The Talk Show: Live From WWDC
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Linked List: April 2, 2007

Monday, 2 April 2007

Yankees Win 

They beat the Devil Rays 9-5. Too bad the Phillies lost.

Twitter: Is Brevity The Next Big Thing? 

Steven Levy on Twitter for Newsweek.

Michael Tsai on the Mailsmith 2.2 Semi-Public Beta 

I’ve been using some of these features for so long (in private testing) that I had forgotten that they were new — like the support for inline spell-checking. The spam scoring feature, where each messages gets a visible spam score from 0–100, makes it very easy to scan the spam mailbox for “maybes”.

MacBreak Weekly Special: The iTunes and EMI Deal 

Podcast with Leo Laporte, Merlin Mann, Alex Lindsay, and special guest yours truly, talking about this morning’s news from EMI and Apple.

Audio From the EMI/Apple Presentation 

Now available for download.

Jackass of the Week: Cory Doctorow 

Writes up EMI/iTunes news for Boing Boing without mentioning his widely-linked February 23 article for Salon, wherein he accused Jobs of not meaning what he wrote in “Thoughts on Music”. Doctorow then:

I doubt Jobs’ sincerity. I suspect he likes DRM because it creates an anti-competitive lock-in to Apple.

Doctorow today:

I could not be happier right now. I really hope Apple decides to make a web-based version of the iTunes store so that I can buy iTunes tracks in future using Ubuntu Linux

Don’t hold your breath on that one.