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Full story: 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 though I won’t ever be getting a copy. News today via the New York Times that Mr Swanson plagiarised much of the content of his book from another author’s work published in the 1940s. The NYT says his action has…
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Full story: 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 for some considerable time. Denial of service attacks tend to conjure up images of nefarious characters in Eastern Europe or some Far Eastern country trying to bring down a symbol of American commerce. Or some expert hacker just proving he…
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Full story: 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 ethics guidelines; Online Journalism Review asks can newspapers do blogs right; blogger pseudonyms and anonymity; Creative Commons legal guide for podcasters; David Phillips reports; listeners’ comments discussion; FIR Frappr community update; upcoming FIR interviews; the music, and more. Show notes…
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Full story: 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 surveyed, significant numbers of people are switching news sources because they do not trust the information they receive. Fully 28 percent of the people polled report abandoning a news source in the past year because of lack of trust in…
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Full story: Cool new features in Skype beta
Skype launched a new beta (version 2.5.0.72) today of its software for Windows that has some pretty neat new features. Bill Campbell lists them all. The one I’ve set up straightaway is being able to send SMS messages from Skype to mobile phones which your friends or colleagues can then respond to – and you receive their messages on your mobile phone, not in Skype. Setup is a simple procedure involving getting a verification code for your mobile phone from Skype…
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