As an information junkie – but I don’t have the time to read as much as I’d like. Given the time, I’d read news and blogs all day. Why? I love the open internet and being able to view problems from every viewpoint and then distilling things through relevancy filters and finally decide what I [...]
Why is it so surprising that Twitter has decided to take care of their business and protect their interests. All companies do it…quite frankly if they are not going to watch out for it who will? I think of myself as a business owner and its my goal to make money and provide something of [...]
Tom Tague isn’t content to let an article just be an article. “How do I take a chunk of text,” he asked, “and turn it into a chunk of data?” He was speaking Thursday night at a panel discussion hosted by Hacks/Hackers, a San Francisco-based group that bridges the worlds of journalism and engineering. Coinciding [...]
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Saturday was NFL Draft Day on Google Hot Trends with only two other items on anyone’s mind – a Tornado in Yazoo City Mississippi and the Country Music Marathon in Nashville (morning and early afternoon). The top twenty searches shown on Google Hot Trends included the following 18 names most of the morning – Lead [...]
Bloggers have come under fire by major media for “Content Theft” and are often being blamed for destroying traditional media business model of scarcity and exclusivity by liberally using large chunks of the stories from major media news sites, sometimes without attribution. Fair Use is a doctrine defining the concept that is often used as [...]
Sept. 26 (Bloomberg) — Twitter Inc., the social-networking site used by everyone from Oprah Winfrey to British royalty, received venture financing that values the company at about $1 billion, according to a person familiar with the matter. Twitter received $100 million in the deal, according to two people who wanted to remain anonymous because terms [...]
In 2005 I stopped subscribing to dead tree newspapers and said to my friends and family that I thought if I were in the news business, I’d start publishing exclusively online. Everyone snickered and thought that was ridiculous when I brought it up at family gatherings. I discussed it with co-workers and up until the [...]
Small Businesses Disappointed With Contracting Share??U.S. Government Failing to Meet Legal Requirement, Group Says By V. Dion Haynes – Washington Post Staff Writer Monday, August 31, 2009 Officials of small businesses, asserting that the government has repeatedly failed to meet its obligation to set aside work for them, are demanding that the Obama administration dramatically [...]
Get a Business Domain Name for only $9.99 Compare Our Prices .com .net .org .info .biz .us According to this post from Domain Name News, I’m very late to the domain blogging party. It’s been done by many before me. Does that mean I should quit? Naahhhh! I’ll take comfort knowing that I was [...]