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Speaking of NetGens and two-way communications, Memo to Brands: Surrender: “Empowered viewers armed with digital video recorders are zapping through Academy Award speeches, opening credits, and thousands of TV commercials — giggling all the way. And that is only the beginning of the end, says Laurie Coots, chief marketing officer at TBWAChiatDay. Disruptive advertising is… Continue reading Memo to Brands: Surrender

Robots Make the Rounds To Ease Hospitals' Costs. “Whenever a new patient is admitted to the Veterans Affairs Medical Center here, a four-foot eight-inch talking robot rolls up to the nurses' station nearest to the patient's room, bringing doses of whatever drugs the doctor has ordered…. 'When you look at the nursing and pharmacy labor… Continue reading Robots Make the Rounds To Ease Hospitals' Costs

Apache 2.0 Goes Live. The Apache Group Saturday capped three years of development and one year of beta with its release of the first generally available version of Apache 2.0. Key enhancements in Apache 2.0 include the capability to run Apache in a hybrid thread/process mode, support for filtered I/O, IPv6 support, and a new… Continue reading Apache 2.0 Goes Live

New Radio feature:  shortcuts.  I updated Radio by right clicking on the Radio icon in the tray and selecting “update Radio.root”  I then went into prefs and enabled shortcuts.  I then went into the new menu items called “shortcuts” and put some items in.  This is the best way to include stories and major posts in… Continue reading Dave Winer

In response to the news that Oprah will be scaling back her book club, Steven over at Library Stuff has this to say: “Impact on libraries? I think that Oprah turned many ex-readers onto and non-readers back to the printed word. Even though she is not doing her thing anymore, many of her followers will… Continue reading Oprah will be scaling back her book club

I didn’t know about PHPBeginner.com until today. Looks pretty good. [inessential.com]

MyFreePress.com has a great tag line.  “Freedom of the press is only guaranteed to those who own one” [John Robb's Radio Weblog]

I find this weblog intriguing. Centerbeam is a famous company, started by Sheldon Laube, from Novell and US Web. I wonder who the blog is for?   [Scripting News]

Vintage Tourist Poster Stamps “The USPS is issuing these great retro tourist-poster stamps, one for each state, tomorrow (wish they'd do a matching line of luggage-stickers!). The USPS site is down as of this writing, but here's a mirror of the sheet.” [bOing bOing] This is totally cool! I used to collect stamps when I was… Continue reading Vintage Tourist Poster Stamps

Managing Einsteins:Leading High-Tech Workers in the Digital Age “In many workplaces, especially high-tech ones, managers and those they manage are operating on parallel tracks, with different sets of motivations, expectations and rewards. How to keep tech workers happy, given that they likely don't want the same things as their bosses, and certainly would choose different… Continue reading Managing Einsteins:Leading High-Tech Workers in the Digital Age