Year: 2002

Find Sales Leads and Other Prospect Lists. This response to a question from a site visitor appears in our How To … Do It with Research! section. We answer this question: Regarding research on specific industries, where can you find a listing of companies within a specific SIC/NAICS code that is either free or inexpensive?…

… the hard way. Many thanks to Will, Ron, and Joe who guided me to a number of resources for restoring my subscriptions in the news aggregator. Only problem was that Radio was particularly hungry yesterday – and not only did it eat my subscriptions file, but also managed to chew up the backup. Hmmm….…

Very light posts the last few days. Working on a project that will be released next week (stay tuned) and traveling. In the meantime, enjoy this quote from my Ukrainian cab driver today in Buffalo (you can add your own thick slavic accent): “Laugh is my second profession in United States. I like having to…

Whatever. Go Meme Go. { The longest path?. { Memetics Experiment. It’s a dirty job but somebody has to do it. {A memetics experiment — pass it along. {Life in the Aggregator. { An Experiment: Life in the Aggregator. How far can it travel?  Please play by passing it along, including all source links… [jenett.radio]…

Area woman goes behind the scenes at The Onion, gains potentially unique insights: If you enjoy The Onion as much as I do, you won’t want to miss Kathryn S. Wenner’s behind-the-scenes report published today in the American Journalism Review. [How Appealing]Thanks to Howard Bashman for this pointer. The permanent link to the American Journalism…

Al Macintyre’s Radio Doc Sources.A great collection of links to Radio documentation, tips, tools, experts. I keep finding new, juicy things and ripe, proven resources. High editorial value. Thanks, Al. [a klog apart] I’ll second Terry’s endorsement. If you’re looking for a good place for Radio tips and tricks, Al’s list is a great resource.

Is E-mail the Killer App?. …In March, 1998, MITRE, a non-profit corporation and a leader in knowledge sharing practices, created a “thank you“ database. It works like this: Whenever someone replies with a “thank you,” the entire e-mail thread can be cc’d to a “thank you” e-mail box. The “ thank you” e-mail is copied…

Ah, Marketing!. Flight Attendant: Please prepare for our landing in Tanzania…I’m sorry, it is now called “New Zanzibar” Excuse me. It is now called “Pepsi presents New Zanzibar.”– The Simpsons Panama City, a Florida town of 9,000 souls, has decided to put ads on their police cars. The mayor said: “We had some concerns over…

Here’s a screen shot of what the desktop website looks like now that I’ve got the Radio menuing added as an activeRoll. (It’s too small to see in this snapshot; click the image to see it full size.) Thanks go to Marc Barrot for making this so freakin’ easy.

After adding the radio_navlinks outline to my desktop website, I realized that only solved part of the problem. The other was getting the same navigation options for all Radio pages – the Aggregator page, the preferences pages, etc. If you add the activeRoll to the #template.txt file, you’ll end up publishing it to the rest…