October 12, 2010
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KCET’s brave move
I just learned by Craig Smith that KCET, the flagship PBS TV station in Los Angeles, is “going rogue.” Specifically, Craig says, “KCET will be dropping its PBS affiliation at the end of the year. That means if you live in Santa Barbara and want to watch the PBS NewsHour, Tavis Smiley, Charlie Rose, Antiques Roadshow or even Sesame… Continue reading
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Loose Links
So here are a bunch of tabs I just cleared off my browsers: Don Marti -> business -> ad targeting: better is worse? following up on Web ad targeting: can customers get a better deal? Robert Paterson: Three Wise Men. BBC: Sick PCs should be banned from the net says Microsoft LWN: Gilmore on the… Continue reading
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On trees that don’t grow to the sky
You could build a shallow history of computing by looking only at which company looked like it was taking over the world at any given moment. First there was IBM, then Microsoft, then Google, and now there’s Facebook. None of them ever did take over the world, and no one company ever will. It was… Continue reading