The Ploy of Reviewing Iraq Strategy

October 21, 2006

The obvious question, with the “leak” a couple of weeks ago of news that the Iraq Survey Group may recommend changes to the U.S. approach, and the “news” this week that Bush is planning a sit down with Rumsfeld, Casey and Abizaid to discuss changing the U.S. military strategy in Iraq, is whether Americans are […]

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On Shilling for the MPAA

October 21, 2006

Cory posts on the Boy Scouts merit patch for respecting copyright. Which, as I read it, was headlined by a (presumably Federated Media placed) banner ad for CNBC’s “Conversations with Michael Eisner”. It’s not even 9 am and I’ve had my irony for the day.

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PR and the Information Insurgency

October 20, 2006

I hope readers will take the reference to insurgency here in context – I use the analogy because it strikes me that the changing nature of media, information and PR in the age of blogging is similar in some respects to the struggle between control and subversion that one sees in an insurgency. And the […]

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Options and the Steve Jobs Reality Distortion Field

October 19, 2006

Apple’s latest financials are spectacular; no particular surprise there – sales of iPods are healthy and sales of the new Intel Macs have been on fire. Despite increasing accounts of problems with many MacBooks and MacBook Pros (including a possible class action), the financials suggest that switching is picking up – as anecdotal evidence has […]

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Two From the Designers

October 17, 2006

Two interesting stories today from product design and engineering: Sun’s launch of its new container-sized data centers, and another piece on how Apple developed the original iPod.

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The (Slow) Death of Radio, Redux

October 16, 2006

More stats from the NYT on radio’s irrelevantization (?). Two culprits: attention for earshare (but we knew that already), and radio’s failure to pursue the young – is this the inevitable result of much of radio’s decision in the last 20 years to focus its attention on talk radio and the ‘middle-class middle-aged angry-white-male’ demographic? […]

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RIM’s Gamble on the Pearl; Rogers’ Gamble on GSM

October 16, 2006

I’ve been reading lately that the Pearl, RIM’s latest wonder, was a two year labour of love for the company; it’s first serious deviation from the all-enterprise all-the-time philosophy that has served it so well. And so, naturally, there’s been much speculation about whether it will take. The answer? It was only the fifth Rogers […]

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Fly Porter

October 14, 2006

When I first heard of Porter Airlines’ choice of a raccoon as mascot – the explanation at the time was that the plucky animal was a perfect choice for a plucky company – I first thought of the garbage can invading critters as an unintended reminder of Air Canada’s dumpster diving in the Westjet case. […]

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Now We Know Where Blog Traffic is Coming From

October 14, 2006

It seems clear that attention is gradually moving online from offline pursuits such as TV watching, but I’ve wondered for a while whether the explosive growth in blogs and the attention they attract is also draining traffic from other locations on the web. Mike Arrington posts today on what must be disheartening news for the […]

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A New Battle in the War on Spam

October 12, 2006

I’ve been seeing a lot more spam sneaking through my email filters lately. And based on Tyler’s recent piece (I’m having the same experience) and Peter’s post today, I’m not alone. What gives? I want more Spamhaus, not less.

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Yet Another Impressive Development at Techdirt

October 12, 2006

Rick Klau summarizes the new Techdirt Insight Community offering. Techdirt continues to provide very interesting content. Very impressive.

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Fluffing Facebook

October 12, 2006

Is it just me, or does the latest WSJ piece on Yahoo-Facebook negotiations sound like it was dictated by Facebook in an effort to whip Yahoo up about the deal? A nice ‘leak’, if you can get it. My favourite bit of analysis dictation: The two companies have had discussions since, with Yahoo’s valuation for […]

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