Home Video Made to Watch on HDTV. The Sony FX1 is the first three-chip HDTV camcorder for consumers. Is it worth its $3,300 price tag? By By DAVID POGUE. [NYT > Technology]

 

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Middle Earth for sale on eBay. Get in there before Sauron does [The Register]

 

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Q&A: IBM's LeBlanc on WebSphere plans. As general manager of IBM's application and integration middleware division, IBM veteran Robert LeBlanc has charge of the key technical pieces corporate users need to carry out enterprise-wide integration strategies and other complex strategies such as SOAs (service-oriented architectures). He has the strategic responsibility for the company's line WebSphere application servers, transaction and messaging systems, pervasive computing software, and business integration solutions. [InfoWorld: Top News]

 

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Users cite VoIP's convenience, cost savings. At the VoiceCon 2005 conference, many sessions were devoted to finding voice-over-IP applications that can provide business benefits. [Computerworld News]

 

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IT execs seek weapons to fight spyware. Spyware tools will be a hot commodity at this week's RSA Conference, as companies look for products to help fight the growing menace. Users and analysts say spyware has become more of a corporate threat than spam or identity theft. [Computerworld News]

 

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From a landscape architecture business point of view, I don't think 'word of mouth' has died yet...but how might you spend advertising dollars?

Advertising and the Internet.

At yesterday's conference Dan Gillmor talked about a looming crisis for print pubs, that most of their advertising is moving to the Internet, to services that don't care much about objectivity. This line must go over well when he's talking to editorial people at Knight-Ridder, for example, but to a blogger, well, I want to ask the (obvious) questions.

Isn't it true that eBay and Craig's List (two leading examples) don't actually have editorial content that could be objective or not? Hasn't the Internet done what it always does, unbundle and disintermediate? Who says that local advertising has to be bundled with local editorial and opinion? Sure, it was that way in the past, but why should it continue? What advantage is there for the user?

And by the way, can we once and for all get rid of the notion that professional journalists are objective? They may offer independence, but no human being can get away from their own experience, which colors everything they see.

[Scripting News]

 

 

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