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links for 2007-11-16
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links for 2007-11-15
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Yes!Weekly’s article on Jay Ovittore’s run for Congress.
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Discussion of NY Times comment policy plus suggestions for moderating comments.
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Why The Farm Bill is important…aka…Beer prices are going up!
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Mark Cuban’s keynote address at Blogworld.
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McSweeney’s is about as interesting as anything I’ve come across in a while. Kind of like Monty Python; you get it or you don’t.
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Email is the natural social network platform for business users? Food for thought.
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Free online video player that works with almost all formats.
links for 2007-11-13
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Taxes disguised as tickets.
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400 uses of vinegar.
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How to make a t-shirt cannon.
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Overview of custom publishing contracts
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Considerations for traditional magazine publishers interested in starting custom publishing division
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Considerations for custom publishers responding to RFPs
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Stultus est sicut stultus facit
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Tool you need if you’re going to donate that old computer.
links for 2007-11-12
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Pharma CI news service. Free and paid.
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Who knew that Iraq’s government issued $3 billion in bonds in 2006? Who knew that they’d tanked, especially since the surge started? Wisdom of the crowds and all that.
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Government contracting gone bad…again.
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Watchoverya-money is getting hit by the mortgage crap too.
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Traction Software upgrade announcement.
links for 2007-11-09
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Creative Commons for dummies by Cory Doctorow
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Interesting item on the correlation between the rise of coal use and the incidence of TB.
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Profile in BusinessWeek with this sub-head: “His wireless-phone manifesto was the inspiration for Google’s new mobile-software strategy, which includes the Open Handset Alliance”
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Burke and Dale City VA are numbers 1 and 3 respectively on this list. NoVa traffic sucks.
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Gladwell digs into the FBI profilers in New Yorker mag.
links for 2007-11-08
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Cool reusable placeholders for books.
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Size of competitive intelligence budgets in pharma.
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Article about CI in law firms.
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Preemptive strike by magazine publishers to get ad dollars by co-opting bloggers who cover similar territory. Could be a win-win depending on revenue share.
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NPR’s new music site is much loved by at least a couple of folks. I need to check it out.
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The real NPR music site.
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Gannett, Tribune, Hearst, Media News Group and Cox Newspapers in early discussions on combining their online ad sales. One stop shopping for agencies and other buyers.
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Cool nightlight. Moon that goes through all phases
Lewisville-based Poet Terri Kirby Erickson
Today I received an email from Lewisville-based Terri Kirby Erickson inviting me to read one of her poems, Queen Anne’s Lace, which was published in the Christian Science Monitor. I’m no connoisseur of poetry but I liked it, and it befuddled me just as most poetry that doesn’t begin with "Roses are red" tends to do. She has a collection titled Thread Count available at Amazon.com among other places.
links for 2007-11-06
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Do not track list info.
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FTC is not dropping numbers from Do Not Call registry? Sounds like that’s the case IF congress makes the registry permanent.
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Article about the liquidity crunch. I’m taking that on face value since I don’t really know what half of the acronyms mean. ABCP and related SIV sectors? Sounds like the clap to me.
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CDOs explained.
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ABS explained.
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This card game would drive the accountants in my family nuts. Here’s the description:
There are two types of cards: nouns (red) and adjectives (green). Each player is given a small stack of nouns. The game begins when one player (the judge) draws an adj -
Using Google adwords as a focus group.
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Good explanation of tagging and folksonomy.
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Interesting business innovation site. Looking at BIF-3 for ideas.
links for 2007-11-05
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RocketInfo’s reseller program
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Creating a “Spy Phone” set up with standard cell phones
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Counter intelligence in corporations.
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DIY heaven. Modular hardware so people can “hack” the machines in addition to software.
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Crowd sourcing an Israeli soccer team’s strategy. Fans monitor the game online and suggest starting line-ups, tactics and the like.
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Google’s reply to facebook.
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Article about ProQuo, which is a kind of “do not mail” opt-out registry for direct mail similar to the “do not call” list geared to telemarketing.
links for 2007-11-03
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NY Times article about beach erosion from OBX to Charleston. Isle of Palms mentioned.
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Guy “pitches” movie about extreme BMX missionaries doing their thing in Sin City.
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Best gag I’ve seen in a while. Mirror that doesn’t show reflection freaks some people out when they can see the reflection of an actress in on the gag but not their own.
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The birth of one of the blogging world’s preeminent entrepreneurs as told by his father.
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