Monday, March 11, 2002

For the conservatives among us... ...how does "academic honesty" differ from honesty? The Consequence of Plagiarism - Overseer Doris Kearns Goodwin should step down for breach of academic honesty. [The Harvard Crimson] 9:05:26 PM     Comments[]

This news aggregator isn't entirely clear to me. First, why does the Wall Street Journal insist on making 100% of the entry in the aggregator a link? That's not the way I want to post. Second, why did my news aggregator just show me news items all the way back to 10:00a.m. this morning? I've browsed it since then and deleted things I wasn't posting. In some cases I had several repeated news items for other webloggers; e.g. Scripting News and Doc Searls. Where's the best place to read about this and understand how it works and how my supposed hourly updates are really working? 6:12:23 PM     Comments[]

I'm posting this mainly to see how the titles feature works. Where's it going to appear in this post? What link should I be using since this is straight from my news aggregator? Postscript to today's new feature. I clearly made a mistake in the design. On the HTML rendering you should have full control of the way the title renders. Please consider this feature, for the next 24 hours, to be a beta. I'm going to break it and do it right. Sorry. Still diggin.  [Scripting News] 5:54:30 PM     Comments[]

The RCS train! If a train leaves Silicon Valley headed East at 100mph and 12 hours later another train leaves Memphis traveling 50mph, how long before the Memphis train is blown off the tracks? That's how I feel right now about the Radio Community Server and my progress with Radio.(I'm the Memphis train if the metaphor is too fuzzy.) I'm coming up to speed. The ride is GREAT fun - I've not been involved in this sort of hands-on stuff in a lot of years. But, I haven't even begun to try to understand the current & potential meaning and benefits of RCS. However, with people like Russ Lipton on the job, I'm counting on knowing some of this stuff when I need to know it. 5:12:34 PM     Comments[]

Hello Dave! 12:25:03 PM     Comments[]

Wow...2 months (or more) late, but I think I finally did this; and, I might understand a little of it. Is that progress?  DIM  (Did it myself!)     DIY 12:16:01 PM     Comments[]

What did he just read? When Dave writes something like Metablogging, I find myself wondering what he's just read that prompted his thoughts. Was it something I wrote or posted? ("your so vain, you probably think this post is about you, don't you...") Was it something he's been pondering for a while? Anyhow, he's right. I'm still using my own site for questions and experimentation with weblogs. But, I'm also trying to ease into some of my other interests. Thanks to all who tolerate one and offer help with the other! Ideally, I'd have a weblog for development and a weblog for production - just like in software development! Instead, the world is seeing this one warts and all. 11:38:45 AM     Comments[]

Different perspectives on options CEO's see it one way. Employees see it another. Shareholders see it yet another. Why is it that we are creating companies in which there is such a disparity between all of these people who should have a shared interest? The reason is that we have CEO's who seek to be treated differently from all other shareholders. Stock Options Are Faulted by Buffett. Warren E. Buffett, using the forum that the Berkshire Hathaway annual report provides, has renewed his attack against the widespread use of stock options. [New York Times: Business] T. J. Rodgers of Cypress Semiconductor sees it this way. [from the Wall Street Journal] 10:29:13 AM     Comments[]

A clueless mainstream media Wow! How far from reality are "journalists" going to get before they realize how badly they are missing "the point?" Harvard Business Review's editor resigned following a conflict-of-interest furor involving former GE chief Jack Welch. But Suzy Wetlaufer will retain her office and become editor at large, a deal Mr. Welch helped broker. [Wall Street Journal] 10:13:10 AM     Comments[]

David Berry wants a spell checker... Thanks David for the work you are doing. Great site and useful info. I'm reminded of the following: Ode to the Spell Chequer!   Eye halve a spelling chequer It came with my pea sea It plainly marques four my revue Miss steaks eye kin knot sea.   Eye strike a key and type a word And weight four it two say Weather eye am wrong oar write It shows me strait a weigh.   As soon as a mist ache is maid It nose bee fore two long And eye can put the error rite Its rare lea ever wrong.   Eye have run this poem threw it I am shore your pleased two no Its letter perfect awl the weigh My chequer tolled me sew.   --Anon. 10:03:29 AM     Comments[]

How Warren Buffett thinks about shareholders: Charlie and I are disgusted by the situation, so common in the last few years, in which shareholders have suffered billions in losses while the CEOs, promoters, and other higher-ups who fathered these disasters have walked away with extraordinary wealth. Indeed, many of these people were urging investors to buy shares while concurrently dumping their own, sometimes using methods that hid their actions. To their shame, these business leaders view shareholders as patsies, not partners. [from the 2001 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Report] Lest anyone thinks I'm somehow hyping Berkshire Hathaway as an investment - quite the contrary. I'm suggesting there is some excellent guidance about managing a business in the principles used to run this particular company! How many companies have you invested in which offer an Owner's Manual? 9:16:13 AM     Comments[]

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