This Week in Tech 79

Viking dairy farms, Scoble vs Winer, and subscription music stores...

• Dave Winer and Robert Scoble had an argument as to whether Microsoft was an innovator or not.
• Universal is trying to crack a deal with Apple for royalties on the iPod.
• Movie companies now want piracy concessions from Apple.
• Walmart is offering downloads of Superman Returns on the cheap for people who buy the DVD.
• Bush is depriving North Korea of various gadgets.
• Psiphon is a program that will provide a proxy to view censored content.
• The Russian government says "nyet" to allofmp3.com, but they said that they're not going anywhere.
• Google Answers has closed up shop.
• Chacha is trying to do what Google Answers did.
• Glam is a metablog of fashion run by a curator.
• The Huffington Post wants an online presidential debate.
• The National Institute of Standards and Technology is recommending that the 2007 version of the Voluntary Voting Systems Guidelines decertify direct record electronic voting machines.
• AMD and Nvidia are being targeted in an antitrust investigation.
• Certain U.S. companies will need to keep track of all emails, instant messages, and other electronic documents generated by their employees.
• James Kim and his family has gone missing.