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Tuesday, August 8, 2006

Squad Leaders

by Frank Paynter on August 8, 2006

Arrington the Insufferable presents a lengthy video featuring a couple dozen of the Web 2.0 Bubble-boys, guys with good ideas and leadership responsibility roughly comparable to that of a corporal in a Marine rifle platoon, although mostly without the killing part. These little shops, eight or ten people who focus on bringing widgets and utilities into a market and selling them to larger concerns in order to realize their worth, are modeled on businesses 1000 times their size. They have inflated job titles (“CEO,” “CTO”), stock options, the whole nine yards. What they don’t have much of is “product.”

…take my snarky critique with a grain of salt, because salted in the bubbly-webby-gooodness and neat stuff, there are one or two actual companies engaged in meeting a perceived need through product development, sales, and marketing.

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Snake Preview and Chris Locke’s Bird Fluent

by Frank Paynter on August 8, 2006

Check out Chris Locke’s amazing MySpace herpetarium construction.

…and here is the promised Snake Preview of Samuel Jackson as the Voice of God in the recent audio remix of the Holy Bible.

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Strumpette when the lights go on…

August 8, 2006

The prolific Doctor Weinberger appears today in Strumpette, with a guest posting on transparency. Among much else, he says,
So, all hail transparency… except it’s important that we preserve some shadows. Opaqueness in the form of anonymity protects whistleblowers and dissidents, women being beaten by their husbands, girls looking for abortion advice, people working through feelings [...]

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StopBadWare

August 8, 2006

David Weinberger reports on an effort called StopBadWare.org that collates information on bad-ware distribution and — through a partnership with Google — pops you out on a warning page when you attempt to click through to a badWare site from a Google search… a little something to protect you before you get suckt into downloading [...]

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