Monday, April 17, 2006

I've Been Missing

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I've been MIA. My excuse is the combination of a very disruptive and energy-consuming (and checkbook-draining) house reconstruction proj...
Tuesday, January 31, 2006

The Micromarkets of the Internet

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I suppose I should find the consequences of network effects so commonplace by now that they're hardly with a certain notice, much les th...
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Thursday, January 12, 2006

Slashdot Going Out of Style?

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Jeremy Zawodny asks if Slashdot is going out of style? [via Eric Boutilier ] Speaking for myself, that seems a reasonable projection. I sti...
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Wednesday, January 11, 2006

Blockbuster Sinking

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I'm usually suspicious of claims that the "old" way of doing things is dead because the latest favorite trend or company or bu...
Friday, January 06, 2006

RSS Data

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via David Berlind Related : 31 percent of US Internet users use RSS, and most of them do so through My Yahoo. Also related but contradicting...
Thursday, January 05, 2006

Wikipedia Experiments

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I've written about Wikipedia in the past, most recently here . But I've stayed away from the most recent flaps for a variety of reas...

More on Bestselling CD's

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In this earlier post , I noted that Chris Anderson had some interesting data which seemed to indicate the decline in CD bestsellers was eve...
Tuesday, January 03, 2006

Massport Continues to Fight For a WiFi Monopoly

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As reported in yesterday's Boston Gobe , Logan International Airport officials' [Logan is operated by Massport] ongoing quest to ban...

The Dying CD Bestseller?

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As Ashlee Vance of The Register notes here : "2005 marked a banner year for quashing CD piracy in the courts and on the internet. You...

This Week's Memo to Product Designers

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Just because you can do something doesn't make it a good idea. Case study #1: I received one of these travel alarm clocks as a gift. It...
Monday, December 19, 2005

The State of Digital Cameras

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Most of the photos I shoot these days are digital (using a Canon Powershot G5 ). The immediacy of digital and the ease with which I can pho...
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Wednesday, November 02, 2005

Another Web 2.0 Definition

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I don't really care for the "Web 2.0" nomenclature—although I suppose that most alternative neologisms (such as Read-Write Web...
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Wednesday, October 19, 2005

Wikipedia mea culpa

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I've picked at Wikipedia quality issues a few times of late, such as in this post . Andrew Orlowski has a nice piece in The Register on...
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Tuesday, October 18, 2005

Interruptions

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"Continuous Partial Attention," the state of constant interruption that characterizes many of our lives get written about a fair b...
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Good questions about Video iPods

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I'm always a bit hesitant to comment on the usage models underpinning a lot of electronic gadgets when it's pretty clear that I'...
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Thursday, September 29, 2005

The Post-Modern Equivalent of Brass Candlesticks

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In this day and age, not many folks still have brass candlesticks to polish. But we apparently have a replacement activity: Apple nano polis...
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Amen

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The highlight of an interview with Jeff Jones of IBM Analyst Relations : What are things you would change? I would rewrite PowerPoint to all...
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Knowing Cultural Context

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Tokyo-based blogger Sean Kinsell eviscerates this WaPost story purporting to find a new girlyness among Japanese men. For a primer on how...
Friday, September 23, 2005

Opting In and Opting Out

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We're starting to hear the "Opt Out" defense a lot in some recent copyright cases, first with the Internet Library (which I di...
Tuesday, September 20, 2005

More Wikipedia Weakness

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It's often tempting to give Wikipedia a pass. After all, many of its most egregious errors get fixed over time--at least if the topic is...
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Monday, September 19, 2005

DVD Wars

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I'm not an expert on this stuff, but this writeup from Engadget seems to do a nice job of cutting to the basics of the Blu-ray vs, HD D...
Friday, September 16, 2005

Disk To Flash

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Yes, it's been a while since I've posted. My bad. Lots of travel in various permutations of business and pleasure and the organizati...
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Thursday, August 18, 2005

Scheduling Problems

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Fellow analyst Stephen O'Grady asks " Why is Scheduling Still So Damn Hard? " Think about how you schedule meetings with folks...

Losing Money on Volume

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A few weeks ago I suggested that at least relative to the Harry Potter books of the world, there's a bit less discounting competition o...
Wednesday, August 17, 2005

Code From Books

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Dan Bricklin's latest Software Licensing podcast is with Tim O'Reilly , founder and CEO of O'Reilly media. A chunk of it deals w...