August 27, 2008 at 7:00 am · Filed under del.icio.us
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"… If the bus company has to meet labor, environmental, and equipment standards to cart passengers around for a fee, it could easily be undercut by unlicensed shared-ride operations, it says. Whether that turns out to be true or not, Trentway finds itself in the same basic situation that existing business like Encyclopedia Britannica faced when free or low-cost upstarts like Wikipedia threatened to crowd-source their core product into oblivion"
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August 26, 2008 at 1:19 pm · Filed under Uncategorized
Both Ed Vielmetti and Juliet Sutherland have suggested I subscribe to the Read2.0-l mailing list.
Thing is, they’ve never forwarded instructions, and the general state of affairs on the Web these days means it’s nigh impossible to Google instructions on how to subscribe, what’s expected, or even what goes on there. Far as I know, an old blog entry of mine made the rounds… and nonetheless I had no idea except for a forwarded message or two, years back.
So, listserv generation: Taking a walled garden and subsequently forgetting the walls are even there? Weird and kinda scary, by modern standards. That would be feeling like a secret, invisible walled garden overgrown and emitting no noises.
Very Harry Potter, mind you.
August 26, 2008 at 6:01 am · Filed under del.icio.us
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August 23, 2008 at 8:02 am · Filed under del.icio.us
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"My opinion, and its a strong one, is to encourage entrepreneurs to band together and help each other. Lets face it, great minds think alike. When you get a bunch of great minds together in one place, it can be like watching the best fireworks you’ve ever seen. Be warned though, ALWAYS know your scope and what your needs are. Only give what you get and make sure there is a value to everything that you do."
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"In one sense, the Northwest Indian War — fought between the U.S. and the assorted tribes of the Western (Wabash) Confederacy — actually represented the conclusion the American Revolution. As the Mohawk leader Joseph Brant famously described it, the end of that war resulted in the sale of Native people to the US Congress."
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"When SoundExchange, the organization that represents many labels and artists, proposed steep new royalty rates for radio webcasters last year, they shortsightedly killed off their own revenue stream. Instead of their proposed rates being cut back as part of a standard negotiation, they were surprised to see the U.S. Copyright Royalty Board reject opposing arguments and adopt SoundExchange's rates fully. Now Pandora, the popular streaming music site, says it's paying over 70% of its revenue in royalties, and unless Washington changes the rates soon—which looks unlikely— they will have to shut down."
August 22, 2008 at 8:01 am · Filed under del.icio.us
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"6: The argument for free trade comes from Ricardo's "comparative advantage" — a clever textbook exercise, but irrelevant to the real world since it assumes constant costs. In reality, either you produce manufactured goods, in which your costs go down as you make more, or you sell off commodities, in which case your costs go up as you make more. With the former, it takes time for local industry to build up the advantage (requiring protectionism). With the latter, you end up like Mongolia, which opened up its animal husbandry market, swelling herd sizes, turning grass into permanent desert, and killing off the entire market. With no other exports, such a country is in big trouble. Ricardo was wrong: diversification, not specialization, is the way to develop — and how every successful country has. Unfortunately, we've forced this broken system on most of the world….
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"… Unlike most pollsters, Penn never releases his raw numbers, only his analysis. So we must take it on faith that his methodology is rigorous, his polls accurate and his interpretations fair. This book is our first opportunity to observe, at length, how adroitly Penn handles raw data. And the answer is stunning, even to a doubter like me. Mark Penn cannot handle numbers. If this book were turned in as the final to an entry-level statistics class, Penn would not only be failed, but the professor might well retire in shame."
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"It's the 2000's version of redbaiting. Pick a few wildly unrepresentative outrages, and tar an entire system with them. (If the article were entitled “Is the Ivy League Still Worth It?,” it would at least be a little closer to honest.) Moving from outrage to outrage, without even a feint towards actual analysis, the piece is obviously intended to generate self-righteous, undifferentiated anger. And the taxpayers who feel that anger direct it at the public sector, where it damages the reasonably-priced majority."
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"In Alabama it is illegal to recommend shades of paint without a license. In Nevada it is illegal to move any large piece of furniture for purposes of design without a license."
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developers raving about it
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"Critical to the decision to opening the new store locations was the belief that consumers in Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti want coffee at a lower cost without sacrificing quality, he said."
August 20, 2008 at 5:06 am · Filed under del.icio.us
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"The tendency is worrying, because the implication of bestness and a one true way is closing your options for applying a portfolio of responses for a portfolio of needs – which is typically what any complex human systems intervention like knowledge management needs. Knowledge management is most of the time about juggling a number of interventions in a shifting ecology of needs. There are no simple recipes and there are no single best approaches."
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August 19, 2008 at 3:00 am · Filed under del.icio.us
August 10, 2008 at 2:31 am · Filed under del.icio.us
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the most inaccessible site I've ever seen; menus are graphics, everything is pale. Crap.
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"I think there are times in our lives when we could all benefit from the Armless Tiger Man's philosophy and (whether at school or work or at the Motor Vehicle Bureau) bellow out, "MACHINES! MACHINES! I hate them! I hate them!!" See if you don't feel better."
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