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Monday, November 17, 2003

 Reading the tea leaves: Evan is contemplating adding social networking to blogger.
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 Gates denies Microsoft had talks with Google in any form.  As an officer of the most watched public company in the world, I believe him.  Google's KPCB hype machine must just be clearing its throat for the IPO.  At this point, I distrust Silicon Valley VCs more than Microsoft (by a substantial margin) and have no desire to see the same personalities fleece the investing public one more time.
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 The Economist:  The slow march of freedom.  I am fairly certain you can't accelerate this process via violence. 
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 WSJ.  Soros seeks to unseat Bush.  Here is the article if you don't have a subscription (I don't usually do this, but it is too important not to).

"America, under Bush, is a danger to the world," Mr. Soros said. Then he smiled: "And I'm willing to put my money where my mouth is."  Mr. Soros believes a "supremacist ideology" guides this White House. He hears echoes in its rhetoric of his childhood in occupied Hungary.


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 NYTimesBut Mr. Denton is thinking about how to expand the blog market, perhaps by creating product-focused blogs for major marketers. His next big project is a site called Kinja, which is supposed to be the blog of all blogs, compiling the best of Web log writing from thousands of different blogs.
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