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April 2007 - Posts
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Monday, April 30, 2007 9:59 AM
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Dare has been on a roll on his blog, tons of good stuff in the past week. In particular, I like this observation about how the comment design on Slashdot and Digg drives different results and the appearance of quality/thought. It's worth thinking about Read More...
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Monday, April 30, 2007 8:08 AM
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It's hot in Las Vegas, and I'm here for the second Mix event . Coming to this sort of event is one of the best parts of my job. If you're not here -- check out the event site and you'll get the sense you are! email digg delicious live it! Read More...
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Saturday, April 28, 2007 9:00 PM
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It was a beautiful spring day in Seattle, and the family ended a day spent mostly outside at the Olympic Sculpture Park in downtown Seattle, a very cool place. My favorite sculpture so far is Father and Son, two bronze statues in a fountain, where the Read More...
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Thursday, April 26, 2007 5:42 PM
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Jason Calacanis says "no." I disagree. A couple of points: 1. I don't think live interviews are about gotcha journalism, as Jason says. So far, the richest form of communication is face to face. Second is phone and email and all else is a distant third. Read More...
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Thursday, April 26, 2007 6:14 AM
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There is something truly refreshing about an honest, over the top rant, and Nick Carr delivers such a beauty in spades in his most recent post about Wikipedia and its offspring. It it truly a thing to behold, and has the added benefit of making some good Read More...
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Wednesday, April 25, 2007 10:09 PM
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Jeff gives out details for the Mix blogzone. I'll be there, for sure! MIX is my kind of event -- smart people, cool technology, lots to talk about. What's not to like? email digg delicious live it! Read More...
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Tuesday, April 24, 2007 9:00 AM
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Another egregious example of poor use of the embargo, courtesy of Valleywag. I wrote about this last time they did -- feels as relevant today as it was then. cs Tags: Valleywag email digg delicious live it! Read More...
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Tuesday, April 24, 2007 7:19 AM
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Great story A1 on the Journal today looking at the impact an email can have, and how companies today need to respond in a truly 360 degree way. Last November, an employee at Kaiser sent a company wide email extremely critical of a program to convert paper Read More...
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Monday, April 23, 2007 1:20 PM
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Some good stuff over the weekend. In no particular order: Peggy Noonan had a good column on Saturday re: VaTech. She makes the point that there are days where it feels we have squeezed all the meaning out of our words. She notes: I wondered about the Read More...
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Friday, April 20, 2007 9:47 AM
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Anyone who cares about the role of the media should watch the PBS show "Buying the War" which will air next Thursday. E&P has seen and writes this review. I've said before that the failure of the MSM to serve as an aggressive check on power, and to Read More...
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Friday, April 20, 2007 7:11 AM
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I read this WSJ article on praising workers and kept waiting for the aha moment or punch line -- what was this doing in the Journal? What was the point? Is this really a trend? For example: Employers are dishing out kudos to workers for little more than Read More...
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Thursday, April 19, 2007 9:22 AM
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Dave writes about the VA Tech tragedy and the implications on video blogging, YouTube, ustream, etc. His point: I said we hadn't forseen this use of the technology because, as utopians, we tend to look for the good stuff. I liked to think I had a balanced Read More...
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Wednesday, April 18, 2007 7:08 AM
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According to this WSJ article, page views a a key metric are going the way of the dodo, a consummation devoutly to be wished. Perhaps this will mean the end of long stories spread over six pages in order to generate six additional page views, one of my Read More...
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Wednesday, April 18, 2007 7:01 AM
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Thanks to Lee Gomes at the WSJ for his column today pointing to fora.tv , an organization that compiles and posts lecture series from think tanks, universities, etc. As Gomes notes, Their goals are ambitious. Fora.tv's is to be for ideas what ESPN is Read More...
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Tuesday, April 17, 2007 8:42 AM
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Dave Winer posts today about the blur between private and public, and along the way makes some points that are relevant to a very broad audience. His key point: But we're entering a phase of the evolution of web culture where the parts of people's lives Read More...
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Sunday, April 15, 2007 10:14 PM
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Very insightful piece by William Baldwin from Forbes on telecommuting and real estate. Here is the key point: But economic tsunamis take a while to arrive. The arbitrage between Chinese and American wages that became possible in 1979 is only now becoming Read More...
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Sunday, April 15, 2007 9:12 PM
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I baked bread again this weekend, a sourdough wheat. This is something I've been doing now for nearly 20 years, and the magic is still the same. There is this moment when the flour and yeast and salt and sometimes oil and sometimes honey stops...being....that... Read More...
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Tuesday, April 10, 2007 10:17 PM
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I have a new computer, the HP Tablet 4400 running Windows Vista Enterprise. One of the many good parts about my job is that I get new technology on a regular basis. New computers, new phones, etc. What strikes me each time is how deeply personal my computing Read More...
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Monday, April 09, 2007 10:27 PM
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Living up to his reputation, Anil Dash pens a thoughtful piece that puts some of the recent discussion on codes of conduct and free speech in a broader historical context, as much as historical exists in blogs. I agree with much of what he says. I would Read More...
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Monday, April 09, 2007 9:58 PM
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Over in Salon, Gary Kamiya has a sobering look at the role of the media in the runup to the war in Iraq. Whatever politics people have, I think it's fair to state that the public was not well served by the way the media covered (or didn't cover) the events Read More...
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Monday, April 09, 2007 6:11 AM
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Mike Arrington is right to be concerned about O’Reilly’s Code of Conduct. You can read the original post here , and a NYT article here . Having a debate about how to reduce anonymous comment hate is good. Using reason to try and elevate the overall civility Read More...
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Sunday, April 08, 2007 9:23 PM
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Six weeks to Beat the Bridge . With the race day in sight, it's time to turn up the speed. When I moved to Seattle, my brother and I decided to run the race together for the first time in more than a decade, and to run it as fast as we did about 12 years Read More...
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Sunday, April 08, 2007 9:08 PM
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Rob Walker's "Consumed" Column in the Sunday NYT is worth a read today, if only for the this08/magazine/08wwlnconsumed.t.html?_r=1&ref=magazine&oref=slogin' mce_href='http://www.murketing.com/journal/?p=475">this08/magazine/08wwlnconsumed.t.html?_r=1&ref=magazine&oref=slogin'>examination Read More...
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Thursday, April 05, 2007 10:03 PM
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Given some of the drama from the Wired story last week, and the cries for more transparency all around, I found this Michael Gartenberg post to be more than just a bit ironic. Here it is: Had another funny call with a media outlet this morning. When I Read More...
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Thursday, April 05, 2007 6:22 AM
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Via GigaOM, a good view of the challenges of marketing in Second Life. It's worth reading, because it strikes a balance between what's not working and what could. I've been pretty down on SL as a marketing medium and haven't changed my mind -- but give Read More...
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Thursday, April 05, 2007 6:18 AM
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A few weeks ago, I wrote about the dangers of losing the impact of an idea based on the current example in front of us. Today, I noticed that ComputerWorld completely validated my post, and provided a ton of new examples. Except they called their article Read More...
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Wednesday, April 04, 2007 7:16 AM
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My morning routine: get up, start coffee, pick up the three papers that are on my doorstep, turn on my tablet pc, scan RSS feeds, view favorite news sites, read email, pour cup of coffee, open newspapers. I'm always struck by the difference in the two Read More...
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Tuesday, April 03, 2007 9:47 PM
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Henry Blodget posts some stats purporting to show that YouTube is better than thought in terms of where they get their page views. It's for sure a contrarian view. In the comments, someone links to Media 3.0 (note, hate the name), which I find much more Read More...
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Tuesday, April 03, 2007 9:13 AM
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In the current issue of the New Yorker, Jane Kramer has an outstanding article about Pope Benedict. It's a good example of why long form journalism, IMHO, will continue to play a substantial role in how people receive information. In some ways, this article Read More...
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Sunday, April 01, 2007 8:45 PM
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This one takes the cake in terms of totally demonstrating the changing nature of communications and influence. Think about it. An authoritive news outlet, sprung out of nowhere just a few years ago to huge prominence -- that's Engadget. The Fake Steve Read More...
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