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Saturday, February 19, 2005
Sound familiar? 
| | "I love radio, but I hate what's happened to it," Spector said recently in his Brooklyn home. "Radio became a juke box, the idea being to play a lot of music and not say anything. The Good Guys had fun on the radio. We never took ourselves seriously." |
| | Something else: They knew their music, took chances on new artists, hosted live performances, laughed at their own mistakes. And they were involved in the culture. You never sensed a distance with WMCA. Nothing big or corporate. It was small, family-owned, and as much a local institution as Nathan's hot dogs. I still miss it. |
A buying preposition
| | By adding About's 22 million monthly users to the Times Company's 13 million monthly users - from The New York Times, The Boston Globe and more than 40 other Web sites - the company said it would have the 12th-largest presence on the Internet. |
| | "This scale is important as content companies compete for market share in readership and advertising," said Martin A. Nisenholtz, named by the Times Company yesterday as senior vice president for digital operations. |
| | Good read if you want to know where advertising fashion is going in the BigPub biz. |
wtg?
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| | I've come not to expect fallibility from Google. Reading that message was like looking at the sky and seeing an announcement that the Sun had experienced "a temporary error". |
| | Second thought: Are we sure they're not running on Windows? |
Canon fodder
| | I had to reboot my Linux ThinkPad (much improved since Linux World Expo) in Windows and fire up IE (a browser I hate) to go there; but in every other respect, the eComXpo has been a very interesting experience in virtual trade show attendance. The site does a remarkable job of emulating, and improving upon, your basic trade show experience. |
| | In addition to answering almost-live questions about my own talk ("The Blogging of Business vs. The Business of Blogging"), I 've been attending a talk on The New Realities of Online Life, by Lee Raine, founding director of the Pew Internet & American Life Project. In addition to providing the abundance of stats you'd expect from a project that specializes in surveying large populations, on Slide 13 Lee quotes the Cluetrain Manifesto, and goes on to talk about the conversational nature of the Web, and especially of blogging. Nice. |
| | Now he's saying that 5% of all Internet users are getting RSS feeds, and that "podcasts are catching on" and "We're beginning to look at" them. This from a guy who studies What's Happening in A Big Way. Impressive. The presentation is also reposted here. I'll get mine up later, somewhere. |
There are responses to this message:Docworld Mapping Project, Bernie Goldbach, 5/3/05; 10:11:17 PM Re: Saturday, February 19, 2005, Doug Landauer, 2/21/05; 9:29:21 PM Re: Saturday, February 19, 2005, Trygve Isaacson, 2/21/05; 3:23:08 PM Re: Saturday, February 19, 2005, Dave Winer, 2/21/05; 1:48:22 PM
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