Monthly Archives: November 2008

Becoming Screen Literate

Via the New York Times By KEVIN KELLY Published: November 21, 2008 Everywhere we look, we see screens. The other day I watched clips from a movie as I pumped gas into my car. The other night I saw a … Continue reading

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British Regulators Reject BBC Plan to Add Local Web Video News

Via the New York Times By ERIC PFANNER Published: November 21, 2008 British regulators rejected a plan on Friday to add locally focused video news to BBC Web sites in Britain, dealing a setback to the digital ambitions of the … Continue reading

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Now, Brevity Is the Soul of Office Interaction

Via the New York Times Article Tools Sponsored By By SARAH MILSTEIN Published: November 21, 2008 ONE hundred forty characters — the exact length of this sentence — is turning out to be just right for business communications of all … Continue reading

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Web content migration: disastrous strategy

Via Gerry McGovern There is probably no worse strategy for an intranet or public website than content migration. It is doomed to failure from the very start. Joe the manager picks up a jug. Inside that jug is milk that … Continue reading

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LinkedIn Launches Streamlined People Search

Via Tech Crunch by Jason Kincaid on November 24, 2008 LinkedIn has a launched a revamped version of its search engine that aims to streamline the business social network’s most oft-used features. Most of the new features revolve around people-search … Continue reading

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In Britain, Outwitting Strict Laws Against Libel

Via the New York Times By NOAM COHEN Published: November 23, 2008 A SMALL computer file appeared on the Internet last week, purporting to list the 13,000 members of the racist, far-right British National Party. The text file contained not … Continue reading

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For Laid-Off Journalists, Free Blog Accounts

Via the New York Times By JENNA WORTHAM Published: November 23, 2008 It’s a long way from $700 billion, but the media start-up Six Apart is introducing its own economic bailout plan. The TypePad Journalist Bailout Program offers recently terminated … Continue reading

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TechCrunch Feed Reader Breakdown – Outlook Rules Them All

Via Tech Crunch by Michael Arrington on November 20, 2008 Every once in a while we show some of the stats about the feed readers people are using to access TechCrunch content. Since we recently passed a million daily RSS … Continue reading

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Study: time kids spend online not wasted after all

Via ARS Technica By John Timmer | Published: November 20, 2008 – 08:55PM CT There have been a steady stream of worries about the dangers that Internet use could pose to children, and many have dismissed these worries as overblown … Continue reading

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Google Makes Major Interface Change To Search: SearchWiki

Via Tech Crunch by Michael Arrington on November 20, 2008 We’d noticed an increasing number of people emailing on a large-scale bucket test (a product change tested on just a percentage of total users) that Google has been conducting for … Continue reading

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