What Would a Non-AP World Look Like?

  In a previous article I wrote that the AP is dead, killed by blogs and aggregation. A reader named Chip asked, "And then what? So if AP is dead, what about the content creators? This discussion was prompted by a speech by the CEO of AP here. Chip continued,

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Google-y PC Turns Heads

It’s not an official, made-in-Mountain View Google PC.  Not at all.  But the inexpensive Everex TC2502 gPC is about as close to that mythical beast as we’ve yet come.

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Powerset Exec Shuffle Looks Like Comedy Sketch

In “Monty Python and the Holy Grail,” the Black Knight always gets a laugh by claiming that the loss of both his arms is “just a flesh wound.”  Now Powerset’s COO has left the company, its CEO is changing roles, and it, too, claims to be okay.

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Google To Topple Baidu With Short Domain Name?

Someone who’s too weak, lazy, or pressed for time to type eight letters and a period is in serious trouble.  But anyone who would rather type eight than three is just silly, and so Google China has unveiled a new domain name: G.cn.

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