It’s out and you can get it here. Words to the wise: There are some issues with Image Handling which have not been resolved. These issues appear to be related to server setup, and not the actual code, but sites where images handling worked on 2.6.5 may find that it is broken in 2.7 – like this site. (Update: yes, image thumbnailing is working for me now – it appears it’s finicky on large size images and doens’t like some…
(The names have been changed to protect the innocent.) Over the past couple months an enterprise software vendor has been running a series of blind focus groups designed to ascertain what the market view of their products really is. They’ve gone the full monty on it, with one way glass mirrors, professional moderators, and have worked with a truly representative cross section of consumers, not just their own customers. Prior to the focus group, this company considered themselves top in…
Paul Gillin posted on a topic that I’ve been mulling over for the past few days: Branded Communities. I’ve said it in the past and I will say it again here and now: why would you buy a build a branded community when you can rent one instead? From Gillin’s post: Pssst… is intended to bring fans of General Mills products closer to the company by inviting them into a members-only space where they can receive inside information, get coupons…
Newspaper insiders for the most part weren’t all that surprised to see the Tribune Company file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection yesterday. The Trib has been in trouble for some time, and it hasn’t been helped by high profile fights of the past two years by owner Sam Zell, who purchased the company in April of 2007, which saw him take the company private. Since then his fights with the leadership of the Los Angeles Times have achieved near…
The idea: to run a live Tweet stream from the varied events of the Sutton, Ma Chain of Lights, a celebration that happens at many different locations thoughout the town and its villages. I used my Iphone with the Twitterlator Application that lets me post pictures direct to Twitter with pictures that I take on my phone uploaded right at that moment. The tweets all contain the hashtag #suttoncol – short for Sutton Chain of Lights which make them searchable…
I’ll be live tweeting today from the various events of the Sutton Chain of Lights celebration, in Sutton, Massachusetts. You can find my tweets at http://www.twitter.com/mncahill or by searching in Twitter for the #suttoncol hash tag. My tweets throughout the day will include pictures of the event via my Iphone, and later today I’ll up load a photo gallery of the pictures. If your out and about in Sutton, I encourage you to tweet using the same hashtag and…
Layoffs at Random House, Simon & Schuster Random House, etc. layoff…Yahoo is attributing it to the economy, but I wonder how much is do to people not reading in paper as much. The economy has crashed down on an industry once believed immune from the worst — book publishing — with consolidation at Random House Inc., and layoffs at Simon & Schusterand Thomas Nelson Publishers. At Random House, the country’s largest general trade publisher, the man who helped give the world “The Da Vinci…
There’s nothing like the Christmas season in a traditional New England community, and that is exactly why you should try to get to Sutton this weekend for the Chain of Lights Celebration. The celebration runs from 10am to 5pm (although some of the churches end a little early for Saturday Mass) followed by a tree lighting and caroling on the common at 5:30 and a roast beef dinner at the Congregational Church next door from 5pm until 7pm. You…
David Churbuck has found that which we are losing in this digital age. It reminds me of the discussion I had with my 9 year old yesterday when she asked me if I’d read every book in my library. I like the Kindle. Indeed I love it. But I can’t indulge my penchant for giving away books thanks to this selfish device. I can tell people to read “Moneyball” but I can’t back that up by emphasizing my desire…
No time to write today, but I picked this none-to-delectible tidbit up from Alan D. Mutter at Newsosaur while surfing during lunch and had to share: In one of the most startling of the potential initiatives, an amazing number of publishers of all sizes are giving serious consideration to eliminating print editions on certain days of the week, according to private conversations with operators who requested anonymity. Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday editions, which typically carry the least amount of advertising, appear…