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 Wednesday, August 4, 2004
started 8/4/2004; 3:10:23 PM - last post 8/4/2004; 3:10:23 PM
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Doc Searls - Wednesday, August 4, 2004 
8/4/2004; 7:10:23 PM (reads: 8140, responses: 0)
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Business Week? Put 'em on hold and wait for the light to go out. 
| | PUBLICITY STUNT? Having stirred up the takeover tempest, Sun now has suddenly dropped the issue. A corporate spokeswoman referred the matter on Aug. 3 to Citigate, an outside public-relations firm. Citigate spokesman Noel Hartzell said Schwartz wasn't "available." And he cautioned that Sun "does not comment on rumors or speculation." |
| | Meanwhile, there isn't a blogger who knows Schwartz who doesn't believe that Schwartz wouldn't respond to an email. Which means we may have a first: a big-time magazine being blown off by a company whose head honcho would rather take his case to the blogosphere. |
| | Or maybe it's just one more proof that there's no way a PR department or agency can "handle" a free-range CXO, or even an ordinary rank & file employee. And that the best information isn't going to come through Official Channels. And that when it does, there's often not a damn thing Official Channels can do about it, other than babbling default boilerplate that carries all the meaning of an error message. |
From one Steve to another
| | Steve Gillmor: An ode to iPod. And a perspective that only SteveG can provide: |
| | The iPod platform shares important characteristics with the RSS platform. In effect, the device is an aggregation hub for time-critical information. As RSS aggregators begin to prioritize information according to the user's subscription patterns (attention.xml), the resulting caching of relevant data improves. Applying this triage to audio streams will improve the iPod's value proposition accordingly. My RSS aggregator, whether in the service cloud or cached intelligently between server and client, can prioritize iPod downloads based on event triggers aggregated from my RSS feed watch lists. |
Logburning?
Blogback
| | It could also certainly be construed as self-serving for Searls to bring it up in the context of political commentary on Iraq as well, would he have brought it up otherwise? |
| | By the way, The Robinson House is concerned with "Practical Technology for Practical People." If Practical.it had been an available domain (and if anyone can help us with that, we're still interested), that would also have been the name of IT Garage. |
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