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March 2007 - Posts
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Saturday, March 31, 2007 8:50 AM
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This story from the NYT hit home with me today. Not a surprise -- people are feeling busy and feeling frustrated by how they feel. Here's the money quote: Edward M. Hallowell, a psychiatrist and author of “CrazyBusy: Overstretched, Overbooked and About Read More...
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Thursday, March 29, 2007 9:03 PM
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I've been on vacation the last few days, snowboarding at Mt. Bachelor in Central Oregon. (well, mostly on vacation, there was some incident about briefing mail, Charles Fitzgerald has what I think is the last word on the topic). I never skied growing Read More...
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Tuesday, March 27, 2007 9:26 PM
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For starters, I am not going to use this space to talk in detail about the Wired story itself. I have my POV of course, and those who live close enough to me to offer me a pint of beer might get it out of me. But the story is out, like any piece of work Read More...
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Monday, March 26, 2007 7:11 AM
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Well, maybe not. But I did have a moment of cognitive dissonance when I got this email early today, from the NYT, suggesting I subscribe to the WSJ, which I already do. Is this yet another sign that Armageddon is upon us? Advertisement Use The Wall Street Read More...
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Saturday, March 24, 2007 7:55 AM
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Dave Winer has another good post up, this time about journalism and new journalism. He's on my turf now! What next, do I have to start coding? :) Seriously, it's worth a read. I totally agree with him that I'm surprised the MSM is going down without a Read More...
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Friday, March 23, 2007 8:21 AM
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I just don't know what to say about this. Yes, the idea of a virtual world is super interesting and very important. This particular virtual world, hmm, not sure. Hype around second life, fueled by companies eager to appear hip, has the potential to crush Read More...
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Wednesday, March 21, 2007 7:48 PM
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Dave Winer writes about and links to some of the unintended consequences of the deals Google has done with universities to digitize books (I write about Google regularly because of their impact in communications, as a reminder Microsoft is my client). Read More...
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Wednesday, March 21, 2007 7:32 PM
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Via Anil Dash, a great example of marketing at work. Ho ho, at the expense of my client no less, ugh. He compares Shadow Copy from Microsoft with Time Machine from Apple, using screen shots to demonstrate the different selling approach. Okay, fair enough, Read More...
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Tuesday, March 20, 2007 10:49 AM
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Via PBS, a provocative look that takes the contrarian view -- that good journalism is far from being on life support. Hey, I support the thesis! Mostly... Mark Glaser notes the evolution of journalism is STILL producing good investigative pieces: It took Read More...
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Monday, March 19, 2007 8:51 PM
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I've seen a bunch of links to this story about crowdsourcing journalism, from the Monday NYT. When I read it, sans coffee, my eyes rolled up so hard in my head I thought they were going to pop out and roll over the floor. Please. How's this: The Web has Read More...
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Monday, March 19, 2007 8:43 PM
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This unauthorized video ad smacking Hillary Clinton is a Bad Thing. Why? Because someone is hiding beyond anonymity to do a hit job. Last election, people opined that 2006 would be the YouTube election -- I disagreed. 2008? Maybe. What I said then was Read More...
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Friday, March 16, 2007 6:47 AM
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Okay, scoff all you want at the incredible predictions of lost time based on the NCAA tourney. I see the annual event as a great example of how technology both gives and takes away productivity. To whit: Years ago, at best you entered a local NCAA pool Read More...
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Thursday, March 15, 2007 9:32 AM
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One more from the NYT today -- while I'm not a big movie goer, I have a strange interest in the marketing of movies, maybe as a holdover from when I worked at an agency doing promotion and publicity work regionally for a few studios. So I thought this Read More...
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Thursday, March 15, 2007 9:19 AM
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David Pogue, unusually effusive about a service that links all your phone numbers, makes a huge mistake -- and I think this service will quickly vanish. Why? Here is the service, in a nutshell: Its motto, “One number for life,” pretty much says it all. Read More...
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Wednesday, March 14, 2007 10:49 AM
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I've been playing with the NYT Reader application for a while now, it's a pretty good way of replicating/improving the readability of the online site and is way better than a standard browser. There are a number of publications which are looking at similar Read More...
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Wednesday, March 14, 2007 9:44 AM
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Via the WSJ, a good look at the increasing sophistication of personal search, and the corresponding decrease in privacy. The trend lines are everywhere -- kids on myspace, college students on Facebook (heck, even the Ethicist weighs in on the debate! Read More...
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Tuesday, March 13, 2007 7:12 AM
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Viacom drops a $1b bomb on Google today, in this suit. I've been in violent agreement with Mark Cuban from day 1 that this was bad deal for Google and that Youtube had a fundamentally flawed business model. People who talk about Youtube as a community Read More...
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Sunday, March 11, 2007 10:03 PM
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Here’s the question: What is more important, the idea, or the instantiation of the idea? Based on what I’ve been seeing/reading over the past year, it feels like we’re all losing the idea. For example. Second Life – not that interesting. Not very many Read More...
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Sunday, March 11, 2007 5:13 PM
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A few weeks back, I read a story in the New Yorker about The Poetry Foundation. It was an interesting article, about a topic I don't know very much about, and concerning people I don't know. I like the New Yorker, I liked the story, felt somewhat better Read More...
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Saturday, March 10, 2007 11:58 AM
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The WSJ today features the five favorite books about journalism of NPR star Scott Simon. It's a good list. Some day, the ongoing debate about journalism v. blogging will be rendered moot and a memoir of a blogger will easily join this list. Loved the Read More...
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Friday, March 09, 2007 9:25 AM
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This cnet au piece on how random or not iTunes is will spark some news for sure, especially based on the insinuation that there is trickery going on with the labels. Pah. First, I thought Steven Levy did a pretty good job of debunking this in his book. Read More...
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Wednesday, March 07, 2007 7:50 AM
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For a great example of "if you say something enough people will believe it," here is a list of Physics laws That Don’t Apply in Hollywood . Some are pretty funny, but the larger point -- that people are pretty easily conditioned to believe what isn't Read More...
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Wednesday, March 07, 2007 7:40 AM
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The only reason I blog about this is that the reporter I heard on NPR last night was.... Libby Lewis . I heard the story, was sort of paying attention and then did the audio version of a doubletake. Libby Lewis covering Lewis Libby -- too much fun for Read More...
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Monday, March 05, 2007 1:42 PM
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It will be interesting to see if this blows up -- turns out that Wal-Mart was taping phone calls between the company and the NYT. So far, Wal-Mart is doing the right thing -- they fired the employee and sent out a press release . HP, faced with far worse Read More...
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Monday, March 05, 2007 1:38 PM
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Scott Carp, over on publishing 2.0, has a good post up about USA Today noting the disconnect between the praise of the new design by bloggers and social media commentators, and the negative comments from the actual readers of the paper. It's a good reminder Read More...
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Sunday, March 04, 2007 5:45 PM
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Since I moved to Seattle, most weekends I've gone for a long-ish run with my brother. A month or so ago, I set a goal for running an 8k here in Seattle -- Beat The Bridge. Since then, we've picked up the pace a bit. It's been a long time since I trained Read More...
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Sunday, March 04, 2007 8:07 AM
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From Salon, a quick look at one person's view of how online journalism has changed in the past decade, focused on Slashdot. Andrew Leonard is the author, and he makes this good point, one many others would be smart to follow: Incremental improvement assisted Read More...
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Saturday, March 03, 2007 8:30 AM
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This editorial in the NY Times showcased yet another example of how the new power of citizen communication can be incredibly destructive, and how rapidly crises arise in this Wild West online world. More details can be found here and here , but in short, Read More...
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