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People wonder whether social network advertising will prove as lucrative as the search ads which have driven Google to its current throne. I don’t have the answer.
But this morning I saw an ad on Facebook that was relevant and interesting to me, and I clicked on it. It was a text ad, “Core Perform C2 [...]

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When I saw this recent headline Aruba to buy ‘Switzerland of network management’, I cringed and knew I had to share this tiny rant.
Too many people in technology want to be “Switzerland.”
Nothing against the Swiss or their beautiful country, but this terrible shorthand needs to expire. No one should aim for that position, even if [...]

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I have no artistic talent, and no plans to start drawing or writing comics — even if I were to call them graphic novels. So, why did I just read Making Comics? This broad how-to about how to, yes, make comics caught my eye because the more I do in business, the more I realize [...]

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When I met Matt for lunch, I didn’t realize we’d wrap up with podcast #7. Apologies for the sound. Matt’s looking for a better device. Being outside the restaurant, on Mission Street, didn’t help. But this was fun all the same.

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Yesterday was the first day of the new Wall Street Journal. Mostly, the changes focused on the print edition, which got smaller, physically. While the change was initiated to save $18M a year in newsprint costs, I think the end result is attractive and useful, mostly because it’s better in the hand and on the [...]

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I pre-ordered Edward Tufte’s Beautiful Evidence from Amazon. After reading two of his earlier books (I own Visual Display), I was looking forward to his first in years. Bottom line… the book is beautifully made, and two chapters shine, but this tome feels more like a collection of uneven essays than the tour-de-force of his [...]

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While at CNET News.com, I led some experiments in PDF production of online special reports. Multi-day reports are made available in PDF format, and placed behind registration regularly. We also tried selling some of these reports, with mixed success…but it wasn’t worth the effort.
So today’s news that the Guardian (UK) is going to offer a [...]

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I’ve had too nice a day overall to spend too much time teasing out something truly new on the topics of where data lives, which data is your data, what formats are most future-proof, and which companies may or may not have found a path for data and formats which both serves people best and [...]

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