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I started a new gig today, and a very pleasant part of the day was spent setting up a spanking new MacBook. (Yes, more on the new gig soon… not meaning to be cryptic, just trying to gather my thoughts semi-intelligently. And it’s late. And I want to watch the Champion’s League final from earlier [...]

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On Thursday, April 6, 2006, CNET achieved a cultural milestone. 42 Down, four letters: “Popular online tech. news source” in the New York Times crossword puzzle. CNET is more than news, but gift horse, mouth, etc.

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The New York Times article eath by Smiley Face: When Rivals Disdain Profit” muses on how businesses must now compete with those who are not motivated first and foremost by money. Whatever I think about this from a media point of view, I think it’s a nifty part of 21st century life that enough people [...]

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This March 13, 2006 article from the NYTimes will disappear behind the paywall shortly, but I’ll link to it all the same, for two reasons. To point out how a multi-brand property gets boiled down to a single audience To bewail style guides, although I love them dearly in other contexts The article: “Hungry Media [...]

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Yesterday’s Google analyst day commanded a lot of attention worldwide from the press and their customers. CNET News.com was no exception. What I didn’t realize until I got home last night and had a chance to take a look at my colleagues’ coverage was that we took three simple steps to make our coverage more [...]

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Jeremy Zawody provies a useful annotation of Tom Coates’s Future of Web Apps presentation. Jeremy writes that his version is “translated for Product Managers.” I’d have to argue that the translation is less important than two other benefits. Pulling information from the data island that is PDF. Shorter is better. The answer to Media-induced ADD… [...]

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As Matt McAlister notes in Making your web site weigh less: People have learned how to use more complicated user interfaces on the Internet, but I find it fascinating that people still gravitate toward the simplest interactions.  I like the idea behind CNet’s cluster cloud with each article, but I never click on it…it’s too [...]

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I’m nearly caught up on the life I put on hold while News.com was re-introducing itself a short while ago. Carving pumpkins, reading feeds, exercising (a little bit), and thinking about various tidbits I want to blog. But not tonight. Well, except for this Fortune article from Friday, where David Kirkpatrick tell readers about Big [...]

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For over two years, I’ve managed — first indirectly, then directly — CNET News.com Investor and a corresponding private-label financial website (and print) business, known internally as “Private Wires.” After several months of work, I’m pleased that our new arrangement has been publicly announced. CNET sold the private label business to Financial Content. In a [...]

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