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Courtesy of NetMarketing, this article from Media Life Magazine suggests that the large, hard-to-miss ads on C|Net (called Interactive Messaging Units, or IMUs), are working. From the article: 60 percent said that the units were worth stopping their activities to view, and 49 percent said that they thought the units were the type of ad…

I just added a “Google Box” on my home page. Google just opened up access to its system via SOAP, so that now anytime Radio publishes my home page, it dynamically updates the search results on this page. Very cool. More info is available here at Userland’s page, and here at Google’s. Most unexpected result?…

With any luck, this item (in any XML aggregator) will contain just the first sentence – all other content will be included on the weblog itself (for those reading in an aggregator, follow the link to the full post for more info). The advantage to this is that anyone subscribing to my blog will see less content…

Testing.

Business 2.0 reports on concrete examples in the corporate world where KM is working. The author cites a number of examples of companies (Wal-Mart, G.E., Buckman Labs, and others) that use targeted KM efforts to further the business model. One quote: See the pattern? A clear business model — “business model” meaning “how we make…

Great article.

Anyone interested in seeing how weblogs and the law can get along needs to visit Denise’s site. Denise is an attorney at Crosby Heafey Roach & May, and maintains an excellent list of “blawgs” (wish I’d thought of the term!) along the right column of her page. It’s an excellent site. ( Thanks Ernie for…

Secret List of Potential Suitors for Global Crossing Exposed. The identities of more than 50 companies that have expressed interest in acquiring Global Crossing are no longer secret to one another, courtesy of an e- mail message from Global Crossing’s lawyers. By Simon Romero and Geraldine Fabrikant. [New York Times: Technology] At least we have…

Each year, the Citizens Against Government Waste produce the “Congressional Pig Book”. They released the 2002 pig book today, and Fritz Hollings (D-SC) is the proud (?) winner of the Narcissist Award. What did he do to beat others in this coveted category? He got the Senate to appropriate “$14 million for the Hollings Marine…

Jenny, the Shifted Librarian says today: I think librarians love Google, but we’ll never trust pagerank enough to use it to verify authenticity. Of course, we take almost nothing on the web for granted, and that’s one major difference between us and your average web surfer. Librarians need our own pagerank system that we can…