This article states that CBS is planning to podcast Guiding Light as one of its first forays into podcasting.
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Copy That! Excerpts from Kinko Founders Book on Fortune.com
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Fortune.com has an excerpt from Paul Orfalea’s book on the founding of Kinkos Copy This! : Lessons from a Hyperactive Dyslexic who Turned a Bright Idea Into One of America’s Best Companies. The article is called Kinko’s: Copy That!.
The Long Tail – Could the Labels Be Right?
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The Long Tail website discusses the idea of a tiered pricing model for music through iTunes, something record labels are pushing for. I think it makes sense – most of the music I would buy is 80’s shredding anyway, so I would probably stick in the $.79 – $.99 range. 😉
Nikon announces first Wi-Fi enabled Digital Camera
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Apples “Violation” of Creative Patent
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The latest news about Creative owning a patent on “Automatic Hierarchical Categorization of Music By Metadata” has me a little annoyed. I just don’t see why one company would have to pay another for the ability to create a hierarchical menuing system. The ability of companies to “own ideas” rather than specific implementations is just not something that makes sense to me.
An article about podcasting from Duluth News Tribune
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The Duluth News Tribune has an article on podcasting today in, of all places, the politics section. The article mentions a podcast called Strange Brain Radio that sounds interesting.
Bloggers account effects of Katrina on the Gulf Coast
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This ZDNet article talks about how bloggers, including a newspaper and an NBC affilate, are providing “some of the most vivid, first hand accounts” of Hurricane Katrina.
IT worker confidence falls in August
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GooglePark
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As mentioned on yesterdays GeekNewsCentral podcast, take a look at GooglePark! This one is pretty funny.
Robert Feder : Paul Harvey broadcast killed when he referrs to Jerry Falwell instead of Pat Robertson
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Robert Feder reports that Paul Harvey’s radio show had to be killed and later refed to affilliates on Wednesday when, meaning to talk about Pat Robertsons call to assasinate Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, he referred to Jerry Falwell instead. Ooops!
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