Posted by: kegill on: 25 July 2008
Notes on workshop for Seattle PI Interns.
Posted by: kegill on: 24 July 2008
Have you received a fax advertising a “Florida Bahama’s Cruise” for $398 pp? If so, read on.
Under federal law (Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991, 47 U.S. Code 227), it is illegal to send unsolicited commercial faxes. The definition, in my opinion, is broad enough to include junk email (AKA “spam”), but IANAL and that’s [...]
Posted by: kegill on: 21 July 2008
VideoNuze tells us that Google is planning to provide ad-supported “high-quality video” (from Fox’s “Family Guy” creator Seth MacFarlane) to affiliated websites. For free. The websites help distribute the content (a long tail distribution model). Google, MacFarlane and the website proprietor split the revenue.
Lest you think only big guys can play, consider Jambo Media — [...]
Posted by: kegill on: 21 July 2008
Lorne Michaels, the man behind the 1970s phenomena Saturday Night Live, plans to take NBC’s “Late Night” to the web this fall. According to the Los Angeles Times, Michaels wants new host Jimmy Fallon “to work out as many of the rough spots in his presentation as possible in performances on a website” before [...]
Posted by: kegill on: 17 July 2008
Act 3 debuts on Friday. The whole thing goes away, well the streaming version, anyway, on Saturday. Then it will be iTunes and DVD-only. Watch it now! Learn more at the official fan site.
Is this the new business model for online video?
Facebook; MySpace; Twitter.
Posted by: kegill on: 14 July 2008
PenguinGroup tells us that Don Tapscott has updated Wikinomics (”expanded” edition, not “second” edition) with “a new introduction and a new chapter.” Great. But for those of us who bought the original book, why not make these two chapters available as a PDF for free or for a nominal fee?
I wandered over to [...]
Posted by: kegill on: 14 July 2008
Rep. John Culberson (R-TX) uses Twitter to communicate with constituents (and other folks). But according to TechDirt, he has been using that potent networking tool to “ignite a totally misguided partisan war, pretending (falsely) that Democrats are trying to prevent him from using Twitter.”
Posted by: kegill on: 13 July 2008
ArsTechnica reports that NASA’s JPL scientists have identified optimal wind farm locations by analyzing eight years of global satellite data. And I missed this announcement: oil baron T. Boone Pickens (personal networth: $2.7bn) is investing $12 billion in a wind farm in west Texas. True to Texas mythology, it will be the largest in the [...]
Posted by: kegill on: 11 July 2008