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Amazon Opens Kindle to All Bloggers
11:55PM Jesus Diaz | If you are a blogger and want to sell a subscription to your blog, now you can sign up for the Kindle Publishing for Blogs beta program. Amazon will convert your full RSS in a Kindle-friendly stream and put it up for sale in their store. More »
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Headset Hotties, the Blog
11:00AM Jason Chen | The Headset Hotties blog documents instances of headset hotties—stock photos of (mostly) women used in low-budget template-based websites. More »
Announcements
9:50AM Nick Broughall | Let’s face it – there are two things that make Gizmodo a great site: gadgets and you guys. We bring the news on the latest gadgets, you guys bring the (mostly) insightful commentary and intelligent discussion. That’s why voting for Giz AU in the 2008 Weblog Awards is like voting for your own awesomeness, which you should totally do.
Giz AU is a finalist in the Best Australian Blog category. And because we really want to win (not for our egos, you understand, but for your egos), we’re asking that you hit the link and vote for us today, tomorrow and every day up until the voting closes on January 13. Not only that, we want you to get your family and friends to vote for us too – remember this isn’t about us, it’s about you.
And while you’re voting, why not pop a vote in for our sister site Defamer AU, who’s a finalist in the Best Celeb Gossip Blog category, as well as one for the mothership Gizmodo US in the Best Technology Blog category.
Thanks guys.
[2008 Weblog Awards] More »
Vote For Giz AU In The 2008 Weblog Awards
9:50AM Nick Broughall | Let’s face it – there are two things that make Gizmodo a great site: gadgets and you guys. We bring the news on the latest gadgets, you guys bring the (mostly) insightful commentary and intelligent discussion. That’s why voting for Giz AU in the 2008 Weblog Awards is like voting for your own awesomeness, which you should totally do.
Giz AU is a finalist in the Best Australian Blog category. And because we really want to win (not for our egos, you understand, but for your egos), we’re asking that you hit the link and vote for us today, tomorrow and every day up until the voting closes on January 13. Not only that, we want you to get your family and friends to vote for us too – remember this isn’t about us, it’s about you.
And while you’re voting, why not pop a vote in for our sister site Defamer AU, who’s a finalist in the Best Celeb Gossip Blog category, as well as one for the mothership Gizmodo US in the Best Technology Blog category.
Thanks guys.
[2008 Weblog Awards] More »
Online
George Orwell Becomes a Blogger: Diaries Published ‘Real Time,’ 70 Years Late
12:30AM Kit Eaton | To mark the 70th anniversary of the diaries of George Orwell they’re being published online “live” as a blog, 70 years to the day he wrote them. The project started August 9th, and so far the entries are about strangely bland stuff: the weather and the antics of catching some snakes at his home. More what you’d expect from Eric Arthur Blair (his real name) rather than deep insights into the mind that created Big Brother. This is his domestic diary, though… the political one (which starts September 7th) will make for very interesting reading. I wonder what Orwell would’ve thought of this idea, and indeed the slightly Orwellian society we seem to be living in. More »
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Fake Steve Starts Real Dan Lyons Blog
9:40AM Brian Lam | The Fake Steve Jobs blog may be gone (for now) but Dan Lyons has started a blog with a somewhat similar style, expanded topic matter, interesting angles on tech and a Newsweek-themed header. The header still says Namaste, but he hasn’t lost that Siooma attitude either. [RealDanLyons] More »
Announcements
Giz Banned For Life and Loving It: On Pranks and Civil Disobedience at CES
3:30AM Gizmodo US Edition | A Gizmodo writer has been banned from CES for a prank. But when I see some fellow press damning us for the joke, I feel sorry for them: When did journalists become the protectors of corporations? When did this industry, defined by pranksters like Woz, get so serious and in-the-pocket of big business? This is totally pathetic. Consumer electronics tech journalism is very tricky. Those who strictly cover commercial CE depend on a powerful handful of companies for the very lifeblood of their content. That’s a dangerous position. A “favour” by a company can turn into the laziest kind of “scoop” imaginable, a scrap from the dinner table for the dogs of journalism. And every gadget journalist has wrestled with his conscience as he gains more access and becomes inseparable from the industry and depends on more and more of these scoops. More »
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FSJ Shutdown Drama Both Fake and Real
2:55PM Brian Lam | Fake Steve confirmed that his “talks with Apple” about shutdown were fake, in a round about way, but slightly more direct for those not quick enough to get it the first time. [Fake Steve] More »
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Software
NEC Software to Put Poor Bloggers Like Me Out of Business
1:26PM Daniel Godfrey | The “business environment virtualisation” software NEC is currently developing may masquerade as a way for companies to keep track of their competitors online (see pie charts, etc), but we here can see it for what it really is: a scheme to create an unlimited army of lifeless tech-blogging drones. With its “cruising of RSS and web pages” for “product features” and algorithmically processing press releases for “conducting a comparative analysis of products,” this software could probably crank out some pretty solid posts when it wasn’t working to crush its master’s rival companies, all without the requisite Mountain Dew and Cheetos breaks. We’re not too worried here, though. We know you guys come for the gadgets, but stay for the red-blooded passion, right? Some relevant bits from the press release after the jump. Oh the irony! More »
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