September 2006 - Posts
Greesnpan's SOX analysis is winning among my commenters.
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Just a few weeks ago I was trying to distinguish the frothiness in the web 2.0 space from the fin de siecle financial bubble that taught us so many important and painful lessons (and that we all secretly miss to some degree).
Now comes news that a
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Remember life without broadband?
Yeah, me neither.
But there is a big digital divide in the US, and it's getting wider -- the gap between rural areas and everywhere else.
This NYT article describes some of the problems facing places that can't get
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Who are you going to believe about Sarbanes-Oxley, Alan Greenspan or me?
OK, what if I got some experts to back me up? C'mon, give me a chance.
Last night, the former Fed chief told an audience in Boston that SOX should go: "Sarbox requires the
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Washington Post: In Ohio, a Battle of Databases
There is no sexier topic in politics these days than "microtargeting." That's the new science (some say dark art) by which candidates use the latest data-mining technology to vacuum every last scrap of
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Lots of folks are really impressed with the new ad format at Techmeme; Doc Searls, somwhat less so.
That it uses RSS is cool and modern and all; but hey, it's still advertising. It's still a media game that works entirely on the supply side. And it's
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WSJ: When it comes to generating goodwill between a company, its customers and prospects -- the very essence of public relations -- it's a buyer's market for small businesses. In the case of Hollywould and many others, the Internet more than anything
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The Future of the Internet II, a report from the Pew Internet & American Life Project.
Related, Imagining the Internet.
Some discussion here by Lex Alexander.
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Alarming headline of the day, from the Washington Post: 1,100 Laptops Missing From Commerce Dept.Well, maybe the details of the story are less distressing...
Nope.
"More than 1,100 laptop computers have vanished from the Department of
Commerce
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Wow.
I know, I'm a professional journalist, I ought to be able to come up with something a little more expressive than "wow."
But this H-P story just gets weirder and weirder, and this morning's WaPo piece made me say it out loud: wow.
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Baltimore Sun on the Maryland voting fiasco: "Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. wants to scrap the electronic voter check-in
system that crashed repeatedly during its debut in last week's primary
and is considering whether to summon the General Assembly to
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Electronic voting hack. Yikes.
Previously.
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NewAssignment.Net announces a $100,000 grant from Reuters.
The Knight Foundation ponies up big bucks for "community journalism" projects.
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Jeff Jarvis says, Yahoo is the last old-media company. It is dependent on the same
dynamics — good and bad — as other media companies: the high value but
difficulties of direct sales to agencies; the cost of acquiring users;
the vulnerability to larger
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From a review in Slate by Seth Stevenson of the book What Sticks: Why Most Advertising Fails and How to Guarantee Yours Succeeds, by Rex Briggs and Greg Stuart:
Based on their research, Briggs and Stuart argue that an advertising message heard three
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A news article about a laser-capable chips...
...and an earlier blog post by Intel CTO Justin Rattner, who says "I firmly believe that we are sitting on a plateau just waiting for the next order-of-magnitude leap in computer (and communication)
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Mark Phillips has been thinking about Wikipedia, Britannica, and related subjects.
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Steve Rubel points at a couple of interesting studies of blog readership.
One, discussed by Forrester's Charlene Li, shows young readers turn to blogs much more often than older ones; the other, conducted by KnowledgeStorm and Universal McCann, shows
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News that Segway has recalled all of the not-that-many Personal Transporters it's sold due to a potentially dangerous software glitch called to mind this very serious article about deadly software problems...and made me think much less seriously about
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More e-voting fallout: "Diebold Brushes Off Yet Another Damning Security Report."
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Lots of problems reported with electronic voting machines yesterday...
You aren't really surprised, are you?
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Kids today. Sometimes they aren't what they seem to be...
Take lonelygirl15, the YouTube phenomenon who captivated viewers with her ruminations on life as a smart teen, but turns out to have been an actress playing the part.
So many possible lessons
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Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales and Britannica's Dale Hoiberg square off in a WSJ debate.
A sharp early shot from Wales: "Artificially excluding good people from the process is not the best way to gather accurate knowledge."
Later, Hoiberg: "Our model works
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Rich Karlgaard says legendary Silicon Valley attorney Larry Sonsini is the "bad guy" in the HP board disaster: "When your $2,000 an hour lawyer says 'pretext calls'are ' common investigatory method' and 'within legal limits' -- you have a big problem.
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William B. Ziff Jr, 1930-2006.
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NYT's David Carr
on a "broader lesson...a cautionary tale about the
mainstream media’s engagement with the Web," derived from a recent
embarassing moment at The New Republic:
"Blogs, which may look like
one more way to publish, are first and foremost
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I spoke recently with Robert Scoble, the Man Who Made Enterprise Blogging Cool. The former Microsoft blogger is now creating online multimedia content at Silicon Valley startup PodTech and of course still banging away at his Scobleizer blog.Actually,
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John Robinson, editor of the Greensboro News & Record, responds
to another one of those grossly overgeneralized articles about blogging
vs journalism: "We should know by now that broadbrush swipes at the
blosophere are as
legitimate (and helpful)
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Nobody reads Valleywag for its financial acumen, but shouldn't even a snarky gossip site be careful about throwing around a word like "insolvent," which has an actual meaning, and which does not apply to Sun?
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Still trying for that elusive press pass to the New New Internet conference. They just emailed to say they have handed out their last press pass, but they are looking for more...and in the meantime, I can get in for the low, low, discounted price of $295...So
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Nick Carr says Google's new archive search
is "Arguably the single greatest research tool yet to appear on the
web... an important step forward in building a sense of history into
the Internet."
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Scoble reacts
of the news that HP chairwoman Patricia Dunn snooped on the private
phone records of her directors: "If Patricia Dunn is ever hired to a
company I’m working for I’m instantly quitting. She should be fired. Instantly. Without cause. Without
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Bloggers are having fun with the bubblicious tone of The New New Internet conference, a high-dollar affair to be held 9/20 in suburban DC. It does sound a bit goofy. I might go anyway.
Update and clarification, from the comments: The content doesn't
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JP Rangaswami: "Things I have been able to do Because Of my blog, rather than With my blog."
Kicker: "The point of this post is that none of the items on the list above were expected outcomes when I started blogging. They were serendipitous by-products,
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Am I missing something, or is there a bubble emerging in Bubble 2.0 futures?
Yes, there is a lot of hype around Web 2.0, and smart people are calling for calm and wondering where the money will be invested and the money will be made...But when we write
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