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January 2004 Archives

Yahoo RSS first thoughts
After using the Yahoo RSS reader for five minutes, I offer some hasty thoughts.
January 22, 2004 - 259 words

Yahoo Re-aggregator
After a false start earlier this month, My Yahoo now includes an RSS aggregator.
January 22, 2004 - 91 words

How Much Security is Needed?
Not all security measures are appropriate in all situations. You need to consider the value of the information being protected when designing a security system. Also, some novel approaches to preventing dictionary attacks.
January 21, 2004 - 662 words, 3 comments

Weblogs for Capitalists
I’m speaking at "How to Capitalize on Blogging," on Feb 5, 2004.
January 19, 2004 - 85 words, 2 comments

Only in the public sector
The California DMV has office hours that baffle and amaze.
January 18, 2004 - 38 words, 4 comments

Management by Baseball
A former baseball reporter and current management consultant takes lessons learned from baseball news and applies them to business management.
January 17, 2004 - 140 words, 1 comment

I-Blog
I’ve joined the staff of MarketingWonk as the new moderator of I-Blog, an email discussion list focused on the use of weblogs in business and marketing.
January 13, 2004 - 179 words, 1 comment

Spammer discussion
Inside the (very small) minds of comment spammers.
January 11, 2004 - 116 words, 9 comments

Yahoo Aggregator
Yahoo launches an RSS aggregator. Maybe.
January 7, 2004 - 202 words, 12 comments

How to be a successful consultant
Jeff Nichols starts a new series on the role of an analyst.
January 7, 2004 - 77 words

New project and identities
I’ve started a new project that has me musing about my professional identity.
January 1, 2004 - 631 words, 6 comments

Spider-Man marketing by Blog
Sony Pictures is getting free marketing on blogs with the creation of Spider-Man 2 blog template sets.
January 1, 2004 - 152 words, 6 comments

XHTML Services?
Jon Udell says that intranets should abandon Web services like SOAP and REST in favor of screen scraping XHTML. Hogwash.
January 1, 2004 - 729 words