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Friday, September 30, 2005
Why Did NYTimes Cut Jobs
Speech writer Jane Genova examines causes for the recent shrinkage at the paper of record. That is what the Times calls itself, yes? I dunno. I never even bother to click NYT links anymore. I know I can't get to them if it's been more than a few days, and it hardly seems worth the effort. It's just not that relevant anymore. But that's just me. Jane says there are other reasons:
Jane has some interesting work on her blog. Check out her perspective on whether or not CEOs should blog (says it's irrelevant) and why narcissism is being weeded out of the blogosphere (a very good thing.)After Black Tuesday Comes Wednesday
Civilized society had to quake on Tuesday when THE NEW YORK TIMES announced it was cutting 500 jobs.
Terry Frazier at 4:25 PM
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Bumvertising - Helping Poor Through Exploitation
Seattle entrepreneur Ben Rogovy hires vagrant sign holders to advertise his online poker company. Homeless advocates are appalled (well, whaddaya expect?) but Rogovy is nonplussed by their claims he's a poverty pimp. [link via Tiffany B. Brown]Bumvertising - a concept that beggars belief
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Now several times a week he steps into his Mercedes, and goes hunting, as he puts it, for "good, consistent beggars". Then he makes an offer - a bit of food and water, plus $1 to $5, according to each beggar's relative value, based largely on traffic patterns.
What is Web 2.0?
The web is a big idea and, for me, Web 2.0 (or 3.0 or 4.0) means weve made a significant step forward in usability and usefulness. Not necessarily new or different (because the web, as conceived, was a really good big idea,) but were doing much of it better and its getting easier to do what we want. [More...]
Wednesday, September 28, 2005
Stealing Content for Link Spam
I ran across this link-spam page today where someone, probably using an automated script, grabbed the entire content of my post on the public education boondoggle in Cobb County and pasted it onto the bottom on a page full of affiliate links. At least the scurilous pig didn't copy the page - formatting and all - so it's obvious this is nothing but link spam. Nothing to be done about this sort of thing, I suppose, but it still ticks me off. Larger images here and here.
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Personal Knowledge Management With delicious
delicious is a great Web 2.0 service that solves several previously intractable problems with bookmarks and offers a tool for sharing resources among groups with common understanding. David Buchan shares important lessons he's gathered from delicious in just a few short weeks. [More...] Terry Frazier at 4:59 PM
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Web 2.0 Writing Tools
Today I play around with two local wiki variants - Instiki and TiddlyWiki - trying to find a better route to write-once/publish-many nirvana. [More...] Terry Frazier at 12:00 AM
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Tuesday, September 27, 2005
Great Collection of Windows Software on Auction
There’s a great collection of Windows software up for charity auction at eBay. Proceeds go to a worthy cause – the PMC. More details here.
2nd PMC Software Auction is Live: Windows Software Bundle
Five days ago I set up the first auction of PMC Software. All Mac.
Tonight I've set up the first of five auctions of Windows software. There are fewer apps on this disc than are on the Mac disc, but the retail value is almost the same: about $1100!
There's an FTP client and a server, time tracking for projects, spam blocking, web publishing (a high quality editor), an RSS aggregator, three games, a web-based calendar service, and plenty more. Please check it out, and pass on the link through your own site or to anyone you think might be interested!
You'll probably note that I've only listed this one with 90% being donated to the PMC. That's because 95% isn't leaving me enough to cover eBay's fees. If there's anything left after the 90% + the fees, I'll pass it along in a separate donation.
The next Mac CD (or CD's) will go up in a couple of days.
Skype - Disruptive, Not Compelling
Skype appeals to early adopters, offering features and functions that most of us don't know we need. But for now, the service levels are too low, the surprises too frequent. I'm bowing out to wait and see. [More...]
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