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July 2007 - Posts
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Tuesday, July 31, 2007 9:22 PM
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And no, I'm not talking about Dow Jones and News Corp., I'll save that for another day. I'm talking about Ben Worthen's WSJ blog on mashups, and the inadvertent juxtaposition with yesterday's journal special section on IT . Check these two lines out (bold Read More...
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Tuesday, July 31, 2007 8:52 PM
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Rocketboom star Amanda Congdon now doing infomercials for American Express. Well, who woulda thunk it? Well, me . And unless I'm reading the numbers wrong, even this here pedestrian communications blog clocks in better than 40k on the blogging scale... Read More...
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Tuesday, July 31, 2007 10:59 AM
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Around the virtual neck of Fake Steve Jobs. Unbeknownst to him, a group of PR people, bloggers, journalists and tech/business watchers has been collaborating and meeting online and off, comparing notes, referencing posts to real events and who was/was Read More...
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Tuesday, July 31, 2007 10:50 AM
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At least Chris Anderson had the courage to publicly disavow previous coverage about Second Life, in his publication and again in his blog. Hear hear. When BizWeek did the same thing, they just pretended they'd never written that crazy cover story in the Read More...
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Tuesday, July 31, 2007 8:52 AM
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Couple of really good articles in the New Yorker in the next to last issue, still catching up on my reading. The article on bonobos by Ian Parker was a great read from start to finish, and shows the value of doing actual reporting and traveling. It also Read More...
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Monday, July 30, 2007 10:15 AM
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Wow, Jack Shafer over at Slate put the hammer down on Michael Finkel, and by default the entire media universe, for turning what amounts to the same blind eye toward plagiarism that professional cyclists turn to doping. My issue of National Geo with the Read More...
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Sunday, July 29, 2007 9:43 PM
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That's my goal for the week ahead. Last week got away from me -- I had a few pretty significant work events, and to top it all off, well, the final Harry Potter book needed to be read. Two years ago, I blogged about reading the next to last book in the Read More...
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Sunday, July 22, 2007 8:01 PM
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In all aspects of our lives and around the world, we are seeing borders disappear, often with unpredictable and dramatic consequences and outcomes. Not just physical borders – though these are thinning too. Social, community, online/offline – all are Read More...
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Tuesday, July 17, 2007 7:17 AM
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Writing in today's Washington Post, Markus Prior opines about the state of the media and the news, topics which are pretty on point for this blog, as well. He has a pretty bleak view of the world -- that more access to information paradoxically makes Read More...
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Friday, July 13, 2007 3:07 PM
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Catching up on some of my reading after a few days of running around a bit, and belatedly saw this post from Jeremy over at the loose wire blog. In it, he perfectly captures a number of themes that are echoing around, and which in many ways were reinforced Read More...
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Friday, July 13, 2007 11:29 AM
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In his interview with David Kirkpatrick, he expressed a couple of interesting thoughts. First, he suggests that we'll see a shift from video streaming to video downloads, because it more reflects the way people will watch video, and it greatly decreases Read More...
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Friday, July 13, 2007 8:58 AM
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Super interesting panel going on at iMeme. Participants: Lauren Berkowitz, Senior Vice President, Digital EMI Music North America Robert Glaser, CEO, RealNetworks Jerry Harrison, Talking Head and Chairman, iLike Terry McBride, CEO, Nettwerk Music Group Read More...
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Thursday, July 12, 2007 11:00 PM
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At iMeme today, I walked into the lunch and saw Geordie Rose, Founder and Chief Technology Officer, D-Wave Systems, sitting at a table by himself. I quickly walked over and sat down, thus lowering the average IQ of the table and making myself twice as Read More...
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Thursday, July 12, 2007 4:51 PM
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This A1 article in the Journal today, looking at the way the Whole Foods CEO manufactured an online identity to post comments about competition was a great into to the session regarding identity here at iMeme. The panel was made up of: Kim Cameron, Architect Read More...
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Thursday, July 12, 2007 2:45 PM
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Came via Adam Lashinsky to Sheryl Sandberg of Google: Q: What is Google? A: I don't know. There was a bunch of preamble to the question, and a fair amount of post question talking, but I thought that was great. Here is what Google says to that question... Read More...
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Thursday, July 12, 2007 2:23 PM
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In a relatively brief interview with David Kirkpatrick at Fortune, Jon made a couple of interesting points. 1. Jon is pretty well known as a blogger -- he had a great answer to a question about being CEO and blogging. He said on a good day he reaches Read More...
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Thursday, July 12, 2007 9:44 AM
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First panel of the day is about platforms. I'm listening to Marc Benioff of Salesforce.com riff on what makes a platform. Google, Second Life, Facebook are also on the panel. Attendees are: Marc Benioff , CEO, salesforce.com Marissa Mayer , Vice President, Read More...
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Wednesday, July 11, 2007 10:02 PM
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I'm at the FORTUNE iMeme conference the next few days -- it's always interesting to get out and mix it up a bit. Looks like a pretty good agenda for the next two days, and there are a bunch of people I've blogged about who will be here -- so it will be Read More...
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Tuesday, July 10, 2007 6:50 AM
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Interesting if brief story about the way the presidential campaigns are using search engine marketing in the New York Times today. Their conclusion: Noah Elkin, vice president for corporate strategy at iCrossing, an Internet marketing firm that studied Read More...
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Tuesday, July 10, 2007 6:46 AM
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I was catching up on some blog reading this morning, and came across Anil Dash writing about bottled water. It's a summation of a pretty powerful piece in Fast Company, and really drives home two points, one germane to this blog, and the second less so. Read More...
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Sunday, July 08, 2007 8:36 PM
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Great story in the current edition of National Geographic Adventure magazine looking at how to survive (almost) anything . (Apologies in advance for their screwy pagination scheme). While this is really supposed to be a story about surviving in the wilderness Read More...
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Sunday, July 08, 2007 7:56 PM
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Terry Heaton has a great post out on what happened at Backfence, and what it means for the hyper local movement. Among the interesting points that he makes is the differentiation between hyper local and niche media. I've long been both a fan of the *idea* Read More...
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Monday, July 02, 2007 7:52 AM
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Even in an online world, my house remains filled with print publications and newspapers. One of the biggest challenges in having news pushed to you online (or seeking it out) is that it often tends to be news I want or opinion I want to agree with. Reading Read More...
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