Barack Obama and the Permanence of Paper
Wednesday, 11/5/08 | 7 Comments

Business Week’s David Kiley says “Obama is great for newspapers” and describes his search for a newspaper this morning, only to find there were none available at the many locations he looked.
Mr. Kiley wraps his …

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links for 2007-05-04
Thursday, May 3, 2007 | No Comment

Map of Online Communities
(tags: socialmedia social)

Let’s Talk Computers - PC Magazine Office 2007 Solutions
Radio interview with author Joli Ballew.
(tags: office radio interview books)

The difference between Social and Media
(tags: socialmedia)

How Guy Kawasaki became Technorati’s #24 …

Professional XNA Game Programming - Updated Code Posted
Thursday, May 3, 2007 | No Comment

Yesterday I received updated code from Ben for Professional XNA Game Programming, and it is now live on the book’s page at wrox.com.  This new code replaces all of the code previously available on the …

The Digg Disaster - What Did We Learn?
Thursday, May 3, 2007 | No Comment

(This post has been updated below)
I’m going to take an unpopular stance on the Digg fiasco - Digg moderators were right to take down the HD-DVD hex code. Why?

The posting of the code was …

links for 2007-05-03
Wednesday, May 2, 2007 | No Comment

Geek Squad speech at the London Marketing Society - Google Video
(tags: geeksquad marketing)

The New Digg Effect - What This Means For Social Media
(tags: digg socialmedia)

Head of MPAA Calls for DRM That Allows for “Managed Copying”
(tags: …

Suggested Reading
Tuesday, May 1, 2007 | No Comment

it’s multimedia, jim, but not as we know it
(tags: Books Publishing)

Amazon, Web 2.0, and Missing The Point of Community
(tags: Amazon Web2.0)

Branding v. Edgework
(tags: Marketing)

OLPC tech guru on ‘$100 laptop’ as p-book replacement with high-res screen
(tags: …

Forrester’s Take on Social Media Activity
Tuesday, May 1, 2007 | No Comment

Over on the FASTForward Blog, Joe McKendrick has posted some brief thoughts on a new report from Forrester on Social participation on the web. Based on a survey of nearly 10,000 adults and …