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- Our colleague Mitch Radcliffe needs a new neck. He says he has good insurance, but the carrier won't spring for the replacement part he wants. (They even have PDF installation instructions. Great for do-it-yourselfers (that's a joke).) Mitch says new discs would be better than...
- Tags: Patient, Fusion, Carrier, Mitch Radcliffe, Insurance, Financial Planning, Business Operations, Corporate Insurance, Finance, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-01-08
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- Webcasting - and Pandora - saved!
- The Senate passed the Webcaster Settlement Act, described here. The bill goes to President Bush, who is expected to sign it. "I'm relieved, optimistic, and grateful to our listeners," said Tim Westergren, founder of Pandora. (News.com) Even the RIAA was...
- Tags: Webcasting, RIAA, Webcaster, Digital Media, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-09-30
- eBooks: The first step of a long change
- After polling all of you about the right price for an eBook device and the kinds of documents you are buying, as well as doing a lot of research over the last couple months, it's clear that the eBooks market is growing. It's also clear that there are huge hurdles...
- Tags: Device, Amazon Kindle, BeBooks, E-books, Personal Technology, Mitch Ratcliffe
- Blog posts 2008-09-21
- News to know: HP; Apple patches; Microsoft; Social networking
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Sam Diaz: HP to cut nearly 25,000 jobs as part of EDS integration Larry Dignan: IBM targets HP's server beachhead HP vs. IBM: The looming IT...
- Tags: Security, Facebook, High Tech Computer Corp., Larry Dignan, Mozilla Firefox, Hewlett-Packard Co., Network, Patch Management, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Shuttleworth, Microsoft Windows, Web Browsers, Apple Mac OS X, Social Networking, Operating Systems, Digital Media, Software, Internet, Apple Mac OS, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology
- Blog posts 2008-09-16
- Inner8.com launches: Here are 100 early access invites to new stock site
- Inner8.com, a new investing intelligence site, goes live today. I've got 100 invites, so if you'd like to try it out, click below. Inner8 started out as Jambaz.com more than a year ago. I participated in their early testing and, after they tried some ideas, the...
- Tags: Stock, Investment, Finance, Mitch Ratcliffe
- Blog posts 2008-09-15
- Hackers deface LHC site, came close to turning off particle detector
- Is it now cyberwar over atom-smashing? A team of Greek hackers calling themselvses Greek Security Team has penetrated the Large Hadron Collider and defaced a public website. No real damage done, but the hackers got perilously close. The hackers attacked the Compact Muon Solenoid Experiment, or...
- Tags: Hacker, Content Management System, LHC, Hacking, Security, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-09-12
- News to know: Windows 7 Beta; Google; $2,000 PC; Gates & Seinfeld; iTunes 8 fix
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Ryan Naraine: Secunia launches pay-as-you-go exploit shop Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: The $2,000 build-it-yourself gaming/video editing/photo editing PC Gallery: The $2,000 build-it-yourself gaming/video editing/photo...
- Tags: Google Inc., Microsoft Windows 7, PC, Apple Inc., Video, Beta, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, Apple iTunes, Corporate Communications, Microsoft Windows, Wiki, Marketing, Operating Systems, Software, Online Communications, David Grober
- Blog posts 2008-09-12
- LHC, Genomics and the era of massive data sets
- The world won't end when the Large Hadron Collider makes its anticipated first collision of high-energy particles later this month, but it will produce an explosion of data. The LHC will produce as much data in a single day of experimentation as many scientists dealt with in a lifetime only...
- Tags: Data, Data Set, Policies And Procedures, Benefits, Robots, Wiki, Strategy, Human Resources, Emerging Technologies, Online Communications, Management, Mitch Ratcliffe
- Blog posts 2008-09-11
- News to know: DEMO, Google, Live Mesh apps, Microsoft PCs
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Ed Bott: Should Microsoft get into the PC hardware business? OEM licensing confusion starts at Microsoft.com Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: What could Microsoft bring to the PC hardware...
- Tags: Google Inc., PC, Microsoft Corp., Engineering, Microsoft Windows, Sales Strategy, Operating Systems, Software, Sales, David Grober
- Blog posts 2008-09-09
- LHC and Faith-Based Science
- Public reaction to the Large Hadron Collider is so ignorant and brain-dead we need a theory to explain what's going on. I asked Charles King at Pund-IT for a theory. He offered this: I believe that much of the public reaction to the LHC is grounded in...
- Tags: Science, LHC, Research & Development, Homeland Security, Business Operations, Government, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-09-08
- Social design advice for Starbucks
- Social design advice for StarbucksDaily Discussion StartersIt's interesting how easy it is for huge organizations to start new activities. I tried to start a current events newsletter to promote discussion in classrooms, for more than a year, and finally I gave up because it didn't get any traction. ...
- Tags: Social networking, Starbucks Corp., Social design advice, Social Design
- Discussion threads 2008-09-08
- Social design advice for Starbucks
- Starbucks announced today it will begin a daily "Good Sheet" of news about politics, health care and other issues that it will distribute in its stores as a way to start conversations. According to a Starbucks executive quoted by The Motley Fool, the company is looking for "conversation starters." It...
- Tags: Starbucks Corp., Store, Good Sheet Experiment, Corporate Communications, Social Networking, Digital Music, Marketing, Online Communications, Advertising & Promotion, Personal Technology, Mitch Ratcliffe
- Blog posts 2008-09-08
- News to know: Google; Green IT; Oracle; Apple
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Jason Perlow: To Boldly Go Where No Search Engine Has Gone Before Beet.TV: Breaking News: Satellite to Gather Exclusive Images for Google Earth Blasts off in California...Larry...
- Tags: Google Inc., Oracle Corp., Dana Blankenhorn, Green IT, Apple Inc., Video, Microsoft Corp., Google Chrome, Corporate Communications, Rootkits, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Microsoft Windows, Game Players, Marketing, Security, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Operating Systems, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-09-08
- Microsoft builds $300M cathedral to Bill Gates, hires Jerry Seinfeld as Pope
- I'm just having a little fun.... I don't get the Seinfeld commercial. They are selling Bill, not Windows. What's with that? Bill retired in July. This just in from Adweek's commercials critic, Barbara Lippert: The Future. Delicious" is the sign-off, but I am...
- Tags: Bill Gates, Ass, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Branding, Web Browsers, Strategy, Operating Systems, Software, Marketing, Internet, Management, Mitch Ratcliffe
- Blog posts 2008-09-05
- LHC scientists get death threats
- LHC scientists get death threatsIgnorance produces fear...And issuing death threats is not the christian thing to do. And $10.00 to a donut will get you that a religiously motivated faction is behind the threats. Something to research further.RE: LHC scientists get death threats - is it because Roger Federer lost...
- Tags: Anti-Matter, LHC, death threat
- Discussion threads 2008-09-05
- Should political postings stay or go? A survey.
- Should political postings stay or go? A survey.Please Speak FreelyAdmittedly, the subject matter was off-topic but adding the occasional non-relevant opinion is a very human thing to do, certainly not to be chastised, regardless of idealogical objection.Kevin, G-Portal UKhttp://cms.da.gpRE: Should political postings stay or go? A survey.Mitch you have at...
- Tags: Blogging, political posting, blogger, survey
- Discussion threads 2008-09-05
- Should political postings stay or go? A survey.
- I've been blogging for ZD Net for several years, writing for ZD publications for almost 20 years. I've always found readers to be intelligent and thoughtful, which is why I continue to do this while doing other things as "work." My posting, A virus in your genes, think about that,...
- Tags: U.S., R&D, Discovery, Blog, Politics, Survey, Creationism, Rational Rants, Research & Development, Blogging, Business Operations, Internet, Mitch Ratcliffe
- Blog posts 2008-09-04
- News to know: Oracle's Fusion guru quits; Dell; Windows 7 boot times
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Dennis Howlett: Breaking: Oracle's Andersen gone, where now for Fusion and vertical plays? Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: New dual/quad core CPUs enter Intel price list, AMD drops prices ...
- Tags: Google Inc., Dell Computer Corp., Oracle Corp., Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Portals, Operating Systems, Cellular Phones, Software, Internet, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-09-04
- A virus in our genes, think about that....
- Really fascinating news: Virus is passed from parent to child in the DNA. Researchers found that roseola, an infection that everyone apparently gets but only 20 percent of children develop the characteristic rash that gives it its name, is actually in our DNA. It co-evolved into us, which raises some...
- Tags: DNA, Chromosome, Virus, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security, Mitch Ratcliffe
- Blog posts 2008-09-03
- Attention Craig Newmark: Citizens aren't customers
- Attention Craig Newmark: Citizens aren't customersDemocracy versus politicsThank you for discussing the difference between spectator politics and participative democracy. It seems to me that technology can definitely be put to better use for enabling the latter. At the risk of rambling, perhaps that might be a role that the newspaper...
- Tags: Government, Attention Craig Newmark
- Discussion threads 2008-08-28
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