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From the Crunchies website: GigaOm, Read/WriteWeb, VentureBeat and TechCrunch are pleased to announce that nominations for the inaugural 2007 Crunchies Awards are now open. We created twenty award categories to recognize the year’s most innovative technical, creative and business accomplishments of key companies, products and people. We hope you’ll agree that the ...

the importance of fresh, young and raw talent This article is an offshoot of Guy Kawasaki's article, "in search of inexperience". Guy Kawasaki's article was itself a piggyback off of Glenn Kelman's article on the Entrepreneur 2.0 phenomenon. Enjoy. In case you don't have time to read the articles, I'll briefly touch ...

Karl Rove's under fire for calling on nerds to cover his tracks The head of the federal agency investigating Karl Rove's White House political operation is facing allegations that he improperly deleted computer files during another probe, using a private computer-help company, Geeks on Call. This is a pretty big issue that ...

The BBC interviewed the founders of the Pirate Bay, recently. The article: "Views from the Pirate Bay" discusses the difficulty that Swedish police have had dealing with the issue. It's a political problem that has very difficult solutions and it closes with a fascinating political statement: "Technology has ...

Someone's always trying to get the jump in programming, efficiency, and design. There are always a host of reasons for wanting more from your core developer tools. Here's an idea, create a hybrid method for design: Like most organisations the BBC has its own technical ecosystem; the BBC's is ...

Kudos to Amazon, Inc., shame on AT&T for betraying our trust. I've been beyond angry at the "network you can trust -- AT&T" over its willingness to open up customer records, bills, and Internet activity to the government. I've never been a sucker for the "if you aren't doing anything ...

Tech Crunch posted this piece on Google's latest experiments: If you saw this one coming, give yourself a very large prize. Google is experimenting with Digg style voting features on search results that allow users to vote up or bury search results they see. I'd like the very large prize! A ...

So the trend of technology development that will flop continues to receive important coverage by Tech news outlets. Is Amazon lacking in the imagination and innovation department or are they making a strong push for innovation in the future? I'll take a stab at the issue of innovation and digital technology, ...