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Asia: India’s summer heat comes with a rash of student suicides: “‘The inhumane stress put on children by the parents and teachers is the cause of the this social evil — suicide,’ state Education...
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US: From the NYT: The bills to provide drug benefits through Medicare that were passed by the House and the Senate last week offer some of the country’s largest employers a long-sought prize: shifting...
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Europe: From the NYT, Germans want their good life back after their struggle to integrate the East No less a person that the minister for labor and economics, Wolfgang Clement, seemed to be suggesting...
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Tech: BW Online | June 21, 2004 | Online Extra: Q&A With MIT’s Nicholas Negroponte: “Peer-to-peer is key. I mean that in every form conceivable: cell phones without towers, sharing leftover food,...
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Tech: Yahoo! News — Studios Cut to the Chase: “Hollywood sees Germany as a crucial battleground in its assault on piracy. Industry officials say the country is the Internet piracy capital of Western...
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USA: The Village Voice gives the RNC a great big welcome with a top 10 list of all the ways W screwed New York City: Will any convention speaker dare mention the name of Osama bin Laden? What ever...
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Isolated Americans are trying to connect
This article first appeared on my old blog at http://www.bloglines.com/blog/wsodeman?id=39 http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060805/ap_on_re_us/lonely_nation “People are increasingly busy,” said Margaret...
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Arizona woman gets 70 speeding tickets in 5 months
This article first appeared on my old blog at http://www.bloglines.com/blog/wsodeman?id=42 http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060811/us_nm/speeding_dc “I don’t want to get off on a rant here…“ Dennis Miller,...
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What is RSS?
I really enjoyed class this weekend with the MBAs! I did get a few questions about why we’re using Bloglines, and what’s it all about, anyway? As I mentioned in class, I’d like you to try some push...
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ESPN sacked, Helio scrambling
ESPN announced yesterday that it was shutting down its mobile virtual network, Mobile ESPN, at the end of 2006. See these articles in Forbes and Gearlog for details. I was wondering if anyone was...
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The top 10 most dangerous online activities
This post first appeared on my old log at http://www.bloglines.com/blog/wsodeman?id=219 http://www.forbes.com/entrepreneurs/2006/10/25/microsoft-mozilla-malware-ent-tech-cx_sb_1025smallbizresource.html...
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Web 2.0 and the Virginia Tech massacre
Facebook and other social networking sites are getting more attention as the media examines how Virginia Tech implemented its crisis communication plan yesterday. The New York Times interviewed to...
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2-channel: Japan’s biggest Internet forum
Lisa Katayama of Wired reported today on 2-channel, Japan’s largest Internet forum. It’s like Howard Rheingold’s smart mobs, but much better organized. Now I want to see the movie Train Man.
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MySpace comes to China
The New York Times reports that News Corporation is bringing MySpace to China as a start-up venture. The venture will be headed by Luo Chuan, who managed MSN’s China portal. MySpace China hopes to...
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Facebook opens up
According to Wired, Facebook now allows third-party developers to write small applications that users may embed in their profiles. This is a necessary addition to Facebook’s business model, especially...
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Illinois high school holds diplomas after crowd celebrates
An Illinois high school withheld diplomas from 5 graduating seniors after audience members celebrated too loudly. The punishment seems heavy handed, but administrators had decided that disruptions,...
View ArticleWhat I’ve been reading
One of the nice things about this summer is that I’ve had more time to read. Here’s a sample: When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth by Cory Doctorow. In this short story, a sysad faces the ultimate outage....
View ArticleFacebook vs MySpace
I’ve got accounts on Facebook and MySpace. Today, CenterNetworks asked bloggers and readers to discuss which service they prefer. Frankly, I hate MySpace. I hate how the media players will autostart a...
View ArticleCXOs face malware email attacks
ZDNet reports that several hundred CXOs are receiving a new kind of email attack. Messages containin Word documents that include an executable file. If the recipient clicks on the file, it runs a...
View ArticleForty-somethings flock to Facebook
In a Business Week article earlier this week, Aaron Ricadela examined Facebook’s growing popularity with adults. Social networking is a business tool Facebook was started at Harvard, and remains...
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