Reading List July 28, 2005

  • IceRocket’s Secret Weapon (The Post Money Value) — How saying "Thank You" is a powerful business tool.
  • Tracking is Good (A VC) — Value in targeted marketing, and how customer tracking helps.
  • Onfolio – The Buzz Process (The Post Money Value) — Blogs change the landscape for getting testimonials and paid placement.
  • Cheap Shot in a Good Cause (Moore’s Lore) — Why free trade should not be values free.
  • Becoming an Un-Person (Moore’s Lore) — The ID system in the US is broken and Dana’s experience with the local Social Security Administration office is a good example of why.
  • The Christian Paradox (Harper’s via Chewie) — On American Christians and their un-Christian behavior.
  • Wartime Dispatches (Greensboro News & Record) — Stories about soldiers in Iraq who are from Piedmont Triad area.
  • Economics of Used Books (Boing Boing) — Why Amazon.com isn’t stupid for selling used books next to new books.
  • Spin Sucks (Feld Thoughts) — “First we have to decide what the right thing to do is; then we’ll
    think about the politics.  Otherwise we’ll just confuse ourselves. — Richard Snelling”
  • Acceptable Downtime (Feld Thoughts) — Why 99.999% up time may not be enough for online service providers.  Better said would be the importance of redundancy.
  • Delta and the "Internal" Memo (The Post Money Value) — About the absurdity of the concept of an "internal" memo in a company with more than 10 employees.
  • No More AO-Hell (Jeff Jarvis) — Jeff dumps AOL after a 12 year relationship and in the process of describing the dump he gives a cool retrospective on the evolution of the internet.

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