http://mooreslore.corante.com/ en-us dana@a-clue.com 2006-02-23T15:45:42-05:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2006/02/23/what_must_craigslist_do.php News of the Civil Rights lawsuit aimed at making Craigslist mediate its listings has hit The New York Times. The Chicago Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law says that the company’s current ads often violate laws against non-discrimination.... 49181@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ Journalism 2006-02-23T15:45:42-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2006/02/23/no_such_thing_as_free_wifi.php Earthlink is busy turning all those dreams of free municipal WiFi into broken promises. Both the municipal deal they signed in Philly and the one they’ve joined in San Francisco (with Google) carry user price tags. In Philly they say... 49179@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ 802.11 2006-02-23T15:23:39-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2006/02/17/blog_pimple_about_to_pop.php Slate has another of those "blog bubble about to pop" stories out. (The doll's name is pimple, available here. We are not into grossing y'all out here at Mooreslore.) As a business story it may be 100% accurate. As a... 48828@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ blogging 2006-02-17T13:11:39-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2006/02/10/the_return_of_political_spam.php Spam is back in politics. But this time, the industry insists, it's different. This time it's e-mail marketing. Leading the charge is an outfit called Advocacy Inc., headed by Roger Alan Stone (he uses Alan so you won't confuse him... 48302@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ spam 2006-02-10T11:36:02-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2006/02/09/the_superbowls_most_important_ad.php The funniest Super Bowl ad was probably the FedEx bit with the caveman saying "it's not my problem" FedEx hadn't been invented and the other caveman's package got stomped by the dinosaur. (Although my 14 year old son howled at... 47943@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ cellular 2006-02-09T14:33:59-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2006/02/02/corruption_on_the_web.php Verisign CEO Stratton Sclavos is a big investor in incumbency. And he gets value for money. OpenSecrets.Org reports that he gave $84,000 in political contributions during the 2004 cycle, and has (with his wife) given another $24,700 in 2005. The... 47774@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ Business Models 2006-02-02T13:31:42-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2006/01/31/hipaa_worse_than_the_disease.php Info-Tech has a release out that says they analyzed the HIPAA law and found it useless. (The image is from the blog of David Hoffman.) HIPAA stands for Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act. It was signed by President Clinton... 47584@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ medicine 2006-01-31T11:58:35-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2006/01/30/the_internet_necessity.php A few years ago some wags talked about people having a "right" to Internet service, and they got laughed at. Let's try it another way. America's economic future requires every citizen have access to Internet resources, and full freedom to... 47524@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ Internet 2006-01-30T21:11:42-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2006/01/29/this_weeks_clue_the_entrepreneurial_team.php This week's issue of A-Clue.Com is on-topic (for once). It's about e-commerce, and about how to make start-ups work. Specifically we're talking about what it takes to get a start-up launched and the character of a successful entrepreneur, who is... 47388@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ e-commerce 2006-01-29T11:14:40-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2006/01/25/porn_fight_kills_the_email_guy.php Everyone hates spam. But there has been no political constituency potent enough to fight the well-organized Direct Marketing Association, which has successfully defended spammers from meaningful regulation for a decade. Now Matthew Prince, a young Chicago lawyer, thinks he has... 47076@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ spam 2006-01-25T08:27:48-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2006/01/20/this_weeks_clue_circuit_breakers.php This week's issue of A-Clue.Com is another one of those policy cum history cum politics ruminations I know some of you don't like. But it's my newsletter. And some of the subscribers enjoyed this one. You're invited to join the... 46860@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ Politics 2006-01-20T15:49:14-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2006/01/20/what_jobs_could_buy_today.php Disney. The Walt Disney Co., including ABC, ESPN, the movies, the theme parks -- the whole shebang -- is presently valued at about $50 billion. That's actually about one-sixth less than it was worth five years ago. Apple Computer Corp.,... 46859@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ Business Strategy 2006-01-20T15:25:52-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2006/01/20/angel_investors_in_america.php NOTE: I'm promoting this to the top today because of its comment thread. When I first interviewed Richard Wingard back in September, I thought little of it. He seemed to have a clever way to research basic research, using individual... 8939@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ Investment 2006-01-20T12:56:53-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2006/01/11/the_content_chimera.php The Media PC ain't gonna happen. The "walled gardens" of the cell companies are going to come down. The telcos' plans in cable are non-starters. All these huge corporations are subject to the Content Chimera, the idea that networks are... 46021@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ Consumer Electronics 2006-01-11T13:36:26-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2006/01/09/the_watermarking_of_the_web.php The news business is going to try cracking down on the Web this year. Already, I'm seeing all news pictures, even common mug shots of celebrities, given labels. They're small, usually in a corner. They read AP or AFP or... 45768@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ Internet 2006-01-09T16:02:55-05:00