http://mooreslore.corante.com/ en-us dana@a-clue.com 2006-02-21T19:38:30-05:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2006/02/21/fall_of_radio_shack.php News that David Edmondson, the CEO of Radio Shack, had to quit after a week because he phonied-up his resume was sad to read. The more I thought about the story, the sadder I got. That's because Radio Shack had... 49048@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ Consumer Electronics 2006-02-21T19:38:30-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2006/02/14/yahoo_gets_lost_in_translation_baddaboom_baddabing.php Yahoo tried to draw some favorable press coverage today. (That's actress Charlize Theron, but she's very small, hard to recognize. That's deliberate, as you'll see.) In the wake of a scandal over the fact its Chinese affiliate cooperated with... 48566@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ Business Strategy 2006-02-14T14:37:40-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2006/02/12/the_phony_fon_scandal.php By ignoring what blogging is about, The Wall Street Journal has created a scandal out of whole cloth. Here's the conflation, in a nutshell. Journalists can blog, and blogs can be journalism. Thus many journalists assume all blogging is journalism.... 48413@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ Journalism 2006-02-12T17:40:54-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2006/02/05/aol_yahoo_will_sell_you_out_for_a_penny_maybe_less.php AOL and Yahoo have begun offering corporations "preferential delivery" of their marketing e-mails to users for prices ranging from .25-1 cent per message. The scam is being run by Goodmail Systems, whose home page advertises "if it's certified, it's safe."... 47822@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ spam 2006-02-05T10:32:24-05:00 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/2006/02/01/st_google_and_the_dragons.php Change is the one business constant. Those who embrace it succeed, those who resist it fail. But change also dislocates. Workers threatened by change organize unions and seek protection from government. The Luddite movement was a call by workers to... 47713@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ Digital Divide 2006-02-01T20:33:14-05:00 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/2006/01/30/the_law_and_google.php Google has to obey the law. Doesn’t matter if the law is oppressive, as in China. If Google wants to do business in China, it must obey the law. Google can fight stupid laws, as in the EU Google can... 47470@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ law 2006-01-30T11:52:28-05:00 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/2006/01/21/railroaded.php NOTE: The following entry is being mirrored at the new Infrastructure Held Hostage blog. We live in an uneasy relationship with the past.Photograph courtesy RPI.) The whole past is available to us, there to teach us lessons, to give us... 46892@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ Digital Divide 2006-01-21T12:51:43-05:00 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/2006/01/18/the_video_fiction.php Video is NOT the future of the Web. (This picture, by the way, comes from a fine student project at the University of North Carolina on Webcasting rights. Go Tar Heels.) It’s part of the future, no doubt. It’s even... 46644@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ Internet 2006-01-18T15:11:42-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2006/01/15/its_the_process_stupid.php The Windows Metafile Format (.WMF) dates from 1990. Personally, I'd hate to have to take responsibility for what I did back in 1990, but I haven't made $50 billion in the last 15 years so I don't have to. The... 45385@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ Security 2006-01-15T16:55:44-05:00