The End of Objectivity

January 31, 2005

Dan Gillmor has a post on his new site, Dan Gillmor on Grassroots Journalism, Etc., titled “The End of Objectivity”– it’s the beginnings of an essay on the changing nature of journalism in the face of the growth of the ‘net.  A very provocative topic in this time of media concentration, a shift in the […]

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How the Media Business Views New Technologies

January 31, 2005

Via the NYT, a piece on the views of some executives attending Davos on the future role that technology and digital content play in their business models.

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IP Strategy and the Quest for Venture Capital

January 31, 2005

Via Bizz Bang Buzz, an article in Medical Devicelink by Steven Furlong of The Altera Law Group, an IP law firm in Minneapolis, on the relationship between IP strategy, early stage business models and the quest for venture capital.

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Classified Dutch Military Documents Inadvertently Shared via Kazaa?

January 30, 2005

Documents that The Register describes as “highly classified information about human traffickers from the Dutch Royal Marechaussee – a service of the Dutch armed forces that is responsible for guarding the Dutch borders” have shown up on Kazaa.  A working theory is that they were (inadvertently) shared because they were deposited into a Kazaa-shared directory. […]

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Evidence That Spam Volumes are Stabilizing

January 30, 2005

When I first heard AOL’s reports some weeks ago that spam volumes had dropped, I took it more as a sign that their userbase was eroding than good news about spam.  But it looks like my skepticism might have gotten the better of me. But there is news from Brightmail, MessageLabs and Postini that the […]

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Photos of USS San Francisco

January 30, 2005

I recently posted on the mapping technology error that was responsible for the San Francisco’s undersea accident.  (Tragically, the accident killed one sailor and injured 60 others).  Via BoingBoing, photos of the hull in drydock.

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Building Winning Technology Companies

January 30, 2005

Ed Sim posts on observations from a panel discussion about helping entrepreneurs to build winning technology companies.  Money quotes: 1. Release early and often – It is better to release an imperfect product, get feedback, and continue evolving than trying to release the perfect product because you may never get there and run out of […]

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Does Your Used Hard Drive Still Have Data On It?

January 29, 2005

Brad Feld has a post about what a friend found on used hard drives – stories like this surface regularly, but each one is still very disturbing.  Money quote: Not surprisingly, he found a huge amount of data, including confidential information such as medical records, HR correspondence, and financial data.  For example, Drive #134 was […]

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Large IT Project Failures Redux, Part Deux

January 29, 2005

Close on the heels of Simon Helm’s post on large UK IT project failures, Nicholas Carr’s recent NYT op-ed on the topic and the news that the FBI looks ready to abandon its IT overhaul project, AP is reporting on the issue with the spin that failure is more common than success in large government IT projects. […]

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Disclaimer

January 29, 2005

Just about every blawg I read has a disclaimer on it.  The pattern is almost always the same, and reduces to the following: I am not your lawyer just because you’re reading this blog You are not my client just because you’re reading this blog This blog is not legal advice Don’t rely on anything […]

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Car RFID Security System Cracked

January 29, 2005

As I close in on the final pages of Bruce Schneier’s Secrets and Lies, it’s interesting to see YASOAESC – yet another story (NYT) of an encryption system cracked.  This time, it’s a group of students from Johns Hopkins …. <sigh> these kids today.  Money quotes: Mr. Green, a graduate student at Johns Hopkins University, […]

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Yet Another Tale of Large IT Project Failure

January 29, 2005

Simon Helm has a post that tells another story of large IT project failures, this time in the UK.  Money quote: The thing is, not all of the government’s IT projects have worked out. Several ambitious IT projects have fallen apart after hundreds of millions of pounds have been funnelled into them. One of the […]

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