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/2006/02/21/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/2006/02/17/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/2006/01/30/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/2006/01/10/a_government_action_i_like.php Too bad it's not my government. The Korean government has jawboned an agreement from that nation's mobile operators to get rid of the walled gardens and make mobile Internet service, well, Internet service. Mike over at TechDirt picked up this... 45909@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ cellular 2006-01-10T12:37:05-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2006/01/06/making_microsoft_disappear.php Ever play the old board game Risk? There were two winners at the end, and one ultimate winner. The first kid would pile all his counters up in one spot (usually Greenland, because it was big on the Risk board)... 45596@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ Consumer Electronics 2006-01-06T10:37:36-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2005/12/30/credibility_is_the_coin_of_the_realm.php I have long believed that the Internet makes us all journalists. By that I mean all of us -- as people, as companies, as institutions -- have an account called credibility. You build that account slowly, through words and actions.... 45106@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ Consulting 2005-12-30T09:38:35-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2005/12/23/family_fun_for_christmas.php Just in time for Christmas, Atlanta blogger Mingaling (right) offered me (and therefore you) access to a great family fun game for the holidays.It's actually the beta test for something called MyHeritage. It will act as a genealogical research site,... 44777@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ Internet 2005-12-23T10:15:53-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2005/12/20/the_ces_hype_machine_tunes_up.php While you're all tucking into your Christmas turkey the hype machine for the next round, the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, is already filling media inboxes. CESlong-ago replaced Comdex as the technology industry's premier trade show.Somewhere between the Internet... 44481@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ Consumer Electronics 2005-12-20T14:03:37-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2005/12/19/time_warner_dips_into_the_funny_money_again.php Like an addict going into a bar after just getting out of jail for their last bender, Time Warner is going for the Internet funny money again. This time it's Google, which has promised to rescue Time Warner's AOL investment... 43380@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ Internet 2005-12-19T12:21:23-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2005/12/16/is_this_googles_riskiest_move_yet.php Google has launched a music search service, just a week after the Music Publishers' Association launched a legal move to close lyric sites and put their owners in jail. Google has been at the forefront of the Copyright Wars and... 43249@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ Internet 2005-12-16T11:43:11-05:00