Tasteful, and effective, yellow page ads for lawyers. If you're a solo practitioner and want to develop an effective Yellow Page advertisement you should hire Ross Fishman. But not directly. Just hire his company Red Jackal Ads, which specializes in developing tasteful and effective YP ads that can be licensed for exclusive use in your… Continue reading Tasteful, and effective, yellow page ads for lawyers
Author: Vince Kimball
Fedora Core 3: The upgrade from FC2
Fedora Core 3: The upgrade from FC2. I love Fedora Core. I had some problems with Fedora Core 2, which I mostly documented here, but it's still the happy hacking distro for me. When Fedora Core 3 came out, I surprised myself with how little trepidation I had about upgrading. For the most part my… Continue reading Fedora Core 3: The upgrade from FC2
A 10×10 View of the News
A 10×10 View of the News. David Krane from Google points to a killer new site called 10×10 that every hour scans the RSS feeds of several leading international news sources and performs an elaborate process of weighted linguistic analysis on the text contained in their top news stories. The result is a conclusion about… Continue reading A 10×10 View of the News
Dissecting Firefox Marketing
Dissecting Firefox Marketing. Rebecca Leib breaks down the Mozilla team's amazing use of online word of mouth marketing to promote the Firefox browser. The campaign to date has helped generate over a million downloads per day since Firefox emerged out of beta; registered over 25,000 volunteer marketers; encouraged about 100,000 Web sites to display promotional… Continue reading Dissecting Firefox Marketing
Economic downside
Economic downside. James Wolcott on the economic problems intolerance might bring, as well as fallout from the rising anti-Americanism in the wider world. [Ceejbot]
Even Digital Memories Can Fade
NY Times: Even Digital Memories Can Fade. Yet no one has figured out how to preserve these electronic materials for the next decade, much less for the ages. Like junk e-mail, the problem of digital archiving, which seems straightforward, confounds even the experts. [Tomalak's Realm]
Big Dig found riddled with leaks
Big Dig found riddled with leaks. Engineers hired to investigate the cause of September's massive Big Dig tunnel leak have discovered that the project is riddled with hundreds of leaks that are pouring millions of gallons of water into the $14.6 billion tunnel system. [Boston Globe — Front Page]
Meanwhile a MSIE team guy
Meanwhile a MSIE team guy is glad Firefox has gone 1.0. Ever wonder if MS's priorities are somewhat misplaced? Last night I booted up a new server running their 2003 server platform. Up till now I was totally happy with the 2000 version, but this time there was no choice offered. Anyway, their answer to… Continue reading Meanwhile a MSIE team guy
The Problem with Electronic Voting Machines
The Problem with Electronic Voting Machines. Computer security experts are unanimous on what to do. (Some voting experts disagree, but I think we’re all much better off listening to the computer security experts. The problems here are with the computer, not with the fact that the computer is being used in a voting application.) And… Continue reading The Problem with Electronic Voting Machines
Bush Picks Alberto Gonzales to Replace Ashcroft at Justice Dept.
Bush Picks Alberto Gonzales to Replace Ashcroft at Justice Dept.. President Bush said that Alberto R.Gonzales had been “a calm and steady voice in times of crisis” as his White House counsel. By DAVID STOUT. [NYT > Home Page]