around the blogosphere : 10-23

• TV Links Founder Arrested for Illegal Linking
  So I guess we're going to have to go to ovguide.com for a listing of tens of other link-aggregate sites.  When will we learn?

• Comcast Practically Admits to Controlling Your Bandwidth Usage. So Not Net Netural.
  How about this: a phone plan that charges more for calling cell phones on other carriers, or a cable television provider that doesn't give you access to every imaginable station?

• VCinJerusalem: Where Were Half The People?
  Yossi Vardi: "The killer app is - the people"  AWESOME!

• Techdirt: NBC's Love/Hate Affair With YouTube Firmly In The Hate Position
  That's it, we don't like to share, but we love ourselves, so let's just make this easy on you... use our tools and we can be friends.  Use your own... and we just might sue your pants off!

• Techdirt: Your Kids May Be Telling The Whole Internet Your Secrets
  I don't know about you... but this could be terrifying.

• Blogger Goes Offline With Google Gears
  And soon Google Docs?  How about Zoho?  How about *shudder* YouTube subscriptions?  Granted, this is still a couple years away, but this is why the Gphone will rock!

• SanDisk Wants To Simplify Your PC To TV Viewing
  Why can't we just embed WiFi and and ethernet connection on our TVs and get it over with?  Stream our content to, from and over our home networks and cut out the middle man!  Our set top boxes are already going digital... let's just get this over with.

• getFreshMinds.com | Creativity | Innovation | Ideas so fresh--they should be slapped!: How would you get out of this situation?
  Designing for obscurity, innovating for the sake of progress... these are amazing concepts that are sure to push innovation... in Japan.  The US is kind of like Microsoft.  We aren't always the first out the door, but we're the leader in what we do.

• IF! from PSFK - Why the Apple TV flopped
  There are so many reasons... but the common need is for a system that speaks to our computer's digital media in the same way that our computers do.  We want to play everything we own, not everything we bought in your format.  When will we learn?

• CK's Blog: Peace-of-mind as profit center
  And as we get increasingly more connected and always on (crackberry!), I'd love to see a Bath and Body Works sponsored OFF button.

• This Disaster Will Be Twitterized
  Digital Evolution: WWII was filmed, Vietnam was televised, the Gulf War was televised live, the current Iraq war is being blogged and the California fires are being twittered.

• British Police at it Again: OiNK.cd Admin Arrested
  What's got tens of thousands of active users, sharing, submitting, recommending and discussing media properties both new and old?  BitTorrent.  Now arrest everyone.

• What's at Stake in the Surveillance Debate in Congress
  ... and that is why I love the government.  Sorry, that was for all those isp's, telcos and our federal government, who seem to believe that our freedom of speech includes their freedom to monitor.

• Hillary Clinton Faces a Viral-Video 'Truth-Boating'
  Why hasn't the Clinton Campaign linked a video response?

• TechEBlog » VIDEO: Wok Racing is a Real Sporting Event
  So Germans have wok racing - I'm waiting for the American version: deep fryer racing.