Quoted: Walt Mossberg does not know when the 3G iPhone will be launched.
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Or so The Wall Street Journal's famed personal tech columnist told AlleyInsider.com after several bloggers picked up on Mossberg's "3G in 60 days" comment during a recent presentation broadcast by Beet.TV.
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This is a great example of how the blogosphere echo chamber can create a "story" that may not really exist:

Cnet interviews John Battelle of Federated Media.

Quoted: We want it at the kinds of CPMs that supported the magazine and the cable industry, which is above $20, $30, $40, $50 cost per thousand. Advertisers will pay that once they feel like they're getting that value for it, and once the media is created that proves that value, and it's not just the publisher's job to create that media, it's the publishers working in partnership with the marketers and that what we try to do it with them.

AOL picked up Bebo.

Quoted: AOL, part of the Time Warner media empire, is to acquire leading social networking website Bebo in an $850m (£417m) cash deal.

Quoted: (CNN) -- Fire engulfed five luxury homes Monday morning at a subdivision north of Seattle in what could be a case of ecoterrorism, officials said.
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A sign with the letters "ELF" was found at the scene of the fires in the "Street of Dreams" development in Woodinville, Washington, said Chief Rick Eastman of Snohomish County Fire District No. 7.

What is the carbon offset of burning down five McMansions anyhow?

Money, time, energy and the _right_ product.

Quoted: I polled a bunch of start-up entrepreneurs about their biggest stresses in preparation for my talk at the Northwest Entrepreneur Forum. I decided to post all the feedback here on the blog of curiosity.

via Marcelo -- http://seattle20.sampasite.com/blog/What-stresses-entrepreneurs-the.htm

John Cook on...

Quoted: ....what the differences are between Seattle and Silicon Valley.

This is his response to that New York Times article Derek faved.

John Cook has behind the scenes look at the Liquid Planner crew as they prep for Demo.

Quoted: LiquidPlanner Chief Executive Charles Seybold sat in his Bellevue office -- cans of Jones Soda pop piled up next to his computer monitor and colorful drawings and sticky notes taped on the white walls.

BusinessWeek interview with Seesmic's Loic Le Meur.

Quoted: With backing from high-profile investors, Loïc Le Meur is giving new meaning to the idea of "building a company online".

Also,
Quoted: ...Robert Scoble, a former Microsoft (MSFT) executive who's now a high-profile blogger.

Um...

Quoted: The growing confrontation between Google and Microsoft promises to be an epic business battle. It is likely to shape the prosperity and progress of both ...