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Full story: The Second Life hype cycle
It seems that you can’t pick up a magazine or newspaper these days without seeing lengthy articles that focus on the negative side of Second Life. The latest comes from Time magazine in a feature last week. Reality is catching up with Second Life, says the magazine in its article entitled Second Life’s Real-World Problems. Like others before it, this article talks about companies who have departed the virtual world for one reason or another, usually referencing disappointment with objectives…
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Full story: The Hobson & Holtz Report – Podcast #266: August 13, 2007
Content summary: Recording with Callburner; Joseph Jaffe’s new marketing experiment; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; newspapers easier to read online: survey; forcing health on employees; UK print media ‘not dead’; Apple introduces widgets; company bloggers can help put out fires; the growth of Twitter (and Facebook) spam; report from Sallie Goetsch; listeners’ comments discussion; news about next Thursday’s show; the music; and more. [Messages from our sponsors: FIR is brought to you with Lawrence Ragan Communications, serving communicators worldwide…
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Full story: The case for DRM
A disturbing but far from surprising trend reported by Reuters: Children in Europe are aware of the risks of illegal downloading, but often rationalize their act by saying that everyone — including their parents — is doing it, according to a major European Commission survey. Other excuses included: the download is for personal and private purposes; the Web sites presumably remunerate the artists; claims of harm inflicted on artists lack credibility; and DVDs and CDs are simply too expensive. Almost…
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Full story: Windows Live Writer is a winner
Having upgraded this site to the latest WordPress version, I’m now able to use Windows Live Writer to write posts offline and then publish. The latest beta version, out since the end of May, wouldn’t work with the pre 2.1 WP version that I was on before the upgrade. So although I’m a bit late to this party, I will say that this is an excellent offline blog editor. I did use the first beta and have a broadly favourable…
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Full story: Reloaded!
With just a little breath-holding and nail-biting, I present NevilleHobson.com in some of its new clothes. A bit dramatic-sounding perhaps, but the upgrade to WordPress version 2.2.2 together with implementing the new theme you see here has gone with only a couple of fixable hitches. (If you’re a subscriber to the RSS feed, do please hop over to the site so you can take a look.) Why change? as a few people have asked me this weekend. A few reasons. A…
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