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Full story: An abrupt ending for Blognation
This is what you now see if you go to any of the websites of Blognation, the blog network that’s been embroiled in scandal and controversy for the past few weeks. It’s too bad. If there’s one thing that disgraced entrepreneur Sam Sethi did, it was pull together a great team of talented writers in a network that had 13 localized sites around the world. Such a waste. Related post: Troubling times for Blognation coming to a head
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Full story: Cuts from FIR #302
Overflow from today’s FIR #302: 1-Minute News Bloggers cause Wal*Mart to remove a product Recession lessons for PR practitioners Download FIR Cuts MP3s – WalMart (3:31) | Recession (4:41). If you want to automatically receive FIR Cuts as they’re published, subscribe to the RSS feed. (What are FIR Cuts?)
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Full story: The Hobson & Holtz Report – Podcast #302: December 17, 2007
Content summary: Discussion: the social media experiment; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; digital footprint study from Pew; you own dot-org but what about dot-com?; social networks deliver product recommendations; BBC readies new user-customizable website; Lee Hopkins reports on Second Life now that the goldrush is over, the Australian Federal Police and paedophiles, and on why he disagrees with Chip Griffin; listeners’ comments discussion; new version of Audacity released; FIR editions over Christmas and New Year; music from Bernie Goldbach:…
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Full story: Maybe size doesn’t matter after all
On the face of it, it would be hard to imagine a car with an overall length of just 106 inches (that’s less than nine feet), and with an engine capacity of just one litre (a little over 61 cubic inches), selling in the USA. I mean, the USA is the natural home of the gas guzzler and the SUV, isn’t it? Americans like big cars and trucks, not tiny little runabouts, don’t they? Plus with petrol at the amazing…
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Full story: Installing Windows Vista SP1 release candidate
A couple of days ago, I installed Windows Vista Service Pack 1 Release Candidate 1 on my desktop PC, a two-year-old Dell XPS Gen 5 that’s running Windows Vista Ultimate. Vista SP1 addresses some specific reliability, performance, and compatibility issues and adds support for new hardware and some emerging standards. More details in Microsoft’s Vista SP1 RC1 white paper; there’s an overview in the tech note. There’s been plenty of commentary about SP1 in recent months, and I think some…
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