Does SXSW Hate Microsoft?
I remember in the early days of the Web it wasn’t uncommon for a site to tell you that you could only view the site in a particular browser, or that if you didn’t have a specific resolution you might not see everything. Eventually, web designers figured out that ...
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Ball State to Pump $17 Million into New Media
Ball State University, a member of the Indiana state university system, is further differentiating itself from its better-known siblings IU - Bloomington and Purdue by pouring money into new media:
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An End to the Hiatus
It’s been a long while since I posted here, and I apologize to those readers who noticed. It’s been an interesting time in the last few months, including the sale of a major community website and taking on some new responsibilities in the post-sale environment. I have been ...
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Partnership Pitfalls and Avoiding Murder
While flipping channels, I ran across an episode of City Confidential, a show that takes viewers on a trip to an American city while recounting a murder there. This particular episode involved two business partners - one was convicted of killing the other. The murder victim was apparently ...
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Steampunk Chic
Tired of high tech designs that look hopelessly dated in just a few years? Longing for a more Victorian sensibility? You may need to get up to speed with steampunk, a design movement whose participants hack new tech devices (and more) into steam-era exteriors. The photo is ...
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10 Things To Do While Rebooting
How frustrated are you when you have to reboot your PC in the middle of the day? A full shutdown and reboot cycle can take a several minutes - instead of staring at your screen watching the icons flicker to life, the hourglass grind away, etc., why ...
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Dead Bees Are New Cell Phone PR Problem
Entomologists have been buzzing about a strange decline in bee populations around the world. The phenomenon, known as Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD), is characterized by older bees dying prematurely and leaving the colony unable to sustain itself. A study at Landau University in Germany proposes that cell phone ...
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HP Pretexting - a PR Fiasco
HP didn’t just shoot itself in the foot, it blew its whole leg off. In what will surely go down in business history as one of the more bizarre exercises of corporate paranoia, Hewlett-Packard is in the midst of a public relations disaster after engaging in unethical and perhaps ...
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Monetizing the Parking Lot
It may not be high tech, but you’ve got to love the marketing chutzpah of Parking Stripe Advertising. Just in case you thought all of the areas exploitable for ads had been claimed, this firm will convert those boring white lines in your parking lot into a dynamic advertising ...
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Steve Jobs vs. Ross Perot Revisited
In an earlier post, I speculated that Steve Jobs joining the Disney board of directors had a few parallels to Ross Perot’s time at General Motors. Both joined the board of a much larger firm as big shareholders following the acquisition of their company. Both have a strong ...
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