Year: 2006
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Cabinet minister blogger promoted in reshuffle
Local elections took place in the UK yesterday and the governing Labour Party hasn’t done well at all. One consequence – the biggest Cabinet reshuffle in over a decade. The BBC website is a good place to go for detailed…
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Plagiarism costs Raytheon CEO dearly
Some months ago, I ordered a copy of “Swanson’s Unwritten Rules of Management,” a free book by William Swanson, the CEO of US military contractor Raytheon Company, from the company’s website. It hasn’t arrived yet and it now looks as…
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Six Apart outage caused by stupidity
If you have a TypePad blog, you will definitely know about the denial of service attack on Six Apart‘s servers earlier this week, when access to TypePad blogs (as well as other Six Apart services such as LiveJournal) was down…
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The Hobson & Holtz Report – Podcast #134: May 4, 2006
Content summary: Show numbering; FIR Listener Survey results posted; Summit on the Future conference; FIR meetup at the IABC Vancouver conference; Kami Huyse podcasts the first 100 Geek Dinners; BL Ochman’s new ethics blog; LA Times suspends journalist for violating…
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The shift in trust
The BBC and Reuters published Trust in The Media (PDF) today: A major 10-nation public opinion poll exploring Trust in the Media has found that even though the media is more trusted than the national government in half the countries…