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Obama Asks to Delay Digital TV Transition

This is really amazing. If people can’t figure out what is going on with their television after the nonstop advertising, media coverage, and that ill-fated NASCAR sponsorship… what more could the FCC do? Do it and get it over with so that the bandwidth can be freed up for better uses. On one hand Obama [...]

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NBC Drives the Chevy Volt

Good segment on the upcoming Chevy Volt. It’s shaping up to be a very solid offering from GM and even though it will be expensive compared to, for example, a Malibu (which shares many of the same styling cues) I am confident that they will see strong sales on this model. I am on the [...]

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Twitter or Plaxo Having Issues?

I just received an email from a friend asking if I retweeted this. I didn’t.

Adding further mystery to the issue, this came through on my friend’s Plaxo stream and when I looked at my message traffic I didn’t see it.

At any rate, I went in to reset my password and whatdayaknow, an error.

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Mystery Roar from Faraway Space Detected

I don’t suppose it sounded like this?

LONG BEACH, Calif. — Space is typically thought of as a very quiet place. But one team of astronomers has found a strange cosmic noise that booms six times louder than expected.[From SPACE.com -- Mystery Roar from Faraway Space Detected]

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Stacey’s Bookstore Closing, Hand Wringing to Commence

When Kepler’s in Menlo Park announced they were closing there was an uproar and eventually a white knight saved them, and when DeLauer’s in Oakland announced they were closing there was media coverage and eventually a white knight. Today it is Stacey’s in San Francisco and right on schedule, uproar and “how could this happen!”. [...]

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Cobra’s New Radar Detector Makes Adding Speed Trap Updates Easy

This is a good idea but it doesn’t go far enough, it needs a wireless communication capability. Having to carry the unit with you and manually update the database is cumbersome. Incidentally, digital cameras also suffer from not having integrated communication capabilities, it would make sharing digital images so much easier.

Cobra’s jump forward [...]

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Newspapers and the Web

You may be wondering why I post so many items about newspapers and the web. Simply put, this is one of the most fascinating business stories of this decade, about how an industry that even today generates a significant percentage of original online content continues to frustrate itself through a reflexive tendency to want to [...]

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Why the TechCrunch Economy Will Falter

Reading yesterday that AppLoop has apparently shut down impressed upon me a fundamental flaw in the startup economy promoted by a wide swath of pundits and proponents, that starting is more important than sustaining.

Now, we’re hearing rumors that the startup is in trouble, and they appear to hold some truth. For one, the company’s website [...]

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WTF? Sandals?

Kind of makes one wonder what the hell Google was extracting from the content that would suggest an ad for sandals would be a good fit.

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Get Ready for Cable Wars

This is a really interesting article that highlights the disruptive nature of online content. We’re going to see more of this as the web continues to mainstream as a video distribution platform that upends broadcast and cable broadband.

During the negotiations, Time Warner Cable threatened to make it easier for its subscribers to connect [...]