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Monthly Archives: April 2006
Community News, as you like it
AP says Backfence is buying Bayosphere.
Susan DeFife, Backfence's chief executive, said that while Gillmor brought the vision, Backfence is able to bring the tools to make it easier for readers to submit items — on local businesses, sports, events and anything else a reader might like to share.
There's a property called Voic.us in Atlanta, focusing on the political scene, which is demonstrating how big media misses the details needed to draw a picture of the true story.
As an aside, Dan Gillmor is a good writer. I am glad to hear his dream keeps on living.
Filed under Media, Uncategorized
Don’t touch that dial!
Literally, according to this USA Today article TV makers are going to let broadcasters seize control of YOUR television and not allow you to skip commercials by switching channels.
Yes, according to Royal Philips Electronics. A patent application with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office says researchers of the Netherland-based consumer electronics company have created a technology that could let broadcasters freeze a channel during a commercial, so viewers wouldn't be able to avoid it.
I suggest we all stop buying Phillips products so that they understand that we don't need producers in Hollywood or New York forcing content into our homes that we may not want.
Filed under Innovation, Uncategorized
Public Branding – A waste of people’s money?
BusinessWeek posts a column by Edwin Colyer discussing the differences between public and private branding, and why so many (as in almost every) public branding efforts fall flat.
So can investments in branding programs be justified, or is the public sector merely following a marketing fad? Indeed, is branding even appropriate for public services?
Georgia is "re-branding" itself — dumping the slogon and logo that has followed state marketing efforts for almost 30 years. $5 million is budgeted to "impress" the new brand — $5 million in a year to compete against the some 4,000 messages a day that we each personally receive…
Filed under Government, Uncategorized
Wrong today, right tomorrow
Voic.us links here to point out the true fate of the stem cell bill, SB 596. Truth is, I thought it passed until I gave the matter further thought the day after.
But, next year, you can expect more bills on stem cells, phishing, obscenity, email registries and other scintillating science and technology issues.
Filed under Uncategorized
Don’t know which way they are going?
I used to get a free lunch by doing old comedy radio routines with a couple of high school friends of mine. One skit came from Burns and Allen. George was listening to gracie read a letter from her sister in law explaining how her brother was hit by a truck. Getting straight to the punch line, Gracie explained how it wasn't the driver's fault he hit her brother. It seems her brother had two pairs of pants on and the driver didn't know which way he was heading.
Well, that anecdote was a not so short transition to the story found in California where AT&T and Verizon are lobbying for the state government there to regulate video and TV delivery instead of the customary local government franchising arrangement the cable industry has been suffering under.
Now, contrast that position with the one taken by AT&T and Verizon in Georgia supporting the passage of SB 120 where they argued that the state should not regulate broadband services — which include video delivery.
Course, I predict the other shoe drops here next year when a modified California bill arrives here for the next session of the General Assembly. And, the proliferation of cities in Fulton county that might want to regulate delivery of video signals will surely be brought up (funny how all these seemingly separate issues wind up working together.)
Filed under Uncategorized
Stroke Treatment
Story in Boston Globe about using remote diagnostic tools to treat strokes — successfully. This technology has been available for wider distribution in Georgia for the past 4 years. Remind me to write the list of reasons why this technology, at an initial cost of less then $10,000 per installation, has not been deployed, in Georgia.
Filed under Health, Uncategorized
The Grey Lady sets another standard
The New York Times unveiled a new web page design. Clean, devoid of multiple visual distractions, remembers that this is a news page not an advertising supplement.
Filed under Media, Uncategorized
Down the Rabbit Hole, Part 2
Remember I said things dont' appear as they seem. Voic.us reports that SB 596, the Stem Cell bill, passed. Well, it did pass the House at 11:26 pm on the 40th day. However, the House made changes to the bill, thus requiring the Senate to agree to those changes. And, according to the Legis web site, there was no Senate vote to agree.
Thus, the bill is dead.
Filed under legislation, stem cell, Uncategorized
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