It’s Hard to Buy Home Electronics

December 23, 2004

A piece in the NYT describes the difficulty many people have understanding the specs that marketers use to sell consumer technology today.  Interesting to see the connection with stereo marketing in the 80’s, which was so overburdened with dense, seemingly vital, actually often useless, technical jargon. I think there are two fundamental truths of marketing […]

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E-mail Doesn’t Take a Holiday

December 23, 2004

NYT has the annual before-xmas piece about the difficulty some folks have dealing with email during holidays.

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Bill Moyers is Retiring

December 20, 2004

One of the last effective voices of American Liberalism and of a more decent, gentle America, now 70, is retiring.  The last show is in the can, and he is off, he says, to finish his biography of President Johnson (whose special assistant and press secretary he was). This feels like the end of an […]

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Hotel Rwanda

December 20, 2004

Philip Gourevitch’s We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families: Stories from Rwanda and Romeo Dallaire’s Shake Hands With the Devil: the Failure of Humanity in Rwanda both left me deeply shaken – both require of the reader an intimacy with the author’s agony, and both require that one […]

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Colour Commentary on US SC Arguments

December 20, 2004

This is brilliant – the Legal Information Institute at Cornell Law School will provide analysis of high profile US Supreme Court cases – all provided by law school students.  This via beSpacific.

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US Telemarketers Required to Scrub Their DNC Lists Monthly

December 20, 2004

In 2005 the US FTC will require telemarketers to purge newly-registered do-not-call numbers on a monthly basis (the current requirement is quarterly). Things to keep in mind as we head towards a made in Canada solution.

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A Lost Source Code Nightmare

December 20, 2004

David Canton tells the tale of a UK business that had its source code wiped out by the combined effects of a virus and a break-in, only to find that it was not protected by its business interruption insurance.

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Starting Your Own Law Practice

December 20, 2004

Carolyn Elefant at myshingle.com has a nice piece on the challenge of starting your own law practice.

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Collaboration Technologies According to Ray Ozzie

December 19, 2004

An interesting post in News.com to commemorate a Lotus Notes anniversary and to muse about the possibilities of collaborative work in a connected world.

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Suprnova is Down (and Out?)

December 19, 2004

Lots of rumours swirling around, but no answers yet.

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Skype 1.1 Beta is Out

December 19, 2004

Learn more here.

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NYT Magazine on the Privacy of Bloggees

December 19, 2004

NYT writes about blogs today – the angle is the invasion of our privacy as our nearest and dearest become bloggers and reveal the innermost about their lives, and our parts in them.

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