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February 2007 - Posts
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Tuesday, February 27, 2007 10:40 AM
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Jason Calacanis takes a pretty good shot at the lack of transparency for Digg in a post yesterday. There's some fair stuff here, and Jason notes that he founded (and then left) a competing site. It feels like it was just yesterday that Kevin Rose was Read More...
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Tuesday, February 27, 2007 9:12 AM
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Seriously, this blog is not really all about Wikipedia. But Timothy Noah at Slate stirs the pot a bit on HIS bio, its creation, deletion and reinstatement. What a great example of both the best and worst of the Wikipedia process and output. To restate: Read More...
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Sunday, February 25, 2007 8:51 PM
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Nice story in the NYT about the importance of video search today. The key point is made just where it should be -- at the top of the article: THE World Wide Web is awash in digital video, but too often we can’t find the videos we want or browse for what Read More...
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Sunday, February 25, 2007 4:41 PM
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The current issue of the New Yorker, not available online, has a great story titled "The Kona Files" about the HP surveillance drama from last year. It is by far the best account yet of what happened and why, with interviews from a number of the people Read More...
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Friday, February 23, 2007 9:32 AM
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David Kirkpatrick at Fortune has a good column/interview with Jimmy Wales of Wikipedia. Jimbo has much more nuanced view here of the value and use of the tool than I've seen before -- good stuff. And from a few days ago, Jason Calacanis writes about technical Read More...
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Friday, February 23, 2007 7:26 AM
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I was reading the WSJ edit page this morning and saw their editorial about Steve Jobs and his comments re: education and unions from a conference in Austin on Feb. 16. I'll admit, I spewed a bit of coffee at this line (bold mine): If Apple CEO Steve Jobs Read More...
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Thursday, February 22, 2007 12:27 PM
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Ad Age has a good report about what Hearst is doing overall with its online properties, looking first at Esquire. There is general agreement that having the right mix of print and online will be key to any publication thriving for the next decade, the Read More...
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Wednesday, February 21, 2007 7:30 AM
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Great story on A1 of the WSJ today, looking at the ongoing challenges Google and YouTube face in their desire to strike a deal with video producers. It's long, but well worth the read, because it provides details and perspective not seen elsewhere. Mark Read More...
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Tuesday, February 20, 2007 8:49 PM
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I've been reading the very sobering series about Walter Reed Army Medical Center by Dana Priest and Anne Hull. It was hard to read, because it was about real lives and real problems, things that aren't easily solved. But now, because of the reporting, Read More...
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Monday, February 19, 2007 8:55 AM
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Chris Anderson weighs in. His key point: First, let's agree that "media" is anything that people want to read, watch or listen to, amateur or professional. The difference between the "old" media and the "new" is that old media packages content and new Read More...
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Sunday, February 18, 2007 9:54 PM
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Ah, some things never change -- the best story is always about conflict, so easy the story almost writes itself, as it does it does in this story looking at old and new media. In several hundred words, it paints the picture of "old" media, mad as hell, Read More...
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Sunday, February 18, 2007 8:39 PM
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Anil Dash has a thoughtful post up about the recent discussion on hiring of bloggers by companies and political campaigns. The nut of it: But I think the more important question is whether the blogger and the company that hires him/her are both set up Read More...
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Thursday, February 15, 2007 9:27 PM
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Dare's post about the confusion surrounding any easy to understand definition of social media made me laugh -- he nailed the sweet spot of my blog -- talking about PR, complaining about Wikipedia, discussing the change in how companies communicate to Read More...
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Thursday, February 15, 2007 8:52 PM
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Years ago, I lived in North Carolina, at a time when you couldn't get good bread. As a result, I started baking bread, and haven't stopped since. I experimented with sourdough there, with little luck, and gave up. Then, when I moved to the Northwest, Read More...
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Wednesday, February 14, 2007 6:24 AM
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As follow up from my post from last week, the second Edwards blogger resigned yesterday. Both got in hot water mostly for things they said prior to joining the campaign, and both got taken down by a pretty small (350k tops) special interest group , lead Read More...
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Tuesday, February 13, 2007 1:46 PM
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It just struck me that while I spend a lot of time on this blog talking about the changing nature of communication, I haven't noted that here at Waggener Edstrom we're always looking for great people to lead that evolutionary charge. Well, we are. You Read More...
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Monday, February 12, 2007 8:52 PM
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Two smart guys, Don Dodge and Mark Cuban, have an exchange of ideas about the future of the PC, the role of edge computing, the potential to make better use of game consoles and the idea of the resurrection of the Network Computer. I read Mark's original Read More...
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Monday, February 12, 2007 10:21 AM
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We start hearing things like: "It's 105 degrees out today, but with the wind chill, it really feels like 85!" So, I loved this Slate article debunking wind chill. It's a great reminder about two things: 1. Media in general are just terrible at math. Want Read More...
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Sunday, February 11, 2007 5:06 PM
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Couple of good stories out there. First, this AP story about internet users transformed into news reporters. Lots of fluff, no real content, and no hard questions answered -- I'm sure a "tip jar" is really going to cover the cost of investigative reporting. Read More...
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Saturday, February 10, 2007 2:54 PM
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Via Anil Dash , I read this very thoughtful look at walls in the real world and in the online world, and the value and difference of both. Here, Danah Boyd reflects that we tend to look at walls in meatspace as generally a good thing; they keep things Read More...
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Friday, February 09, 2007 1:43 PM
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I've been in Utah at a conference for the past few days. It's not about technology, which is a bit of a shock to my system. ;) For starters, I discovered something about travel, to whit: if you book a flight using the Alaska Air system from Seattle to Read More...
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Friday, February 09, 2007 11:08 AM
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Over in Salon, Scott Rosenberg has a good opinion piece up about the blogging on/blogging off that's happening in the Edwards campaign. He asks the right questions/makes the right points here: I suppose some of this is inevitable when the practice of Read More...
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Wednesday, February 07, 2007 2:36 PM
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At least, one without a print version? In this fascinating article stemming from a conversation at the World Economic Forum, Arthur Sulzberger talks about the future of the Gray Lady. Excerpts: Given the constant erosion of the printed press, do you see Read More...
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Wednesday, February 07, 2007 12:39 PM
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Wow, Steve Jobs' memo on music sure did stir things up yesterday. Setting aside the content for just a minute, let's take a look at the way Apple chose to communicate on this issue. Dave Winer notices that Apple usually goes direct to one publication Read More...
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Tuesday, February 06, 2007 9:20 AM
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Driving in to work through the fog, I spent the last five minutes or so l istening to this NPR story about China . It was billed as a story about the Year of the Pig, but it was much more -- the reporter used the conceit of the upcoming celebration and Read More...
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Monday, February 05, 2007 12:42 PM
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That's the question that Jason Calacanis asks regarding the Super Bowl ads and the future of advertising. There are a number of issues here. First, it is totally clear that the cost of entry to do interesting/provocative video work has dropped to such Read More...
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Sunday, February 04, 2007 9:02 PM
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There was some concern last week that we'd seen the last blog post from Fake Steve. But it looks like he's soldiering on , regardless of the legal issues and complaints. Good for him. Lord knows the pressures of having a blog, let alone a fake one! The Read More...
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Sunday, February 04, 2007 8:43 PM
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We're into day three of the 'outrage' about Viacom insisting that Google remove its videos from YouTube. Google says this is an affront to its community, Mark Cuban disagrees. In a big way. Naturally, Cory Doctorow has a different view, and the entire Read More...
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Thursday, February 01, 2007 9:05 AM
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While this blog post from Gizmodo on how to get ready for an HD superbowl is really about tech and gadgets, it also illuminates how the nature of blogs (equal parts attitude, opinion, facts) can do a better job of helping people make decisions than all Read More...
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