Still relying mostly on 'word-of-mouth' for new work?  What about...Podcasting News proposes a way for casters to include metadata about advertisements that go in their RSS feeds, so that when they display a link to your podcast they can also display your ads. They asked me about this a few days ago, and I said it's a good idea, and a good use of RSS. There are too many plans for world domination in the podcast world, frankly I don't think any of them will work. A mini-dotcom boom. The people at Podcasting News are proposing something more modest, more realistic, more cooperative, less about domination and more about working together. [Scripting News]

 

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Blank Discs Not Created Equal. The quest for cheap, high-quality blank CDs and DVDs spawns a vast community of enthusiasts, with aficionados swapping hot finds online. By Aaron Weiss. [Wired News]

 

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The cut-throat economy...Easymobile and Fresh cut prices. UK no-frills mobile phone service Easymobile cuts call costs, but is promptly undercut by rival service Fresh. [BBC News | Technology | UK Edition]

 

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eWEEK: Tags Turning Web Chaos into Categories. In the halls and session rooms at the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference here, a series of talks this week explored the growing use of tags to let users associate keyword metadata to Web information. [Tomalak's Realm]

 

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How do we market and sell our commodity called design?   Technology Review: E-Commerce Gets Smarter. The business jargon for this model of integrated retail sales is "multichanneling" -- that is, fusing digital services with in-store, mail-order, and telephone sales, and with any other retail channels. The dige­rati have called it "clicks and mortar" since the Internet boom of the 1990s. No matter the term, it is now the driving force in retail. [Tomalak's Realm]

 

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:)   Down with Chip 'n PIN, mini-black holes and cyber humans. Letters Technophobes R us [The Register]

 

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