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AFP - Tina Brown, the high-profile former editor of Tatler, Vanity Fair and The New Yorker, unveiled a new website on Monday, a collection of news, opinion, blogs, links and video known as "The Daily Beast."
- AP - As Agriprocessors Inc. was getting stung by criticism after a federal immigration raid snared hundreds of its workers, "a blog by people who live and work in Postville" appeared in its defense in May. - 
AFP - Google has launched an enhanced blog tracking service that helps people mine a growing mountain of online commentary for gems worth reading.
- NewsFactor - Google on Wednesday revamped its Blog Search tool with a news-like presentation. The tool looks more like Techmeme, Blogrunner and Tailrank, aggregating blog posts. - U.S. News & World Report - MOSCOW--A new chill is spreading among Russian bloggers following the death of the journalist-owner of an opposition website. - InfoWorld - Microsoft plans to incorporate the jQuery JavaScript library into its Visual Studio platform, according to several blogs published on Sunday. - 
AFP - Twitter, the popular micro-blogging service, has launched a new site, Twitter Election 2008, to allow users to share news and comment on the US presidential election.
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AFP - When Merlin Mann is on the go and needs to access his computer information he steps into the cloud. Mann, a 41-year-old technology blogger, is one of thousands of Americans who are shunning packaged software in favor of programs served up as services available on the Internet.
- PC Magazine - Check out our NextFest 2008 Photo Blog slideshow to see familiar NextFest faces and new arrivals, and check back throughout the weekend for more photos of the event. - PC Magazine - A collection of bloggers, political activists, and other technology luminaries sent a letter to both presidential candidates on Friday asking them to make the debates truly open to the public. - Reuters - The launch of MySpace Music ran into controversy on Thursday after the leading independent music trade body complained that its small music label members had been shut out and treated like second class citizens. The new music site opened shop with millions of free songs for streaming and paid downloads, but without agreements covering hundreds of labels representing well-known artists like Franz Ferdinand, Tom Waits, Arctic Monkeys and Bjork. - AP - In Utah government, blogging is becoming so 2007. - 
Reuters - Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler on Wednesday sued unknown bloggers who the singer said impersonated him on the Web, writing about the death of his mother and other "intimate details" from his life.
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PC Magazine - Turn off the rumor mills, pull down the mocked-up artwork, and say goodbye to the blogger speculation. Google and T-Mobile's G1, the first mobile phone built around Google's open-source, Linux-based Android platform, is officially a product.
- PC Magazine - Gearlog is hosting a live blog of the launch of the T-Mobile G1 in New York. The phone is the first to use the Google Android operating system.
