Archive for May, 2005
Kansas City Royals Hire Buddy Bell
What, a post not involving technology*?
So the worst team in baseball (13-37) reaches out to find a manager with big league experience, Buddy Bell. Bell was most recently the bench coach for the Indians and has had stints as manager for Detroit in 96-98 and Colorado 2000-02, with an overall coaching record of 345-462 (see […]
Posted: May 31st, 2005 under Baseball.
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The End is Near for Fast Company
According to the New York Times, the end is near for Fast Company magazine.
WHEN the Meredith Corporation announced its purchase of Gruner & Jahr’s women’s magazines last Tuesday, Meredith said that Gruner’s business magazines, Fast Company and Inc., were not “material” to the sale. What that means is that two magazines that sold for more […]
Posted: May 31st, 2005 under Business.
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My Poor, Lonely iPod
I went looking for my original iPod (1st generation - 5GB model) today. I realized this morning that ever since I received my 1GB iPod Shuffle in January, I’ve only used the original iPod on a couple of occasions - mainly in the car, in conjunction with the iTrip.
Lately, it seems the Shuffle is infinitely […]
Posted: May 29th, 2005 under Apple.
Comments: 1
Google AdSense for Feeds
The news broke a couple weeks ago about Google beta testing AdSense for Feeds (RSS,Atom, etc.). Lately, I’ve refrained from mentioning minor updates to Google’s AdSense product, simply because they are constantly running tests of new features, and there really hasn’t been anything ground-breaking to announce.
I’m only mentioning Adsense for Feeds while it is still […]
Posted: May 29th, 2005 under Technology.
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2GB and 4GB iPod Shuffles Coming?
iPod News Network is reporting that 2GB and 4GB iPod Shuffles are coming this summer.
That is nice, but I think usability would have to be called into question at those storage capacities unless they figure that most Shuffle users are taking advantage of the dual purpose: USB Flash Drive/MP3 Player. The possibility of getting nailed […]
Posted: May 27th, 2005 under Apple.
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The Future of Content Management
A simple email from someone who found my site this past week and asked me how I liked WordPress turned into an engaging conversation on the future of content management. I’ll respect his wishes to remain anonymous at this time regarding our discussion, but we came to some general conclusions:
1. With the amount of […]
Posted: May 27th, 2005 under Technology.
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