http://mooreslore.corante.com/ en-us dana@a-clue.com 2006-02-15T12:30:34-05:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2006/02/15/show_trial.php During Mao's Cultural Revolution, show trials were used to cover-up the evils of the regime. Innocent parties were brought in, tried without justice, then either killed or sent to "re-education" camps. The U.S. House held its own version of such... 48648@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ Politics 2006-02-15T12:30:34-05:00 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/2006/02/10/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/2006/02/05/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/2006/01/30/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/2006/01/24/a_curious_theory_of_conservatism.php In his latest diatribe against a la carte cable pricing Capitalist Tool Adam Thierer of the "Progress and Freedom Foundation" claims that arguments by his opponents in this debate represent "a curious theory of conservatism." I couldn't let that go... 46992@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ Economics 2006-01-24T14:29:44-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2006/01/24/4_years_for_spammer_how_much_for_his_enablers.php California spammer Jeanson James Ancheta, who turns out to be a 20-year old kid, has pled guilty to computer misuse and fraud charges which should draw him a four-year sentence. Good. Ancheta is the first to be convicted of creating... 46990@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ spam 2006-01-24T12:57:12-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2006/01/19/murder_the_beloved_country.php One reason I haven't been around much lately is I have been (finally) reading Salman Rushdie's latest 2005 1997classic Shalimar the Clown. Like all great writers Rushdie tends to be ahead of his time, sometimes far ahead. Just as his... 46726@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ fun stuff 2006-01-19T14:38:28-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2006/01/04/file_hoarding_10_proves_bad_business.php The AP had a headline yestoday that Luddites and the RIAA will love. "File-Sharing Barons Face Day of Reckoning." The story is that old file-sharing sites are closing up shop. The RIAA beat them. But what really beat these shops... 45320@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ Internet 2006-01-04T10:32:58-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2005/12/16/this_weeks_clue_slouching_toward_armageddon.php This week's issue of A-Clue.Com is my annual Year in Review essay. You're invited to join the A-Clue.Com community by clicking this link. Always free. There are many forms of depression. There's the economic kind. There's the personal kind. There's... 43247@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ History 2005-12-16T10:54:55-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2005/12/12/this_just_in_people_can_be_bad.php Let's review the results of Wikipedia-gate: The perpetrator was found in less than a week. The item in question has been changed. The change has gotten a lot more publicity than the original mistake -- try getting that out of... 40233@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ Internet 2005-12-12T12:13:00-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2005/11/24/the_aljazeerah_story.php I don't know, frankly, whether President Bush sought to bomb Qatar in order to destroy al-Jazeerah TV. But the way this story has been reported, and not reported, makes me question just how freedom-loving the U.S. and Britain really are.... 38569@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ Journalism 2005-11-24T09:03:54-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2005/11/15/sonys_crocodile_tears.php Sony says it's (sort of) sorry. They say they'll take the CDs back (although they don't say how they will find the things). They say they won't do that again, exactly, but might do something close to it. Too late.... 38058@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ Copyright 2005-11-15T22:04:30-05:00