TechCrunch vs. News.com editor: The final round
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Blog: Mike Arrington has his final say--let's hope. So did Dave Winer. And now, Charles Cooper swears this is his final post on "l'affaire FM."
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One's a PC brain, the other's a Mac-head--two PC World editors strongly disagree about owning this week's must-have gadget.
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Also: Adding speed to silicon. Read these stories and more from around the Web on News.com Extra.
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It's not very often that you see something new in News.  News is not exactly new technology, but when personal computers came along, and then widespread networking, it created a whole new playing field for news, that has shaken things up for most of my life. Change comes in fits at starts. First there was the web, then RSS, and now I think we're on the cusp of another bit of change. If you want to see what I think it looks like, check out the home page of nytimesriver.com. But that's not the end of the story. A flat completely chronologic view of news probably isn't enough. And earlier this month at a meeting in NY, two engineers at the NY Times set me off in a new direction, with a very simple bit of advice. They told me to look in the HTML source code of their stories. When I did I saw they had applied a taxonomy to their news flow, and this opened the door to what I would like to show you today -- an outline view of the news.  http://nytimesriver.com/outline/  I believe it's fairly self-explanatory.  The topics are arranged in order of frequency in today's news.  In a previous rendering, the stories were shown in a histogram, but this view I think is much better. You can still see how many pieces relate to the indicated topic, but by clicking on the plus next to each topic, you can actually see the headlines and descriptions, and if you want more you can click through to the full stories. (Initially, the outline was sorted by frequency, with the most frequently occurring keyword appearing first. I changed it, based on feedback, to be alphabetic.) Now, there's still more to do, I showed this to a number of people during the weekend and got some excellent clues on ideas to pursue next, and I will do that. Further, in the process of exploring this, I've been shown the work of other developers who discovered the keywords on their own, and one in particular is very interesting. I'm hoping that these projects will come public so I can show them to you and tell you what I think they mean. This is what I live for, professionally -- the sense of being somewhere with great unexplored potential, a virgin landscape of the intellect. I'm never happier than when I get to play in such a place.  Om Malik: A new way to view news. Please comment on the screen shot page.
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Also: Party like it's 1999: Tech IPOs are back. Read these stories and more from around the Web on News.com Extra.
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Blog: TechCrunch reports that a lot of rumors are spreading about it, but it's still unsubstantiated.
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Tim Wu and Rick Cotton respond to questions from readers in the latest installment of our week-long debate on copyright, piracy, and digital filtering.
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Also: DJ alert: Crack for music techies. See what people are saying on News.com Extra.
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Plus: Are you having an identity crisis? [News.com Extra]
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Decision: Blogs vs. New York Times. For the last couple of weeks I've been emailing with people from the LongNow Foundation and Martin Nisenholtz of the NY Times, to determine who won the bet.  Ultimately we asked the foundation to consider all the argument and make the decision. They published their decision today. It's well worth reading because it answers some of the questions raised by the bet, for example, what is a blog, and how does Wikipedia relate to blogging. I don't agree with everything in the decision, but I do like the result -- we won.  The beneficiary of the bet? The World Wide Web Consortium. I chose them as the charity to receive the proceeds if I won the bet because web standards are what make it all work and the W3C is central to standards on the web.
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Plus: Geek squad comes to the rescue. [News.com Extra]
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Google buys a mapquest of its own. Also: Sharp takes us to the future of television in 3-D & hellip;.  PayPal finds a way to make amends for mistakes & hellip;. and more.
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Also: New business models make upgrading cheaper. See what people are saying on News.com Extra.
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Also: Companies face new rules on e-mails. Read these stories and more from around the Web on News.com Extra.
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Also: Mobile office challenge finds monkeys are distracting. Read these stories and more from around the Web on News.com Extra.
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Also: Flirting, online and off. See what people are saying on News.com Extra.
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Also: Chevy Volt: GM's 'moon shot'. See what people are saying on News.com Extra.