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Monthly Archives: April 2009
Power corrupts. Imaginary power corrupts obsoletely .
Don Marti in Do Not Feed the Troll: “The latest trend in the IT Media is trolling as business model. In the old days, trolling was a hobby. How many users of newsgroup or other forum could you draw into … Continue reading
Posted in Blogging, Business, Fun, Future, Ideas, Journalism
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New Innerface
Sorry I’ve been quiet. Let’s see… I’ve only blogged on 12 days this month. A new low for me, I’m sure. There are several reasons, all good. The new one, though, is that I’m hunkering down on a book. For … Continue reading
Posted in Berkman, Blogging
Tagged adhd, Berkman, Berkman Center, Blogging, harvard, html, opml, outining, quickpress, wordpress
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Moving past marketing
Says Stowe Boyd (in a post that has been re-tweeted a bit), We need to move past the Cluetrain Manifesto, and acknowledge that what people are doing on the web is much, much more than conversing. It’s not just a … Continue reading
Posted in Business, infrastructure, Past, problems, VRM
Tagged Amanda Chapel, Cluetrain, conversation, Markets are Conversations, Stowe Boyd
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In defense of Craigslist
Here’s a job for the Citizen Media’s long tail: find the fist time anybody used the terms “Craigslist killer”, “Craigslist case” or “Craigslist murder”. What the effort will highlight are two issues for journalism. One is the absence of an … Continue reading
Posted in Blogging, Journalism, Life, News
Tagged brand, branding, Craig Newmark, craigslist, crime, Google Blogsearch, murder, Phillip Markoff, Technorati
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Getting real about fixing health care
I’m listening right now to On Point*, where the topic is Pushing E-Health Records. The only case against electronic health records (EHR, aka electronic medical recordsk, or EMR) is risk of compromised privacy. Exposure goes up. The friction involved in … Continue reading
Posted in Future, Health, infrastructure, problems, Science, VRM
Tagged Big Pharma, crypto, ehr, emr, google, hcrm, Health Care Relationship Management, Kevin Kelly, kieretsu, kk, microsoft, point of integraion, point of origination, projectvrm, silo, Technium, VRM
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Flickr back up
First, a big thanks to all the folks at Yahoo who ran down and helped fix the problem behind the post below. Turns out I had two IDs, one for Yahoo and one for Flickr, and that the two were … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Photography, Places, problems, Travel
Tagged 2009_04_19, Channel Islands, Channel Islands National Park, flickr, lax-sfo, laxsfo, yahoo
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Looking for real help from Yahoo
On Wednesday I somehow signed out of my Yahoo account on Flickr. When I tried to sign back on, my login/password failed. So I went through Yahoo’s authentication process to recover those, and it sent them to me by email. … Continue reading
Evening Beer Notes
I’m bummed that I’m drinking a beer on the deck here in Santa Barbara while Dave is in Cambridge. Would have enjoyed having coffee with him this morning. So instead I’ll raise a glass in his general direction, and post … Continue reading
Posted in Blogging, Business, Ideas, infrastructure, Journalism, Life, Photography, problems, Travel
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