." I dare anyone to to name me a business field in which typewriters are still in use.
[5]: http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=technologyNews&storyID=2007-01-02T232857Z_01_N22270966_RTRUKOC_0_US-SOFTWARE-PLATT.xml&pageNumber=1&imageid=&cap=&sz=13&WTModLoc=NewsArt-C1-ArticlePage1 "Programmers to blame for hard-to-use software"
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