March 2003

FM RadioStation Quick Review

March 8, 2003

This post is being written in FM RadioStation, which is a new skin, written in .NET, that rides on top of Radio. The software takes Radio’s functionality, and blocks it up into three categories — RSS news feed management/browsing, publishing, and web browsing.  It’s a very VERY eyecatching UI that gives access to much of what [...]

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Radio Silence

March 8, 2003

I’m heading for a couple of weeks of holiday with my kids.  No blogs, no email during that time.  Just relaxation, fun and sun.  When I get back, the world may be a different place.  The imminent war we’ve all been following for months may have started, and who knows what might be happening. See [...]

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March 6, 2003

I’ve had several mails in the last few days asking about what to expect in Microsoft job interviews.  Here are some general points that might help out you job seekers… You will be asked a lot of questions.  Sometimes the answer isn’t “the answer”.  Rather it’s the way that you solve the problem.  So, for instance, a [...]

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March 5, 2003

Scripting News: It’s true it’s true — the Jupiter people asked me to do the opening keynote at their weblog conference, June 9-10 in Boston, and of course I accepted. I’m going to help them put together a program, after I complete my drive cross-country. Let’s make the most out of this and of course [...]

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March 4, 2003

Blogging for fun and profit. Some of my thoughts on weblogs for corporate IT users. “If I were remaking The Graduate today, with Dustin Hoffman’s… Michael Gartenberg (yes, the Michael Gartenberg) on the topic of weblogging as a corporate information tool.  I’ve been thinking about setting up a blog in my office for weeks now.  [...]

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March 3, 2003

Rick Mercer’s apology for Carolyn Parrish on behalf of all Canadians.  Most of the time I find Rick very funny, but at the moment I’m having trouble with his humour.  His whole “Talking with Americans” shtick leaves me cold.  I enjoy his self-deprecating humour, but his mean spirited efforts to make others look stupid remind [...]

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March 2, 2003

A couple days back I received this short report from Venture Communications on “Synchronized Marketing”.  The notion of Synchronized Marketing is to extend Integrated Marketing to the whole organization — what the academics have been telling us for years, which is that the market needs to drive the organization.  A bit of a wake-up call [...]

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