Month: January 1970
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What podcasts are you listening to?
Just wondering what podcasts folks are listening to. Aaron? Rich? anyone?
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Music Industry Gets hit with the Long Tail
Today’s NYT carries an article that sites further evidence that the major music labels are getting creamed by indie music and net distribution and promotion methods. In a world of broadband connections, 60-gigabyte MP3 players and custom playlists, consumers have perhaps more power than ever to indulge their curiosities beyond the music that is presented…
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An early New Years Resolution for CivicActions
I resolve to use Skype more in the new year. This only works if you guys resolve to do it too. Why do I want us to use skype more often? Well if we are skype chatting about something and then need to talk to close the loop, we can easily move from IM to…
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And we’re back! (just in time for the holidays)
After about a week we are back. Our site is now upgraded, and we’ll be blogging again!
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Washington Post makes Congressional voting records available via RSS
Props to Scott Trudeau for IMing me
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Grumblings about the Do Not Call list and political solicitations
If I had a dollar for everytime a voter got angry with me for calling them about an election and said “I am reporting you, we are on the do not call list!” I would have a few bucks (probably more if I put in more time on the phones 😉 I saw this letter…
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Google and Privacy
This is a good op-ed from the NYT about Google and privacy. People love google and seem to ignore the fact that they are pretty bad on privacy, with tracking cookies, saved search history, merky privacy on google desktop serach and then the “never delete your mail” gmail pitch. I heard someone from EFF talk…
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Donating the Advertising revenue your eyeballs generate
I just saw this article on DailyCandy.com about GoodSearch.com/ GoodSearch is a search engine, now powered by yahoo that donated profits from advertising revenue to the charity of your choice. GoodSearch has a goal of donating 50% of revenues to charity, however in the fine print there is a caveat about a lower percentage in…
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A New Battelfield: Ownership of Ideas
Noel pointed me toward this article in the Internaltion Herald Tribune about intellectual property. I have pulled out just a few quotes below: “In certain cases,” said Elsa Lion, an analyst at the London research firm Ovum, “technology companies are beginning to realize they have more to gain by releasing patents to the general public…
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Sony / BMG shoot own foot with DRM
Just saw a snip on the Black Friday Morning News about the Sony / BMG DRM fiasco (apparently Sony wasn’t sure that installing spyware on their cusomters machines was a bad thing). Anyway, some “industry analyst” made a comment that I hadn’t thought of: “Sony just gave kids another reason not to buy CDs and…