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Blog Networking Really Works
I want to tell you a blog success story -- a story about how I were able to start a project for client that never would have happened without blogging.
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Date: 2005-06-30
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Face For Ad Space On Ebay
Over the years, a lot of items have shown up for sale on Ebay. You can go on Ebay and find rare books dating back hundreds of years. You can also find Beanie Babies dating back 2 years. At times, Ebay has had some very peculiar things for sale too. Right now, you can buy a voodoo hex to put on someone, a mystery mailing tube (whatever that is), and even autographed breast implants. Someone once tried to sell his soul on Ebay.
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Date: 2005-06-30
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Worldwide Raids on Illegal Filesharing
Law enforcement authorities from around the world raided illegal filesharing networks, making arrests and seizing computers. Today's assault led by the FBI hammered multiple locations in the Netherlands after a dozen raids yesterday.
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Date: 2005-06-30
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Blogs, Links, and SEO
Blogs and links are the perfect couple. Of course, everyone knows that. You don't have to be a hopeless romantic or some SEO techie type to figure that one out.
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Date: 2005-06-29
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Blogging From CFUnited
So I'm at the CFUnited ColdFusion conference in Washington D.C. I got in yesterday and hooked up with the boys from CFDynamics. It's always funny to finally meet people in person for the first time after working with them online for a number of years.
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Date: 2005-06-29
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Content Spam Remix
With all this talk about remixes, Jeremy's mulled it over and Wired did a nice piece on it this month as well... it's got me thinking. IMHO Remixing is media spam. Let me explain before you tell me to shut up.
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Date: 2005-06-29
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High Courts Says Grokster Needs New Market
The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) handed down a ruling some people seem to be missing at least in part. The court ruled in favor of MGM over Grokster Inc. and Streamcast Networks on basic concept and that concept is the way they packaged their P2P, file sharing product.
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Date: 2005-06-28
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AMD Tries To Break Intel “Chokehold”
AMD filed an antitrust suit to attempt to break the "chokehold" they assert Intel has on the processor market. They claim numerous anti-competitive moves Intel has made in the past up to an including threats to computer companies for electing to use AMD products in any form or fashion.
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Date: 2005-06-28
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Apple Brings Podcasts To iTunes
The recent explosion of the podcast has caught the attention of Apple Computers Inc. Apple plans to ride the podcast shockwave by providing access to podcasts though the latest version of iTunes.
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Date: 2005-06-28
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Is Microsoft All Talk On HD DVDs?
Though Microsoft says it's not taking sides in the impending DVD format war, the announcement that the software giant is joining up with Toshiba to develop high-definition DVD players using a special version of Windows seems contrary to that claim.
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Date: 2005-06-28
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Microsoft really embraces RSS
Lots of buzz in the blogosphere and in mainstream media about the news today that Microsoft will be building support for RSS into Longhorn, the next release of the Windows operating system due in late 2006, and not only in the next version of Internet Explorer.
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Date: 2005-06-27
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ProBlogger - Reflections on Guest Blogging
I thought I'd give a quick update - we've finished our tour of Turkey (amazing) and are back in London for a couple of days. I'm slowly leaving holiday mode as I have a couple of meetings lined up over the next day or two.
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Date: 2005-06-27
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Better writing through blogging
Blogging improves your writing skills...Better writing ability, and an enhanced ability to express yourself in print, is a rarely thought about benefit of blogging.
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Date: 2005-06-27
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The press comes in on Gnomedex announcements
Google News is reporting 243 news articles about Microsoft's RSS announcements on Friday, including the Associated Press, BBC, Reuters, and many newspapers around the world (a coworker reports reading about the announcements in an Indian newspaper over the weekend).
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Date: 2005-06-27
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High Court Keelhauls Grokster On P2P Piracy
The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) handed down a unanimous ruling in favor of MGM in MGM V Grokster Inc. (Case #04-480). The movie and recording industries surely rejoice as the decision makes P2P sharing networks liable for file swapping of copyrighted materials.
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Date: 2005-06-27
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Website To Make Congressional Reports Public
Ever wonder what information Congress knows but doesn't voluntary share with the public? A new website is aiming to mine the depths of Congressional reports to open the door to unclassified but difficult to find information.
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Date: 2005-06-27
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Microsoft Gets With RSS
At a conference in Seattle yesterday, Microsoft officials announced that Longhorn, its next operating system will come with RSS-friendly features making it easy for users to subscribe to them, and for developers to work with them.
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Date: 2005-06-25
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Success for Dutch Business Blog Meeting
One of the great things about presenting on new media communication channels to a group of people of which over 90% are active bloggers is that it certainly keeps you focused on the precise relevance of the points you're making and which they're expecting to hear about.
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Date: 2005-06-24
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NewsGator Online Adds Support for Podcasts
One immediate user benefit from last month's acquisition of FeedDemon by Newsgator is that a new version (beta) of FeedDemon's FeedStation podcatcher was released yesterday which supports NewsGator Online and, soon, NewsGator Outlook Edition...
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Date: 2005-06-24
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Junior Blogging
Okay, so the title is meant to imply that junior staff has taking up blogging as well - whether as students in public relations, those beginning their careers, or those that have targeted their blog to entry-level PR people.
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Date: 2005-06-24
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Surprising User Expectations
One of the most enlightening experiences I've had in my 5+ years at Yahoo was sitting in on some usability tests. Being on the "watching" side of the one way glass is fun.
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Date: 2005-06-23
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BBC blogs the G8
Newsnight, the BBC's flagship news and current affairs TV programme in the UK, will be blogging the G8 summit in Scotland on 6-8 July.
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Date: 2005-06-23
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Trying Out Odeo
So, I got my invite to Odeo, Evan Williams' podcasting service. Thus far, I'm not sure what to do with it.
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Date: 2005-06-23
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Blog Tip: Shake it Up
The following blog tip has been submitted by Jon Gales - the editor of the wonderful MobileTracker blog. Learn more about Jon from this interview we did with him earlier in the year.
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Date: 2005-06-23
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Blue Gene Comes In At the Top of Computer Heap
IBM's Blue Gene/L System ranked #1 in supercomputers in a new top 500 list. The computer figures things out for the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory with an unholy 136.8 teraflops Linpack benchmark. The computer has doubled in size during the last six months after this same computer ranked #1 six months ago.
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Date: 2005-06-22
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Study: Majority of Journalists Use Blogs
ClickZ reports that a new study by Euro RSCG/Columbia University shows that more than 51 percent of journalists use blogs regularly, and 28 percent rely on them to help in their day-to-day reporting duties.
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Date: 2005-06-21
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Ketchum's iffy ideas
PR heavyweight Ketchum has come under considerable fire for the launch of its new-media practice, notably because the company doesn't appear to have any bloggers on its team who can bring any kind of experience to the table.
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Date: 2005-06-21
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Making the most of ecto
At first sight, ecto seems to be a simple desktop client that allows you to author content for your blog. There are a couple of advantages desktop blog tools offer over control panels...
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Date: 2005-06-21
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Death to IMAP Clients
After a long drawn out experience with numerous email clients (mutt/isync, mutt/mailsync, Thunderbird, Eudora, Mail.app, even Outlook Express in a moment of desperation)...
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Date: 2005-06-21
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PlayStation Pornable… Er… Portable
Sony's getting a little steamed as certain software manufacturers steam up the screen of their PSP gaming console with adult content. Sony finds the practice undesirable. I just hope they don't offer their 1998 Godzilla remake, talk about obscene.
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Date: 2005-06-20
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The Continuous Alarm Bell for Telcos
BBC News interviewed Niklas Zennstrom, the CEO of Skype, on Friday. The wide-ranging interview includes commentary on Zennstrom's early venture with Kazaa and discusses Skype and its impact on traditional telephone services.
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Date: 2005-06-20
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Blogs4Troops Launched
Continuing his commitment to providing the US troops in Iraq the means to communicate with loved ones, Drew Olanoff has prepared another service that will offer the necessary tools to run a weblog.
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Date: 2005-06-20
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List of Blog Networks
I've just finalised a revised list of blog networks and posted it here at The Blog Herald for those interested, but I thought I might share a few more thoughts on the subject.
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Date: 2005-06-20
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Collaborative Technologies Conference: Settling In
So, I'm waiting for a session on real-time communication technologies to start. Just sat in on a panel on blogs and wikis for companies. I'm not going blog it, even though it was interesting. Anil Dash from Six Apart was up there, as well as Ross Mayfield from social text and Peter Theony of Twiki. Good stuff, but nothing I didn't really know.
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Date: 2005-06-20
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Coca-Cola: "Remove the Link to Us"
Maybe I shouldn't be surprised, but I am. Big companies should have learned by now. But Coca-Cola stepped in it -- big time -- when they asked the owner of a fan site to remove the link to them.
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Date: 2005-06-20
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CTC Keynote: Thomas Malone
Notes from the Collaborative Technologies Conference in NYC, mirrored in the wiki, from a talk I've heard before by Thomas Malone, the author of The Future of Work -- but also with a quick video conference with Jimmy Wales while talking about Wikipedia.
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Date: 2005-06-20
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Internet Importance In Iranian Elections
Blogs seem to be everywhere anymore, at least on the Internet. What kind of effect do they really have though? They get used to discuss literally everything. But, during the current Iranian election process, blogs have provided something much more fundamental, free speech.
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Date: 2005-06-18
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Dell Wants A Bite of the Apple
Michael Dell, founder and CEO of Dell Computers said he'd like to put Apple's OS on his brand of computers, giving his customer additional choices. This would be great for Dell and PC makers everywhere and could certainly crimp the style of the Seattle slew but would Apple every go for it?
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Date: 2005-06-17
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Ride the Podcasting Long Tail
According to new forecasts from The Diffusion Group, a US-based consumer technology research consultancy, demand for time-shifted digital audio files - that's 'podcasts' to you and me - is expected to grow from less than 15% of portable digital music player owners in the US in 2004 to 75% by 2010.
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Date: 2005-06-17
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Authenticity and Trust
Jesper and Jon is is looking for input on the relation between authenticity and trust. They believe there's a strong relation between them...
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Date: 2005-06-17
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What Does the New Internet Mean for Business?
Perhaps the most fascinating conversation I've had in recent weeks was with Kevin Werbach, Janice Fraser (CEO, Adaptive Path, recently authored A Whole New Internet) and Philip Evans (SVP at Boston Consulting Group, author of Blown to Bits).
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Date: 2005-06-17
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Tech Media This Week
Sam Whitmore, the fellow behind Sam Whitmore's Media Survey, has launched a new podcast you should listen to: Tech Media This Week.
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Date: 2005-06-17
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Blogger Gifts for One and All
Bloggers are very generous people. Bloggers help other bloggers, business people, and website owners (often the same people wear all three hats) all of the time. Offering advice, services, and tons of links, bloggers are simply very giving people.
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Date: 2005-06-17
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PR Gaffe Burns Wal-Mart PR Director and Agency
Daily Telegraph: The Wal-Mart publicity manager behind an advert that equated the retail giant to victims of the Nazis has resigned. Peter Kanelos, who had overseen public relations in Arizona and southern California on behalf of Wal-Mart, left his job yesterday, a few weeks after the company apologised for its PR gaffe.
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Date: 2005-06-16
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PR Face2Face: Julia Hood, Editor in Chief, PR Week
Julia Hood is editor-in-chief of PRWeek, the leading publication for PR and communications professionals. She began her career in publishing, and subsequently held positions in corporate communications for such companies as Mobil and BAT Industries. Hood has been at PRWeek for four years, first as a reporter, then as Bay Area Bureau Chief. She was promoted to her current position in September of 2002. Hood has an MA in journalism from New York University.
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Date: 2005-06-16
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The VHS, DVD Marketing Story
Somewhere Sony founder Akio Morita is smiling. As the world baby steps to a completely digital format for movies, music and other entertainment, VHS is slowly being left behind for the DVD format.
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Date: 2005-06-16
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PR Compensation & Job Satisfaction Survey
Ian Lipner, of YoungPRPros, has launched a compensation and job satisfaction survey for North American public relations practitioners. Survey respondents will receive the full results of the survey-free of charge. Everyone else will get an executive summary. ALL responses will be completely anonymous and individual responses will NOT be shared with anyone.
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Date: 2005-06-16
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Can Ketchum Walk the New Media Talk?
I was reading the press release issued yesterday by Ketchum Public Relations announcing their new service offering called Ketchum Personalized Media: "a global service that advises organizations to know how, why and when to integrate the growing roster of online and wireless media - from blogs and podcasts to mobile marketing - into their overall communications strategy," according to the announcement.
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Date: 2005-06-16
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Now 3,600 Internal Blogs at IBM
Fredrik Wacka posted a great snapshot report on internal blogging at IBM: Through the central blog dashboard at the intranet W3, IBMers now can find more than 3,600 blogs written by their co-workers. As of June 13 there were 3,612 internal blogs with 30,429 posts.
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Date: 2005-06-16
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The Next Wave in Video Communication
I received a press release in my email overnight from Stuart Jacobson at Santa Cruz Networks announcing vSkype, what looks to be a very cool tool for holding video conference calls via Skype.
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Date: 2005-06-16
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British Firm BT Group Launches Combined Mobile/Land Line
British telecom giant BT announced the world's first venture into combining mobile and land line services into the new BT Fusion service. BT customers will be able to switch between their mobile and landed broadband lines as they come and go from their home or office.
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Date: 2005-06-15
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Stalker News Update: GPS Panties Ain’t Real?
Okay I admit it. Like a bunch of other media figures who didn't do enough homework on a story, I bought it hook, line, and sinker. On May 27, 2005, I posted a story about Forget-Me-Not GPS-enabled panties, only to find out later that I was utterly hornswaggled.
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Date: 2005-06-14
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Microsoft and China: The Cost Of Doing Business
Everyone knows right China is ripe for business, particularly the e-business. The population of China has number of well over 1 billion people for some years now and they are growing by leaps and bounds. They are literally a neo-industrial revolution.
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Date: 2005-06-14
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Sony Ericsson: Heapin’ Helpin’ Of Wireless Toys
Mobile phone maker Sony Ericsson announced their new players in the phone market with 5 phone products, including a new 3G phone and they have a wide variety of features to peruse, play with and pay for. No price points were mentioned but one could assume prices would be competitive with similar offerings from companies like Nokia.
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Date: 2005-06-13
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Trojan Horse Rides In On Michael Jackson Suicide Note
The latest trick on the "lets mess up people's computers" front is also an exercise in extraordinarily bad taste. On Thursday, British security firm, Sophos labs picked on Trojan horse packed into an email posing as a suicide note for the pop singer.
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Date: 2005-06-11
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Intel Raises Its Expectations
As demand continues to be strong for notebook products, Intel has revised its sales forecast for the second quarter. Before it had predicted sales between $8.6 billion to $9.2 billion.
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Date: 2005-06-10
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Microsoft Ten-ders New Security Update
Microsoft has 10 new security bulletins lined up for release next week. The June 14th release promises a number of other updates. The will air a webcast on Wednesday to discuss the details of the updates.
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Date: 2005-06-10
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Sony And Toshiba Prepare For DVD War
The warlord known as Sony rides back to camp. He tells his generals there could be no parley with the lord Toshiba. They cannot decide whose sword will rule. No compromise can be reached. He commanded his generals to ride and muster soldiers from all corners of the land to prepare for the War of the Blue Light.
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Date: 2005-06-10
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Media Hackers
Dave Winer and Steve Gillmor have coined a new phrase - media hackers. I like it. Dave envisions a future where the biggest podcaster is not Rush Limbaugh, but media-hacker stars that have yet to come to the forefront.
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Date: 2005-06-09
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Stickiness
One thing all bloggers and webmasters want is return visitors. Many of us watch the stats and monitor this critical measurement of web success…if you come back time and time again, you must like me.
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Date: 2005-06-09
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HD-DVD-R: Toshiba Fingers Its Blade
The mighty warrior Toshiba fingers his katana as sweat drips from his brow. After many minutes of this battle of wills with the warlord known only as Sony, a smile crept onto the face of Toshiba. He had gained something, if only briefly, in this contest of honor.
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Date: 2005-06-09
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Blogs as
Revenue Roundtable put thought leader content into context, and one of the tools is obviously blogs. Take a look, there's a nice mindmap of the different sources.
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Date: 2005-06-09
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Schwarzenegger Podcasts
Podcasting knows no boundaries as a communication channel. It was just a matter of time before high-profile and internationaly-known politicians embraced this medium.
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Date: 2005-06-08
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Wired Tries to Adapt to the Blog Age
Blogs are forcing journalists and journalism to become more accountable. And those who can't beat the bloggers at their own game (news/opinion), really better join them in adopting their best practices.
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Date: 2005-06-08
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Pushing the Boundaries on Blogs: Do Fake Blogs Work?
Blogging continues to move out of the realm of personal diarists and into the hands of business professionals and marketers. The transition isn't always smooth, especially as creative marketers use blogs in new ways to promote products, businesses and business strategies.
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Date: 2005-06-08
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Marketers, Get to Know Joe Blog
Posting's been light the last few days, for no real reason other than my laziness, but some issues have been stewing in the back of my head and I'll be posting more on them here shortly...
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Date: 2005-06-08
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Microsoft Finally Releases Microsoft Update
Microsoft today at TechEd finally took the wraps off Microsoft Update, the new one-stop-shop for updates to everything Microsoft makes. The new system works with Windows' existing automatic update system, so its all good.
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Date: 2005-06-08
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Pretty pictures :a question of blog aesthetics.
Is a blog that uses pictures in its posts more likely to succeed that a blog that posts identical content but doesn't use the pictures? Sure, we know that there are many other considerations in the success or otherwise of a blog, but take a pure economists view of a perfect market where both blogs are identical in every other way.
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Date: 2005-06-08
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On Patch Management
Microsoft sought to combat a widening public perception that open source solutions (OSS) were less expensively patched than comparable Windows systems.
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Date: 2005-06-08
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Windows XP N Is Shipping
Microsoft is sending out Windows XP N, the version without Media Player forced on them by a free market unfriendly EU, to manufacturers on June 15.
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Date: 2005-06-08
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Microsoft vs. Apple: Comedy Wars
Apple and Microsoft spent portions of recent conferences poking fun at each other. Todd Bishop notes that Steve Jobs at Apple's developer conference displayed a widget for Mac OS X's Dashboard that counts down to Longhorn, 574 days away (inaccurate! Longhorn is just under 500 days away, if it ships on time…).
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Date: 2005-06-08
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Travel Blogs Bypass Media
Rather than rely on travel writers to tout the best Pennsylvania destinations, the state's tourism office is relying on six bloggers to document their travels throughout the state. The AP tells us that...
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Date: 2005-06-08
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Yahoo Mail On Sprint Mobile Devices
Sprint customers can now get enhanced access to Yahoo Mail on their mobile devices. The two companies announced the launch of the first downloadable Yahoo Mail client application made for this purpose.
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Date: 2005-06-08
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Bloggers: Slim Down!
Could someone tell Russell Beattie to stop putting ultra-wide images in his blog posts? They keep breaking my aggregator, forcing me to either scroll back and forth sideways, or just skip the posts and hope I can understand the gist from the 80% of the text I can read.
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Date: 2005-06-08
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Is Apple’s Intel Switch the Beginning of a Cinderella Story?
For years the Mac was a highly specialized PC, ignored by most, but loved by certain industry aficionados. But no matter how dearly adored it was for its stability, security, and usefulness in the layout and design professions, it didn't have the appeal that came with heavy hitter Microsoft and Windows OS.
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Date: 2005-06-08
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Paying For Downloads? Why Not?
NPD just released some new figures suggesting that paid musical downloads are catching up to free albeit illegal, peer to peer downloads. This must be sweet music to the ear of the recording industry as services like WinMX and Itunes proliferate.
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Date: 2005-06-08
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Apple Newsbites
As the legendary computer company kicks off its WorldWide Developers Conference, Apple makes some big and some little news.
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Date: 2005-06-07
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Apples and Oranges No More; Intel-based Macs?
The days of "the only things Macs are good for are graphic design and newspapers" appear to be coming to a close. It seems like a smart move, as the years of product placement in movies like "You've Got Mail" haven't helped Apple regain the ground it lost to Microsoft in the 90's.
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Date: 2005-06-07
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Microsoft Pushes Blackberry Into Juicer
Microsoft announced plans to jam, can and push Blackberry's email system onto the back shelf when Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer announced the Messaging and Security Feature Pack for Windows Mobile 5.0.
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Date: 2005-06-07
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First The Foundation, Then The PR
What next for European unity, following the rejection of the idea of a European constitution by voters in France and The Netherlands?
Stuart Mudie wonders if Europe needs better PR:
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Date: 2005-06-06
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A Shout Out to Backpack
You can't read many blogs lately -- especially those relating to the ubiquitous getting things done (GTD) meme -- without stumbling across a glowing review of Backpack.
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Date: 2005-06-06
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Guest blogging: Higher profile
Guest blogging.
It's definitely something you should consider doing as a blogger.
If you have a blog, having occasional guest bloggers appear on your own blog, is often a good idea as well.
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Date: 2005-06-06
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Podcasts And Interactivity
I reported recently on an ITWorld.com article that listed five reasons businesses should consider podcasting. One of them was that podcasts encourage two-way communication with listeners. Specifically, according to the author James Lewin,
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Date: 2005-06-06
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Ma Bell & Pa Bill: AT&T And Microsoft Look For Synergy
AT&T and Microsoft announce they are building a "strategic alliance" for the future. The program "revolutionizes" the next generation of IP communication. The press release for this big announcement was a bit lengthy but overall, this could be an extremely competitive offering in light of many other teams and mergers seen lately. The first big goal will be VoIPing the two companies.
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Date: 2005-06-06
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John Edwards' Video Blog
When they talk about convergence, I don't think this is what they mean, but convergence is exactly what it is. Sen. John Edwards, already a podcaster, has introduced a video blog-or vlog-that takes the form of an interview.
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Date: 2005-06-06
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Blog Conferences
The 2nd Blog Business Summit has been announced - it's just a few months away in August this year. I followed the last one closely online and would have loved to get to it partly for a number of the sessions which I really enjoyed but mainly because so many bloggers that I enjoy readers were there.
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Date: 2005-06-06
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HolidayBlogger
The time has come friends where I check out of ProBlogging and slip into some serious HolidayBlogging (or HolidayNonBlogging as the case will be).
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Date: 2005-06-06
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Blogging Domain Name Brand Mantra
Darren asks, ‘What's in A Blog Name?‘. He's right, a name is a very important piece of becoming a successful blog. Think branding…it's all about branding. Certain names and words flow off the tounge and are more memorable than others.
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Date: 2005-06-06
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Blogging Data We Can All Learn From
The BlogKits 2005 Blogging & Advertising Survey is about to close up. Here's the best part. I'm going to release the raw data from this study on ProBlogger.net next week for anyone to download and analyze as they see fit.
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Date: 2005-06-06
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The Process of Fundraising and Making Sausage
On April 28th we held a contest for the first blogger to post five details of the Series B Socialtext closed. Now, the details are out in our local paper. Socialtext raised a $3.1 million Series B round led by Tim Draper at DFJ that closed on April 15th.
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Date: 2005-06-06
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Big Blue Madness: If Only IBM Had A Brain?
IBM and The Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) announced they are beginning work on an artificial brain designed on the cellular level. They call this project the "Big Blue Brain". They should come to Kentucky in October; we've got millions of people with big blue brains.
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Date: 2005-06-06
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Policies Compared: Today's Corporate Blogging Rules
On four points, all of the eight most well-known corporate blogging policies agree -- corporate bloggers are personally responsible and they should abide by existing rules, keep secrets and be nice. Those four principles are the core of today's corporate blogging rules.
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Date: 2005-06-06
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Toon Boom Studio V3 Showcased at MIFA 2005
Toon Boom Animation announced today Toon Boom Studio V3 will be showcased at MIFA 2005, in Annecy, France. A Pre-Launch Special at $ 299.99 US is now offered to order Toon Boom Studio V3 before it is available and take advantage of a significant discount.
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Date: 2005-06-06
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Building Rock Star PR Teams
One of the most interesting things that I encounter in public relations is team building. Not the touchy-feely stuff that you go on goofy retreats for, the team camaraderie building stuff, but on how you build a great team.
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Date: 2005-06-06
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Konfabulator 2 rocks
This says it all about the folks behind the latest version of Konfabulator, an application that lets you run a wide range of programs called widgets on your desktop.
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Date: 2005-06-06
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Microsoft Push Will Jam Blackberry
Microsoft announced plans to squeeze the juice out of Blackberry when Steve Ballmer presented Windows Mobile 5.0. The new OS provides a number of new features for the handheld market and promises to hit companies like Research In Motion (RIM) and Good Technologies below the keypad.
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Date: 2005-06-06
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Does This Make Om Malik the Pat O'Brien of VOIP?
Om Malik likens VOIP to the "It Girl" Lindsay Lohan, saying it gets a disproportionate amount of ink for no apparent reason. Of course he's just kidding. Obviously he knows it's important given how frequently he enlightens readers about it.
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Date: 2005-06-05
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Blogs Away: Why Blogs Are Important To Market Strategy
It is a "whodathunkit" kind of thing, isn't it? A web log, with its straightforward elegance, its honest and reciprocal dialogue, its inexpensiveness (though time is money), has become the next darling of marketing and public relations-a real time, two-way walkie-talkie, a bulletin board of instant feedback.
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Date: 2005-06-03
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ICANN: Internet Wide Open For XXX
Porno sites with sexually explicit material received their own top level domain (TLD) on the Internet as the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) begins to review a plan to change the suffix designation .xxx. The primary reason the domain designation is to help people filter out adult oriented content.
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Date: 2005-06-03
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Hackers Booby Trap MSN
Microsoft is scratching its head trying to figure out how hackers hijacked MSN's South Korean website (www.msn.co.kr). The invaders' goal was to obtain user passwords.
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Date: 2005-06-03
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Apple Cranks Out iPod Recycling Program
Apple offers its customers an iPod recycling program for the iPod line of products including the iPod, the iPod Mini and the iPod photo. The offer extends to one of 100 Apple retail stores and customers will receive a 10% discount on their next iPod purchase that day. Meaning one can't take it in today and come back on Thursday to get the new iPod then. Inevitably, it will be tried.
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Date: 2005-06-03
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Sun Rises With StorageTek
Sun Microsystems is buying Storage Technology Corporation or StorageTek for $37 per share in cash, adding up to about $4.1 billion. The acquisition has been approved by the boards of both companies.
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Date: 2005-06-02
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ICANN Changes Porn Site Domains to .XXX
Porn websites with sexually explicit material will claim their own top level domain (TLD) on the Internet as the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) begins to review a plan to change the suffix designation .xxx. The primary reason the domain designation is to help people filter out adult oriented content.
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Date: 2005-06-02
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Gnomedex Getting Close to Sold Out
Earlier this evening I had dinner with Chris Pirillo. He's very excited about his conference, named Gnomedex and told me that tickets are almost sold out so if you wanna come, don't wait too much longer to get a ticket.
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Date: 2005-06-02
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How To Undermine Your Own PR Efforts
Recent statements by US President George W. Bush and some of his top staff members makes you wonder if they're getting or ignoring advice from people who understand the principles of public relations. It almost seems like a deliberate attempt to undermine their own PR efforts.
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Date: 2005-06-02
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The Importance of Blog Taglines
Steven is doing another interesting experiment over at Vaspers the Grate and is looking at Blog Taglines. He's put 59 blogs with their titles and taglines side by side and is asking for comment on them. He writes:
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Date: 2005-06-02
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New Office Formats Will Be Open XML
Microsoft has announced that it will make XML the standard format for all Office programs when it releases Office 12 next year. Microsoft says this will mainly benefit businesses who need to tap into a variety of databases, and will discuss more details at TechEd next week.
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Date: 2005-06-02
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Affiliate Program Tips for Bloggers
Shai gives some good tips on hope to Make The Most Out of Affiliate Programs:
‘1) Provide good reasons for readers and visitors to keep coming back to your site where you have your affiliate links.
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Date: 2005-06-02
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Listen to RSS feeds
The RSS Diary reports of Speakwire, a service that allows you to listen to (selected) feeds instead of reading them. I haven't checked it out in detail, but the basic idea is great. Both Rob at the RSS Diary and Speakwire makes a strange comparison, though.
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Date: 2005-06-02
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Evangelists generate revenue
We know the power of Word of Mouth already, many os us, but this is a great example.
From WOMMA: "...only five customer evangelists were responsible for generating $200,000 in sales (35-40% of its total revenue) for one liquor store in Chicago...
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Date: 2005-06-02
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CMT Pays Man $100K Salary to Blog
CNN Money reports that Country Music Television has signed Chris Nelson to a one-year $100,000 deal to watch reruns of "The Dukes of Hazzard" on the cable channel and write blog postings for the network's Web site.
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Date: 2005-06-02
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Verizon Invites Small Business to Try DSL
Verizon announced today a plan to let small business take advantage of high-speed access through their Business DSL program. Rebates will bring the cost down on the first three months of a one-year contract.
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Date: 2005-06-02
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Online Shoppers Not Very Market Savvy
All's not fair in love and Internet shopping. And a new study, entitled "Open to Exploitation" shows that online shoppers are clueless about their vulnerability to abuse from retailers.
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> News > eBusiness News
Date: 2005-06-01
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eBay Goes Shopping
eBay announced that it is buying comparison-shopping site Shopping.com for about $620 million in cash. The acquisition will give eBay's many sellers a new sales channel and access to a new set of buyers.
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Date: 2005-06-01
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