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The “pennies for dollars” gambit
For traditional media companies, the online strategy is “substituting pennies for dollars,” says New York Daily News publisher Mort Zuckerman. That’s a fair assessment, although some may argue their online strategy is adding pennies to dollars. Behind that are lots of economic forces at work: disintermediation, new disruptive players, the power of the network, the…
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Ogling boobies on Facebook
Topless babes in ads, OK; breast feeding mom photos, no. Hmmm …. Chris Brogan posted Thursday a screen shot of a topless lass in the ad position in the left rail with a WTF commentary of how did that happen. This, now, from the same folks that in the last few months banned photos of…
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Two Knoxville blogs are on a news “Top 100” list
If you could only 100 blogs, which 100 should you read to be most on top of the news? Two Knoxville area blogs make the list: Instapundit.com at No. 1 and SayUncle.com at No. 91 in a Carnegie Mellon research effort called the CASCADES project. The project studies “Cost-effective Outbreak Detection in Networks” and in…