Daily Archives: Tuesday, July 11, 2006

Wired back together

Wired back together: Wired, the dot-com and Wired, the magazine, are reunited thanks to $25 million from Conde Nast. Other than hard-core geeks and hard-core magazine wonks, I doubt more than ten residents of the real-world knew they were owned … Continue reading

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What I learn from Mr. Roboto

What I learn from Mr. Roboto: Gee. If I didn’t have the RSS feed from Nashville blogger Mr. Roboto, I wouldn’t know that Nicole Kidman purchases her household cleaning products from the same Target I purchase mine. Technorati Tags: nashville … Continue reading

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Dell’s blog attempts to reduce bloggers’ karmic power

Dell’s blog attempts to reduce bloggers’ karmic power: They followed Robert Scobel’s advice. (Explanation.) Robert responds: “I think we should institute a two-week moratorium against saying anything bad about a new corporate blog.” And, in Dvorakian style, Nick Carr (who … Continue reading

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Trick question

Trick question: Dylan at FishBowlNY thinks my earlier Rocketboom quiz (Which is better? A. Floundering in the spotlight B. Being brilliant in obscurity) is a trick question. He’s right. As for the message that’s now on the front of Rocketboom, … Continue reading

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Second quote of the day

Second quote of the day: “Assigned seating is to Southwest what “New Coke” was to Coca-Cola.” (Roger Abramsom’s take on the test SWA is running for eight-weeks on selected flights out of San Deigo to see whether assigning seats will … Continue reading

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