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Martha Stewart's parlor seeks open source writer-flies

Building an open source bridge between the great writers and the wannabes, like me. What a clever idea. But that company name is faintly familiar, Martha Stewart! by Dana Blankenhorn

Tags: Journalist, Martha Stewart, Intellectual Property, Open Source, Research & Development, Business Operations, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-07-02

Scribes, professionals and the decline of mass media

Clay Shirky, in his Here Comes Everybody, devotes a chapter, "Everyone is a media outlet", to a comparison of the decline of scribal production to the decline of "professional" journalism. He sets up this analogy on faulty legs that leave the argument that "what was once a chasm is now...

Tags: Journalist, Journalism, Stock, Media, Photograph, Image, Music, Investment, Document Management, Finance, Enterprise Software, Software, Managerial Accounting, Mitch Ratcliffe

Blog posts 2008-06-09

Photos: Microsoft previews 2008 Xbox games

Microsoft's Spring Showcase shows off some of its forthcoming 2008 title releases to journalists in San Francisco.Microsoft took over Dogpatch Studios in San Francisco for the Showcase event. The company set up stations around the studio to show off games like Too Human, Ninja Gaiden, Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts and...

Tags: Journalist, San Francisco, Microsoft Corp., Photograph, Microsoft Xbox, Games, Personal Technology, CNET News.com

Image galleries 2008-05-13

The age of the open kimono

The idea of the open kimono has become a financial cliche the last few years. (KyotoKimono makes a fine line of kimonos to fit occidentals on purpose.) To open the kimono means you're being transparent, that you're telling us the straight story, that these numbers can be...

Tags: Journalist, Blogging, Corporate Governance, Financial Accounting, Open Source, Internet, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Finance, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-01-22

Additional Resources

How sick is Steve Jobs?

How sick is Steve Jobs?Not appropriate to ...discuss someone's health in a public blog. Privacy should remain private.how long before M$ goes belly up?with Gate$ gone, M$ is even in a worst position since he too was relying on brainless drones.RE: How sick is Steve Jobs?[i]Jobs has insisted to friends...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Steve Jobs, health care

Discussion threads 2008-07-23

Survey: Corporations hold out on Vista

Survey: Corporations hold out on VistaLarry isn't going to give it up...It's sad what passes for "journalism" these days. ZDNet and her "sister site" TechRepublic are so one sided it's laughable. Is this "survey" really supposed to be passed as truth? The survey was conducted by a company KACE that...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows Vista, survey, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-07-23

Citizen journalism and traditional news

I've been experimenting recently with CNN's site for "citizen journalism" named iReport.  I created a few video posts of myself in response to requests for questions targeted at future visitors to Wolf Blitzer's "The Situation Room" (you can see my iReport site here - http://www.ireport.com/people/JohnCarroll). There are a few kinks in...

Tags: Video Camera, Video, Camera, Corporate Communications, Marketing, John Carroll

Blog posts 2008-07-21

Q'n'A: Your correspondence to date

Over the last week or two, I've been inundated with an email. On a serious note, there have been a few questions asked; not that they need clarification as I've already covered these things, I'll answer these anyway. Q. [Email] Open Source ERP5 is now used to...

Tags: Mobile, E-mail, Public Relations, Online Communications, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2008-07-21

Tough love: Linux needs more haters

Tough love: Linux needs more hatersGood article, JeremyI'm currently setting up our company network on Linux and will likely be bumping into some of those Samba issues. Complicated by having a mixed OS environment on the client side. Yeah, that's going to be fun. Nice that Google...

Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Linux

Discussion threads 2008-07-18

Mystery Stories: Island of Hope (exe)

Top New York journalist Michelle Deanfield is finally taking a much needed Caribbean vacation. Join her on the white sands amidst the magic of the Mayan culture, steeped in legend and divinity. Not to mention, a good-looking diving instructor in her view. Everything is rosy for Michelle, that is, until...

Tags: Curse, SpinTop Games, Games, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2008-07-17

Amanda Chapel, aka "Strumpette," needs some tough love

I had a strange Twitter back-and-forth with "Amanda Chapel," the pseudonymous authors of a PR blog called "Strumpette," about the nature of the hacker ethic. I personally don't think the hacker ethic is very effective as a counterpoint to the system of intellectual property it decries, because hackers seem intent...

Tags: Hacker, Twitter, Amanda Chapel, Hacking, Security, Mitch Ratcliffe

Blog posts 2008-07-14

A Modest Privacy Proposal

The Senate Commerce, Science & Transportation Committee is holding a hearing tomorrow on Privacy Implications of Online Advertising. Appearing before the committee headed by long-time Senator Daniel K. Inouye (D-Hawaii) are lawyers for Google and Microsoft, as well as Facebook's chief privacy officer -- and Robert R. Dykes, the chairman...

Tags: Google Inc., Web, Internet Service Provider, Service Provider, Internet Service, Internet, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Business Services, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2008-07-08

YouTube vs. Viacom: Google's IP wins; Users lose

YouTube vs. Viacom: Google's IP wins; Users loseCompetition?Does Viacom think that a 10 minute pixellated clip of a show or movie is really competition for seeing the entire show/movie on a TV or big screen? This is getting ridiculous. If anything, having these clips on YouTube is free...

Tags: Network technology, NETWORKING, Viacom Inc., Google IP, YouTube Inc., IP, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-07-03

My 15 minutes with Bill Gates, and how the Web was born

Once upon a time, when Bill Gates still flew commercial and I was a budding journalist in need of a haircut, I had a number of opportunities to interview and otherwise interact with Bill Gates. It was often contentious, always intriguing, and more often than not frustrating as well. Part...

Tags: Web, Multimedia, PC, Bill Gates, Bill, Desktops, Hardware, Joshua Greenbaum

Blog posts 2008-06-30

Gates: Yahoo deal unlikely

During his last day as a full-time Microsoft employee, Microsoft's Bill Gates told Tom Brokaw he does not think a deal with Yahoo was likely. NEW YORK--Microsoft's Bill Gates told journalist Tom Brokaw he does not think a deal with Yahoo was likely, CNBC reported on Friday. ...

Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Bill Gates, Microsoft Corp., Tom Brokaw, Internet, Reuters, Microsoft, Yahoo

News items 2008-06-27

Microsoft Hyper-V and Spin Marketing

It is not at all uncommon for competitors to arrange a briefing prior to a large, important announcement to present their marketing spin on the announcement. They are, of course, hoping to change the viewpoint of the analyst, journalist, consulting, etc. to their liking and, in the end, produce a...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., Announcement, Marketing Research, Marketing, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-06-27

AV in the cloud... wait, what?

AV in the cloud... wait, what?further adieu? :-DHow about 'further ado'... ;-)It is a gneiss article all in all though.That original article isn't just vague,it is downright poor.If you haven't called into question some bad AV depending on what is really going on at Trend Micro, you've definitely called into...

Tags: Nate

Discussion threads 2008-06-25

Yahoo silent on latest rumors of renewed Microsoft talks

Yahoo silent on latest rumors of renewed Microsoft talksIs Microsoft really going to just walk away?Q. "Is Microsoft really going to just walk away?A. They already did! Jerry Yang is dead meet now!RE: Yahoo silent on latest rumors of renewed Microsoft talksI think Microsoft is done with Yahoo!...

Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., latest rumor

Discussion threads 2008-06-25

An answer to AP's anti-blog policy: quote freely but carry adtribution link

An answer to AP's anti-blog policy: quote freely but carry adtribution linkAssaults on Fair Use benefit no oneThe AP is hurting themselves as well as their consumers by this short-sighted action. While use of an entire article or other substantial body of work is copyright infringement, there is an important...

Tags: adtribution, fair use, news article

Discussion threads 2008-06-21

See your potential future salaries

See your potential future salariesHere @ MexicoInteresting post!Here at Mexico an average employed software developer earns between 12K-23K USD.And there is a lot developers out there working in US companies.Become an astronaut ...I haven't checked the website mentioned, but the basic logic shown in the blog article is flawed. ...

Tags: Benefits, payroll solutions, Web site development, future salary, salary

Discussion threads 2008-06-11