Daily Archives: Thursday, June 15, 2006

Bill Trippe comes not to praise Google’s Shakespeare project

Bill Trippe comes not to praise Google’s Shakespeare project: I may have praised it, but Bill displays how shoddy the project is (especially the poor quality of the book-scanning work). He also points to better examples by others. “Lots of … Continue reading

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Perception vs. Reality

Perception vs. Reality: In a Tennessean story about why the readership of the bi-weekly magazine with the misnomer, Country Weekly, has fallen to 450,000 from 700,000, comes the following stellar reporting: “Several factors appear to be changing the business environment … Continue reading

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Perception vs. Reality

nashville <p><strong>Perception vs. Reality:</strong> In a <a href=”http://www.tennessean.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060615/BUSINESS01/606150377/-1/RSS05″>Tennessean story</a> about why the readership of the bi-weekly magazine with the misnomer name, Country Weekly, has fallen to 450,000 from 700,000, comes the following stellar reporting:</p> <blockquote><em><p>”Several factors appear to be changing … Continue reading

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Coincidence?

Coincidence? First, Robert Scoble leaves and now this! (For the humor-challenged, I don’t actually believe these two events have anything to do with one-another.)

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Stranger than fiction

Stranger than fiction: (From AdWeek.com) “NEW YORK WPP Group said it bought word-of-mouth marketing firm M80, a continuation of the holding company’s efforts to diversify into new channels.” Yesterday, in a comment on this post, Hudge did an amazing job … Continue reading

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More search and knock-off news

More search and knock-off news: As I seem to be developing a theme for today, here’s another item about search engines and “knock-offs.” Google has launched a “U.S. Government Search” page at the URL, http://www.google.com/ig/usgov, which is, in effect, a … Continue reading

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New search interfaces

New search interfaces: A couple new search “interfaces” hit my in-box this morning. In this case, “interface” means the search tool is (metaphorically, speaking) a skin or veneer sitting on top of other search engines. The interface is intended to … Continue reading

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Anchors away?

Anchors away? It’s sometimes a good thing to not be “anchored” by success. That way, you can throw everything out and start all over again. Netscape (the URL owned by AOL) is knocking off Digg which knocked off /. which…(I … Continue reading

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