New Media Expo Founder Thinking About Quitting The Tradeshow Business (2)
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Tim Bourquin, creator of the New Media Expo, is thinking about quitting the tradeshow business. He cites five reasons - reasons that he feels “threaten the very industry itself”: High speed Internet costs. Nearly all convention centers have long-term, exclusive agreements in place with high speed Internet providers and the prices they are charging are ludicrous. Drayage. Drayage is the fee to have your booth shipment taken from the convention center dock at the back ...
Hacker Uncovers Chinese Olympic Fraud (22)
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SkeptOlympics writes "A new chapter in the ongoing controversy surrounding China's women's gymnastics team opened today, as search engine hacker stryde.hax found surviving copies of official registration documents issued by China's General Administration of Sport of China. The incriminating documents, expunged by censors from the official site and from Google's document cache, still appear in the document translation cache of Chinese search giant Baidu, here and here, showing the age of one of China's gold ...
Shorter Daily Kos (2)
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The nutroots are really going extra crazy over that Rick Warren interview. They thought McCain did so well that he must have cheated. They also think his story about the cross in the sand is so amazing it has to not be true. If you're wondering what argument the Kwazy Kos Kids have had on those issues over the past couple days, Keith Olbermann sums them up succinctly: Tip for the nutroots: McCain never mentions ...
No, Tim. We’re Not As Bad As The New York Times (9)
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Tim O’Reilly is tearing his hair out because he thinks that we link too much to CrunchBase, our startup database. He levels the unforgivable charge of self-linking at us, and puts us in the same company as the New York Times (which in this case is not a good thing). In his post (which I link to above), he makes the following connection between how we link to Crunchbase and how the New York Times ...
Don’t cry for journalists… (23)
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Look at this photo from the Olympics. I count about 75 photographers, each decked out with a $9,000 (or more expensive) camera and lens (and most of them are carrying several cameras). This is in a year when tons of journalists are getting laid off. This is in a year when there are tons of stories around the world that aren’t getting reported on. Could we take half of those photographers and send them to ...
Can We Please Define Cloud Computing? (9)
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Recently, I’ve been seeing a lot of articles pop up on my feeds and in my reading lists talking about the evils of cloud computing and several damnations of the term as being strictly something from the marketing department. For some reason surpassing understanding, the term has become the next “skunk drunk kool-aid” whipping boy, and many folks seem to want to inflate their credibility by attempting to deflate the cycle of hype before it ...
In the First Person (4)
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Someone would have to be extremely cold-hearted not to be moved by some of the reports that have been appearing lately, describing the difficulties people are facing as they try to cope with the downturn in housing and the economy and the surge in food and gasoline prices. Personally, I find the first-person accounts to be the most heart-rending, because anyone with any pride at all knows how hard it is for people to open ...
