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Newspaper Deathwatch: OC Register Tests Outsourcing Editing to India

Newspaper Deathwatch: OC Register Tests Outsourcing Editing to India

When Reuters did this 6 years ago, we all laughed at them. “Want curry with that?” Now respected American daily The Orange County Register has begun a test using a New Delhi firm for editing tasks. From BusinessWeek: Orange County Register Communications Inc. will begin a one-month trial with Mindworks Global Media at the end of June, said John Fabris, a deputy editor at the Register. Mindworks’ Web site says the company is based outside New Delhi and provides “high-quality…

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The Shine is off Social Networking

The Shine is off Social Networking

Say it ain’t so, Joe! Over the past few weeks, it’s begun to look like Social Networking, the current darling of the conference and consultant set, might have jumped the shark.  I personally would peg the exact point where it went careening off track as the day that Waste Management (the guys that probably run your local honey truck) opened their own social networking site. But it goes far beyond that.  Earlier this week Om Malik wrote a very interesting…

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A week of Iphone trouble and general nuisances

A week of Iphone trouble and general nuisances

After careful consideration, I have decided my Iphone is not a smartphone, as much as it is actually an idiot savant phone.  While it does somethings incredibly well, there are others it does marginally, and some it flat out doesn’t do at all. It looks like the release next month of the 3g Iphone will not completely resolve my meager list of needs for the Iphone, so I’d say this is probably really the beta release, whereas v1Iphone would be…

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Techcrunch Says WordPress a Massive Security Risk

Techcrunch Says WordPress a Massive Security Risk

(The link to the article is lower in this post, to ensure the proper text appears in the Techcrunch trackback…) Techcrunch yesterday featured an article by Nik Cubrilovic with the salacious title “WordPress Security Issues Lead To Mass Hacking. Is Your Blog Next?”  – from that article: Due to its popularity as a blogging platform, WordPress has become a prime target for hackers looking to take over blogs for search-engine optimization (SEO) of other sites they control, traffic-redirection and other…

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Louderback on TWIT – a must hear Podcast

Louderback on TWIT – a must hear Podcast

Over Memorial Day weekend Revision3, the online video cast site suffered a DDOS (distributed denial of service) attack at the hands of Media Defender, who is a contract Digital Rights enforcer for the media industry. With Leo Laporte and crew this week, Louderback discusses what happened and in doing so gives both an excellent, non-technical explanation of how DDOS works, as well as providing the clearest view into both the digital rights argument and the new media vs. old media…

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A few random thoughts…

A few random thoughts…

Sorry for the lack of posts. More one what’s been up really soon. A few random thoughts: Services like Twitter and Plurk on the Iphone are like crack for Geeks. I’ve learned more about scalability in web apps in the past 2 weeks than you can imagine. Somehow we’ve managed to create a whole new class of internet celebrities. Have I ever mentioned how I hate the celebrity factor… Check out the Lenovo Olympics site – Stevie Glas did an…

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Revisiting the Implied Responsibility of Comms Providers

Revisiting the Implied Responsibility of Comms Providers

Regarding my post yesterday about the Implied Responsibility of Comms Providers, two things happened over night that bear mentioning. Twitter again was down for a couple hours starting at 4pm EDT, or so. Users were a lot less charitable in their comments. I really think they’re at stage 2 in the matrix I provided, but I’ve seen the first signs that they’re moving from step 2 to step 3, which is a very bad thing for Twitter. Jeremiah Owyang tweeted…

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The Implied Responsibility of Communications Providers

The Implied Responsibility of Communications Providers

Okay, I promise to go Twitter free next week, but for now, an interesting observation… Yesterday, Twitter went down for about 3 hours. The general experience provoked a few thoughts. Firstly, I thought of the Twitter addicted, jonesing at their keyboards, hitting refresh endlessly in a forlorn hope the service will return. But then I thought more on the idea of what happens when your communication means becomes a part of peoples lives.  I’ve been here before, since the Reel-Time.com…

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Social Media – Shark Jumping?

Social Media – Shark Jumping?

One of the outcomes of my testing of Twitter lately is that I’ve come to question whether or not Social Media has jumped the shark (props t David Churbuck who tweeted on social media jumping the shark this morning – I initially left the attribution out to save the fall out, but since he linked, no need to save him…) What I am finding is that most of the people I am finding in my general circle on Twitter are…

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The Right Medium for the Message

The Right Medium for the Message

Having used Twitter for a few weeks now I’ve come to the realization that it’s a viable communications means. It’s just that I’d never realized the appropriate messages to fit in that medium, which are short comments or conversations. I think of it as yelling over the cubicle wall at the folks around me. It’s good for a short blast, but any substantial conversation needs to move to a more appropriate communication means, be that a blog, an email, IM,…

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