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Breaking Windows
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X vs. XP rebuts WinSuperSite (Nov 30 2003 23:24 GMT) - Last week Paul Thurrott’s SuperSite for Windows made some bold claims about Mac OS X and Longhorn, an upcoming version of Windows. The X vs. XP site, which claims to compare OS X and Windows XP in an unbiased manner, responds: “ |
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Sorelle Banderas (Nov 30 2003 23:22 GMT) - Non chiedetemi perché l'ho fatto: basti sapere che l'ho fatto. Ero triste, scazzato, depresso: ho deciso quindi un suicidio mediatico. Sono andato a vedere C'era una volta in Messico. |
Jeff's Weblog
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Two years ago today (Nov 30 2003 23:21 GMT) - Koleen Brooks Two years ago today, I first quoted then mayor of Georgetown, Colorado, Koleen Brooks. She's now facing charges of felony theft, with her trial set to begin next week. |
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What about the boy? (Nov 30 2003 23:20 GMT) - I spent the day today painting, then knitting and watching Friday the 13th, parts II and III. I remember seeing part II but I had forgotten half the crap that happened in it. Here's a little trivia based on the movies today [note: the answers are in the extended entry] -- In which movie does Jason adopt his trademark hockey mask?Before he wears a hockey mask, what does Jason wear on his face? |
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Friendster traffic analysis out (Nov 30 2003 23:20 GMT) - Nielsen analysis of Friendster traffic is interesting. They've found that the average visitor spends almost two hours on the site or twice as long as the top personals sites which still attract three or four times as much traffic. Thanks to Danah Boyd's blog: "The member community format is quickly becoming a popular social network on the web," said Lauren Taub, Internet analyst, Nielsen/NetRatings. "Friendster's growth is impressive, but it is too early to tell if its early success is explained... |
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Social-network guru Boyd (Nov 30 2003 23:20 GMT) - Danah Boyd, a grad student at Berkeley (you can read her blogs Connected Selves and Zephoria ) is featured in this New York Times story (registration required) on this Friendster /social networking expert with some interesting things to say about this phenomenon based on Lawrence Lessig's language. Her irrepressible observations have made her a social-network guru for the programmers and venture capitalists who swarm around Friendster and its competitors.... Ms. Boyd explained Friendster this... |
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The George W. Bush brand of leadership is at best "retro" (Nov 30 2003 23:20 GMT) - A very iteresting HBS Working Knowledge article by David Gergen on what kind of leader Geroge W. Bush is: We have seen this kind of tough, decisive leadership before—in Jack Welch at General Electric, George Patton on the battlefield, Bobby Knight on the basketball court. But we don't often see this brand of leadership in the presidency, and it very much runs against the grain of current leadership studies. Bill Clinton, for example, was studiously non-hierarchical and would look at every... |
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Parker Brothers' Monopoly creates a monopoly (Nov 30 2003 23:20 GMT) - Amusing snippet from the Monopoly story in the Harvard Business School Working Knowledge. "In a bet-the-company strategy in 1935, Parker Brothers decided to put everything it had behind its new game, Monopoly. Good move. An excerpt from The Game Makers." Demand climbed to 35,000 games a week. |
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