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| Friday, March 24, 2006 |
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Loose links 
| | I'm doing more office moving today, gradually shifting my parked ass from home (which we've sold and will have to vacate by May) to CITS at UCSB. Meanwhile, what follows is a pile of stuff, in no particular order, that caught my attention this morning.... |
| | Jon Udell: When I realized that substituting sausage for content made no difference, something snapped. He continues, |
| | So now, when I hear publishers talk about driving traffic, I push back. People are not cattle, and publishers do not herd them. When writers, editors, and publishers manage to be interesting, informative, or entertaining -- in short, useful -- we attract readers. If we are consistently useful, a relationship bond may form. And if we are clever, we will figure out how the tangible expression of that bond -- the RSS subscription -- can mediate exchanges of money for value. But language determines thought, and our language of sausage and traffic prevents us from focusing on what we actually do, why it matters, and how to reinvent ourselves in a networked world. Bonus link, via Jackie Danicki. Also Brand Autopsy, on general principles. |
| | Revenue isn't the problem for television; audience is the problem. Local broadcasters and networks both would do well to accept that and move forward with strategies to find and engage the people who used to passively participate in our money tree. |
| | If you¹ve never been in the military, you may not appreciate the level of professionalism and training represented in both the officer and enlisted ranks. Julian Barnes has a great piece in US News and World Report on how the Army is shifting it¹s training in response to things they¹re encountering in Iraq. This is important because we¹re more likely to see things that look like Iraq in the future than we are ³near-peer² kinds of encounters. |
| | Head Lemur: Music fans will have a rare opportunity to feed their jones, get some astonishing memorabilia, help kids, and fight cancer all at one time. |
| | Translation: Steven ships on time. Office dead, rolled up in Windows. Windows now "software-based services." More seamless blah blah now under Windows group. Windows group under Ozzie. Office Dead. Now back to our movie: The Man Who Came to Lunch, starring Mike Arrington. |
| | Dave Winer points to this item by Dave Richards and adds, ...if it's true, there's no way it's shipping in 2007. If true it's not just a setback, it's a multi-billion-dollar debacle... Betting line: not true. [Later, Dave added this.] |
| | The goal seems to be to affect a kind of towering offhand arrogance while making the most vacuous possible pronouncements on absolute trivia. |
| | Every once in a while, ICANN pushes so far past the limits of acceptable decision-making processes that the only suitable response becomes satire. |
| | Riverbend: I don¹t think anyone imagined three years ago that things could be quite this bad today. |
| | Chris Allbritton: I can¹t see a way out of this briar patch without a whole lot more bloodshed. |
| | Ming: As it is right now, humankind is a schizophrenic moron. |
| | A thought, while remembering Vietnam: If we still had a draft in the U.S., we'd be out of Iraq by Christmas. |
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