Did CTV Copy Blogger Steve Janke’s Reporting on the Defective Chinese Tires Story?

June 29, 2007

This is interesting – according to Steve, CTV may have taken his reporting on the defective Chinese tires story without attribution. I haven’t seen a response from CTV yet.

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A bubble or a bargain?

June 29, 2007

Fred has a killer post up on the economics and finance of Facebooks apps, riffing off of Valleywag’s hype-busting post. But Fred’s post really moves the ball forward. My experience on Facebook apps? Near the top of the messages I see when I visit Facebook are the numbers of my friends who’ve uninstalled apps. I […]

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Sorry, this video cannot be played on a Macintosh

June 29, 2007

The Globe’s online video offerings are expanding – this is a Very Good Thing, and wil accelerate as technology continues to break down the reasons for silo’d media formats. Other examples of this are legion, of course, but SlateV, Slate’s push into video, has been front of mind for me, partly because I love their […]

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On Reinventing HOTorNOT

June 28, 2007

HOTorNOT co-founder James Hong’s post on the reinvention of HOTorNOT is just about the smartest post I’ve read in a while, and ranks up there with Marc Andreessen’s writing for great recent additions to business writing about startups and the Web. Update: Markus Frind of PlentyofFish, a competitor, responds.

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Freshbooks is a Platform Now

June 28, 2007

Congrats to my friend and mesh partner Mike and the rest of the Freshbooks crew, who in addition to releasing their API 2.0 are rapidly becoming media 2.0 darlings as well.

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Podcasting Legal Guide for Canada

June 28, 2007

Michael blogs the release by Creative Commons Canada, led by Andy-Kaplan Myrth and Kathleen Simmons, of the Podcasting Legal Guide for Canada. I’ve taken only a quick look, but it looks exceptional.

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“Apple should pull the plug on the iPhone”

June 26, 2007

It is awfully funny, on this the first day the iPhone PR deluge begins in earnest, led off by great reviews today from Mossberg and Pogue, to see John Dvorak yesterday irately smacking down the PR, only a few weeks after he urged Apple to pull the plug, and tried to flog the story that […]

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“What a nightmare”

June 26, 2007

Fascinating – the exceptionally readable Derek DeCloet does everything today but directly accuse Michael Sabia of interfering with BCE’s increasingly strange “auction”.

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Throw Your Lawyer From the Train

June 26, 2007

Lately I’ve heard a succession of stories from startups about bad lawyering. Not ‘bad’ in a “bad, dog – bad!” sense, but bad in a very real sense – unresponsiveness, overcharging and the whole range of stupid human tricks played by negligent, dishonest or incompetent service providers. And this morning I noticed that Marc Andreessen […]

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The Worst of The Seven Deadly Sins

June 25, 2007

A great line, attributed to Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger, and quoted on BusinessPundit.

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Sitting on the dock of the bay

June 24, 2007

Rumour has it wireless reaches the dock, but I doubt I’m going to test it very often. So, posting will be lighter than usual for a few days. (For some of you, that no doubt will come as a relief.)

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Do We Need an Advertorial Badge of Conduct?

June 24, 2007

Of course we don’t. But it does strike me as odd that many of the same characters in the ‘tropolis who criticized – and openly mocked – Tim O’Reilly’s suggestion of a blogging code of conduct – are now criticizing Mike and Om and Paul and Fred (Abbey Blog?), as well as FM, with such […]

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