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My Employer Sent Me to SXSW and All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt

Saturday, March 27, 2010

Hola devoted readers! We’ve been remiss in bringing you the dish from the south — not to mention from the South By Southwest Interactive Conference — in a timely manner. But have no fear, your gossip needs are going to be satisfied beginning … right … now !

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Social Media Survives Budget Slashing at Many Companies… Why?

Tuesday, October 13, 2009

The recession may be hurting the pocketbooks of people and businesses, but a new study shows that few companies that currently spend money on social media plan to cut back next year. The 2009 Tribalization of Business Study by Deloitte, Beeline Labs and the Society for New Communications Research reveals that 94 percent of the [...]

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Every Company is a Media Company

Friday, October 9, 2009

Not that long ago, media companies were easy to define. A media company could be a movie studio, television network, newspaper or magazine publisher, radio station or really any company that controlled a means of distributing content. But technology has brought about an enormous shift that many companies don’t yet recognize. Most companies are now [...]

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Facebook Tries a New Approach to TOS

Thursday, February 26, 2009

Following the recent debacle in which Facebook freaked out a large percentage of its user base with a clumsily-handled change to its Terms of Service, I was surprised when this showed up on my FB home page today: Terms of Use Update Today we announced new opportunities for users to play a meaningful role in [...]

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New White House Site Outlines Technology Strategy

Tuesday, January 20, 2009

With Obama now officially President, the White House site has been redone to reflect the new administration’s priorities. Of special interest to those of us in MCDM is the Technology Agenda page. While it’s filled with important information, two things that jumped out right away for me were: Protect the Openness of the Internet: Support [...]

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Novelists Who Really Phone it in

Saturday, January 3, 2009

A recent issue of The New Yorker had an interesting article on cell phone novels in Japan. Popularized about five years ago, these novels are posted to the Web by authors who write them on their phones, constrained by the limitations of the medium. The most successful of them are published on paper in a [...]

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Friendbo: Middleground Security for a Social World

Monday, November 3, 2008

Once again, I’m learning of some cool work being done by here at UW. Today’s Seattle Times (which my family still subscribes to in print form, just for the sheer Ludditeness of it) contains an article entitled “Inflexible Security? Lighten Up” by technology columnist Brier Dudley. The piece describes Friendbo, an access-control system being developed [...]

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