A novel idea that has had its day
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Charity singles have become the standard route for successful rock stars to give something back, neatly discharging their obligations and coming across as good eggs in the bargain.
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This story can make you money -- if it's true.
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But it's not as simple as point-and-click.
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By Nicole C. Wong, San Jose Mercury News, Calif.  Feb.
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Two years ago,I publicly floated the concept that IT should start thinking more like entrepreneurs. What a disaster! I was speaking at a meeting of CTOs, and I mentioned that Iâd heard of a few IT departments that were focusing, at least in part, on creating saleable new products and services for their companies. I asked the group what they thought of the idea.
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The couple want it an unconventional and fun affair.
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By Teresa F. Lindeman, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette  Feb. 2--Some ideas sound so good in the office. Like the one about  planting lighted signs showing alien life forms around major U.S. cities as a  way to generate buzz for an upcoming Cartoon Network movie.
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By Katherine Cromer Brock, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas  Sep.
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Penguin is turning to publishing's past   to help usher the industry into the modern era, releasing a   novel in serial form to create a buzz online before the   complete work is released next year.
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By JENNIFER C. YATES PITTSBURGH - A few simple keystrokes may soon turn blather into books.
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Great innovations in wireless technologies have arrived in recent years, and their effect has yet to be realized. But those innovations may be hindered by thinking that an even better innovation is just around the corner.
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By Beth Velliquette, The Herald-Sun, Durham, N.C.  Jun.
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Sometimes, the two concepts can blur.
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Paolo hypothesizes a much-needed tool in a post yesterday, and a follow-up today.
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One of the interesting and unusual things about writing a book like this, in serial form, is that you really never know what you&#39;re going to write about along the`way.
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By Julia Glick, The Press-Enterprise, Riverside, Calif.  Jun.
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When everything gets an API then everything you can imagine will be possible if you can write a script.  And sometimes, to give you an idea, all that has to happen is that a wall come down. The latest, most intriguing such wall was the paywall at the NY Times. Now all of a sudden we find the wealth of information published by the NY Times over many decades is available without tariff. More important, we can point into the archive. We've gotten so accustomed to the wall, that you actually have to think when it may be possible to go in there, as if it left behind a wall in our minds, even after the wall on the web is gone. For example, the first episode of Ken Burns's The War, an epic series about World War II from the American perspective, cited several NY Times articles. If you looked carefully you could see the dates, and the actual headlines, and then if you have a browser handy, as I do (I have an iPhone) you can actually read the article while the narrative continues. Today this is mostly a gimick, but I suspect as we get used to having history so available (like having a library microfilm machine, which I used to spend whole days playing with when I was a kid) it will change our sense of information, perhaps as much as anything else that's ever been on the web. Take movie reviews for example. What a thrill to be able to read a review of a movie that I love that came out in 1932! The reviewers back then were more forgiving, less sarcasting, more enthusiastic. Consider their review of the Hollywood Revue of 1929, a favorite of mine that I've only seen once (I'd pay for a DVD, if it were available). They loved audible movies (that's what they called them) as if the term "talkie" was as elusive as "podcast" was in the summer of 2004. Again, we've just scratched the surface. Wouldn't you like to have NY Times movie reviews integrated with Netflix? Or have Yahoo's movie rating service available on the NY Times site. And I have to wonder whether they really have gone all the way. You can't see the reviews unless you're logged in. Can Google's robots, therefore, see the movie reviews? Unless the've made some special arrangements, it seems not.  It would be helpful to get a technical guide to the newly hatched NY Times on the Web, or (as in the old days of software) a reviewer's guide, so we get some ideas of what to look at. Clearly a lot of work went into opening up the Times archive. I'm going to be in NY the week of October 8 and will have some time toward the end of the week. If anyone at the Times would be willing to spend some time with me reviewing what's now open, that would be helpful. In any case, at least the Times today is somewhat more available to be integrated into the fabric of the web. That's some progress. How much, remains to be seen. Postscript: Kottke did a great job of skimming the surface of the newly opened Times when it first came online, just one week ago today.