Why I Love Techdirt

September 30, 2006

Even though I often think they don’t give enough credit to the rest of the internet, fixated as they often are on links to themselves, Techdirt has the market cornered on reality checks and the diligent puncturing of the worst of corporate bloviation and self-importance. The latest concerns yet another trademark case on google Adwords. […]

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Final Liberal Leadership Delegate Predictions

September 29, 2006

Any final predictions by DemocraticSPACE are noteworthy: “DemocraticSPACE is projecting that Michael Ignatieff will emerge from Liberal Party’s “Super Weekend” with the most delegates in his bid to replace Paul Martin as leader.” And the site is calling Gerard Kennedy fourth after Bob Rae and Stephane Dion – a remarkable achievement.

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Only a Moron Wouldn’t Listen to Mark Cuban

September 29, 2006

Much agitation in the ‘sphere today over everyone’s favourite topic for pointless debate, YouTube valuation. What is this, Web 2.0 whack-a-mole? We spend part of the week scoffing at the inanity of analysts tripping over each other to out-estimate each other on MySpace valuation, and before the weekend rolls in the topic has surfaced in […]

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The HP Saga: The Buck Stops Where?

September 29, 2006

The first reports of Patricia and Mark’s Excellent Adventures at the House Energy and Commerce Committee are now in and the overall impression is one of sonorous bloviation by the pol’s and no surprises from HP. Dunn didn’t supervise anything, told the Board about everything, assumed everything was aboveboard, had no idea what was going […]

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The Inane Posturing of Analysts

September 28, 2006

I think Paul Kedrosky is exactly right in his assessment of the latest round of foolishness over the potential value of MySpace, and I’ll cop to a distinct queasiness seeing Henry Blodget’s screed atop the topic on Techmeme – the uneasy sensation of a compulsive and sudden need to bathe did actually cross my mind […]

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The HP Saga: I Know Nothing – NOTHING!

September 28, 2006

The latest gyrations in the HP saga are beginning to remind me of Sergeant Schultz, the great Hogan’s Heroes character who would always profess his ignorance of prisoner shenanigans he would rather have ignored; no one in the HP saga now seems to really know anything about anything, though everyone seems to have been involved […]

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Conrad Black’s Citizenship

September 26, 2006

The Globe is reporting that Conrad Black, the great freedom fighter, is taking steps to regain his Canadian citizenship. The obvious question (conspicuously unanswered by the Globe piece, except for some hogwash over how Lord Black now pines for the more genteel ways of his former home), is why? Faintly tickling the distant reaches of […]

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Skype Not Welcome at College?

September 26, 2006

CBS marketwatch is running a piece on college bans of Skype, because of the effect of its p2p architecture on campus networks. eBay is no doubt immensely pleased that this had to happen after the acquisition.

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RBC Next Great Innovator Challenge

September 26, 2006

It isn’t often you see sincere attempts from the largest old economy businesses to explore true innovation. Often, the challenges of meeting new realities are pushed to the back burner – left to simmer while we struggle to merely keep up with the way things are now. This of course is one of the reasons […]

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The HP Saga: Focus on the Board

September 26, 2006

Yesterday brought the news of increased scrutiny of the HP board; former chair Patricia Dunn has of course asserted that she kept the board informed, but so far, at least after early interest in the battle between Dunn and Perkins, the company’s officers and senior employees have garnered the lion’s share of attention. No more, […]

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The HP Saga: Carly Goes on Tour; Dunn v. Everybody?

September 25, 2006

There is little new about the HP saga today; the papers are obviously continuing to dig but recent focus is on analysis pieces about the tough road CEO Mark Hurd has ahead of him and how much harder it may be for HP to substantiate its story and protect Hurd with ex-chair Patricia Dunn now […]

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Walmart Sends in the Goons

September 23, 2006

The New York Post reports that Walmart has been threatening the movie studios if they release product to iTunes: Worried about its massive DVD sales, retail behemoth Wal-Mart has told some of Hollywood’s biggest players it will retaliate against them for selling movies on Apple’s iTunes. Last year when Disney announced it would begin offering […]

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