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Wal-Mart and other discounters: Cultural oligopsony?
In a recent New York Times article
Wal-Mart and other discounters: Cultural oligopsony? In a recent New York Times article (“Shaping Cultural Tastes at Big Retail Chains,” May 16, 2003), reporter David Kirkpatrick reveals the surprising power in books, music, and DVDs held by a few national discount retailers. The biggest player is Wal-Mart, but stores like Target, and K-Mart, along with… Continue reading
Wal-Mart and other discounters: Cultural oligopsony?
In a recent New York Times article
Healer Bishops Are Sent to Ease Churches' Pain. There is now a small company of at least eight American bishops who have been called on by the pope to rush into troubled dioceses and help extinguish the flames. By Laurie Goodstein. [New York Times: NYT HomePage]
When the Sky Stays Gloomy, the Gloomiest Go Shopping. Steady rains and one of the coldest springs in decades have many Americans indoors, replenishing their wardrobes and their linen closets, retailers and shoppers say. By Ruth La Ferla. [New York Times: NYT HomePage]
Happy Birthday, Dear DNS. Twenty years ago, a group of USC computer scientists automated the domain name system, a key innovation essential to making the modern Internet work. The next step is helping the technology continue to mature. By Kari L. Dean. [Wired News]
$100 Million Donation Helps to Establish a Genome Institute. Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology will establish an institute intended to apply knowledge of the human genome to the practice of medicine. By Andrew Pollack. [New York Times: Technology]
Practical IT Portfolio Management. My favorite approach to technology planning, with a link to a good primer on the subject. [DennisKennedy.blog]
Who gets what. iTunes: Death of Record Companies. Check out this short Business 2.0 piece showing how each dollar collected per song is divided up. Artists get 12 cents out of a dollar. The music download service (i.e. Apple) gets 40 cents. That leaves 48 cents up for grab as music download industry emerges, expands, and… Continue reading Who gets what
Chris Collison: Making KM Practical. Chris Collison, Centrica A key to successful KM is leadership behaviours. These will determine whether organisational culture can change and whether it can be sustained without the centre. Chris' wife is a school teacher working in a primary school which has adapted accelerated learning techniques. This involves a morning “brain gym”… Continue reading Chris Collison: Making KM Practical
Jon Thorne: Resourcing your knowledge intiative. Jon's session was very hands-on, group activity based so I don't really have notes. This will be from memory. Jon's thesis is that it is much easier to get a KM initiative funded if you focus on the benefits of your work rather than the approaches used or the… Continue reading Jon Thorne: Resourcing your knowledge intiative
AIfIA Job Board. Looking for a job? The Asilomar Institute for Information Architecture will soon be announcing the launch of its new Job Board. Here's a description: The AIfIA Job Board serves as a clearinghouse for position postings relating to information architecture and more broadly to information design, interaction design, and HCI. The Job Board… Continue reading AIfIA Job Board