Sarah Lacy makes a lot of sense in this column about PR pitches, and the all too common mistakes that PR people make - even on simple crap, like getting names and locations right. I know why she's writing this, too - I get a fair number of email pitches, and I'm laboring away in a tiny niche of the technology space - who knows how many lame pitches come her way? …
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Useless PR - Ignored
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Gaming Ads
http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/blog/blogView?showComments=true&printTitle=Gaming_Ads&entry=3401425047This is interesting - campaign ads in online games: "I can confirm that the Obama campaign has paid for in-game advertising in Burnout," Holly Rockwood, director of corporate communications at Electronic Arts, the game's publisher, told me via email, noting that EA regularly allows ad placements in their online games. …
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Insane Penalties
http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/blog/blogView?showComments=true&printTitle=Insane_Penalties&entry=3401432442Now that the PRO-IP act has passed, it looks like the really big sticks will come out to beat casual infringers. The even bigger problem is what the RIAA and MPAA call "infringement". Say I plan a long trip, and - rather than carry a stack of DVDs with me, I decide to rip those DVDs so I can watch them directly on my laptop. …
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Algorithms for the masses - julian m bucknall
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Eye on Winer
http://eyeonwiner.orgin friendfeed so that all my followers could see it. I also retweeted it. I think I’ll do a video on how to get rid of Robert Scoble out of your view. It’s actually not that hard thanks to the “block” feature in friendfeed. As James Robertson points out, there’s already a way to “segment the Twittersphere,” and it’s called the Remove button.
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A Chaotic Flow of Open Source Ideas
http://news-open-source.comOpen Source and Shrink Wrap
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Multi Core Programming
http://patricklogan.blogspot.com/2008/12/multi-core-programm...func may very well be video recorded. Too bad this was not... people with various levels of experience with compiler internals each expressed satisfaction. Michael Lucas-Smith was at pdxfunc and arranged for an Industry Misinterpretations podcast with Jim. James Robertson has that up on his blog now. (Aside: MLS is a whirlwind of facts on sci-fi, astro-physics, and other brainy (literally) topics... if you ever have a chance to sit down with him at a pub.) One of the interesting highlights of the discussion during Jim's presentation was a brief
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Tekkie
http://tekkie.wordpress.comSmalltalk Tidbits, Industry Rants (Cincom)
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Gerrymandering the Internet, Continued
http://hakpaksak.wordpress.com/2008/12/17/gerrymandering-the...Posted by Stephen Lewis on December 17, 2008 Further to my last post, Doc Searls expands on the fragmentation of the web in Splinternet. In World-Wide Regions, James Robertson relates the absurdities of geographic coding of DVDs. As an additional absurdity, I quote below the text of a webpage that popped up when I tried to log-on to the music service Pandora from my desk in Sofia, Bulgaria: Dear
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Lamneth
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Open Source the iPhone?
http://rob.crabapples.net/2008/12/open-source-iphone.htmChris Petrilli [via James Robertson]: "It seems everyone has advice for Apple. Hell bent to resurrect them from that horrible abyss of having billions of dollars in the bank and making money almost as fast as it can be printed. Today, it’s five reasons why Apple should open source the
