Interviewing Bill Gates (4)
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I still can't look Peter Rojas in the eye. In 2004, Rojas left Gizmodo, the blog he had founded at Nick Denton's Gawker Media, to start Engadget. Denton asked me to step in to blog at Gizmodo while they searched for a full-time replacement. My two-week temporary position turned into a four-week one, then a six-week one, until Denton finally realized that my special brand of cock jokes were as good as Gizmodo deserved and ...
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A great peek behind he scenes of gadget blogging circa 2005.
Jovanotti. «Sono solo una Cinquecento» (1)
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MARINELLA VENEGONI PER LA STAMPA DI MARTEDì 18 NOVEMBRE 2008 Il re del pop italiano nel 2008, si può ormai dire, è stato lui. Se Vasco ha sbaragliato negli stadi straesauriti, Jovanotti ha invece messo insieme il tour più sorprendente, divertente, spettacolare, nell’inventiva e nella tecnologia; e il suo «Safari» poi è stabile nelle zone alte della classifica da 43 settimane, con oltre 500 mila copie vendute. Il marketing discografico se ne esce ora con ...
Gates Foundation to Focus on College Education (1)
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Filed under: Big GiversThe Gates Foundation has announced it will spend several hundred million dollars over the next five years in an effort to double the current number of low-income students who graduate from college, according to The Chronicle of Philanthropy. On Tuesday at A Forum for Education in America, Bill Gates told guests, "According to our data, the number of low income and minority students graduating college ready today is 22 percent, and that ...
Profitability of spam finally measured (1)
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Researchers at UCSD have determined the return on investment for spam generated by the Storm botnet. While the per-message response rate is astonishingly low, it is sufficient for a spammer to generate a profit. At this year’s ACM Conference on Computer and Communication Security, Stefan Savage, Vern Paxson and crew presented a paper that measures [...]
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The team’s data and analysis has shown that that generating 28 sales, averaging around $100 each, of various “male-enhancement” products required 350 million separate spams. This provides a yearly revenue rate of the Storm botnet for the sale of pharmaceuticals of around $3.5 million dollars.
Google Got New Icons in Search Results (1)
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Google just got new icons in the search results. Became more sociable. Google I found 3 new icons: Move the result entry up on the page Remove a result entry Comment on a particular result entry I wonder that this is visible for other users too searching for the same keywords? Or it is just for logged in users who cand customize their preferences… Share and Enjoy:
Joystiq hands-on: Dokapon Kingdom (1)
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Filed under: Sony PlayStation 2, Nintendo Wii, Puzzle, Strategy, Competitive Gaming, CasualWhat do you get when you cross a board game with an RPG and toss in a heavy dosage of Japanese anime influence? A huge mess, LOLZ! Okay, seriously, if you mix things together right and stir liberally with the Wiimote, you'd get Dokapon Kingdom. It also doesn't hurt if you're a video game developer, like the folks at Atlus who put this together.We ...
High-Performance Knowledge Work: Practice, Practice, Practice (1)
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I talk a lot about the goal of being a "high-performance" knowledge worker, of achieving "high-performance" collaboration. I'm certainly not the only one. But what does it truly mean to be "high-performance"? (N24) One way to answer that question is to think about fields where the answer is more clear, such as sports, music, and medicine. Last year, I wrote: (N25) Medicine is a great model for what's in store for other types of KnowledgeWorkers ...
On Being "Bailed Out" (1)
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I read the following at my church this weekend. Several people requested that I put it on my blog. It's a theological response to the bail out plan:Ivan Illich was once asked, ‘What is the most revolutionary way to change society: Is it violent revolution or is it gradual reform?’ He gave a careful answer: ‘Neither. If you want to change society, then you must tell an alternative story.’In a world where every thought of ...
Microsoft's new ads: Seinfeld and Gates out, Hodgman lookalike in (1)
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Filed under: Desktops, LaptopsAccording to a report from in the New York Times, the next phase of Microsoft's latest ad campaign is set to begin -- sans Bill Gates and Jerry Seinfeld. Apparently, the new ads do away with the unusual (and somewhat ill-received) banter and "real life" experiences of the two celebrities, and trade them for an earnest embrace of... Apple's "PC" character. Apparently, one of the new ads even begins with a John ...
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