Fire Your PR Firm

May 5, 2005

alarm:clock has a post on PR firms and startups. This accords with my experience in a startup. I saw no value added.

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First Commercial VoWiFi Service Launches

May 5, 2005

That was fast. Hot on the heels of my post yesterday about the accelerating buzz about Voice over WiFi, Rio Rancho, New Mexico has announced what appears to be the first commercial VoWiFi service: Carrier-class voice-over-Wi-Fi telephone service, the first of its kind in a U.S. metro deployment, is now available in Rio Rancho, N.M. […]

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Voice Over WiFi Buzz Accelerating

May 4, 2005

I’ve blogged often about the possibilities of VoWiFi. Andy Abramson blogs it today on the heels of the Interop 2005 conference.

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Musings on Self-Employment

May 4, 2005

Michal Sabren’s post on self-employment and his business is a terrific read – losts of great insights. Via Infectious Greed.

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Free Software Foundation Sued Over GPL

May 4, 2005

The U.S. Free Software Foundation is being sued over the General Public License for restraint of trade under the Clayton Antitrust Act: The pro se suit, filed by physicist, computer programmer and Groklaw gadfly Daniel Wallace, charges that the GPL “contract licensing scheme” artificially fixes software prices. Wallace is asking the court for an injunction […]

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Anonymous Blogging

May 3, 2005

From Global Voices, a superb technical accompaniment to the recent EFF post on How to Blog Safely (Anonymously). Via Copyfight.

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On Simplicity

May 3, 2005

Cliff Atkinson writes on the cognitive impact of distraction and processing overload. I blogged some related news (one on the same study) here, here and here. Listen to the man. Forget the shiny objects and flashing lights. It’s about focus. It really is very simple.

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Celphones Cut Hotel Bills

May 2, 2005

Jeff Nolan posts on celphone usage eating into hotel phone revenue. But I would have titled the post differently – something like “Hotel Overcharging for Phone Use Alienates Customer Base and as Soon as an Alternative Becomes Available Kills an Otherwise Reliable Source of Revenue”. A bit wordy, perhaps.

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Personal Information on 600,000 Time Warner Employees Lost

May 2, 2005

CNet is reporting what it calls possibly “one of the largest cases yet of identity theft” – a tape containing personal information on 600,000 current and former employees of Time Warner has been lost: Time Warner said the mishap occurred on March 22, when data storage company Iron Mountain was transporting its backup tapes to […]

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Post-Employment Employee Restrictions

May 2, 2005

Via Michael Fitzgibbon, an article by David Carr on drafting enforceable confidentiality, non-solicitation and non-competition agreements. It’s written from a U.S. perspective, but is a useful resource in the Canadian context as well.

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PR: Inside the Belly of the Beast

May 2, 2005

Paul Graham writes about the PR industry, its involvement in advertising, and how his company used PR to gain market visibility.

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Doonesbury on DRM

May 1, 2005

Via Boing Boing, today’s Doonesbury is on DRM.

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