overstated: "weblogs provide the ability for people to discuss content on their own terms, and services such as allmusic, amazon, cdnow, imdb allow them to contextualize their discussion. By linking to cdnow, I allow people who read about music on my site the ability hear samples of that music. By linking to amazon, a reader is connected to a set of expert knowledge, and connections to topically similar media."
Ah, this is putting words into my mouth... The power of blogs and .rss feeds. At least this is how I found this. For a very long time I've not done much surfing. You know the: off you go opening lots of pages, finding one that fits and zooming down into the breaking white horse, linking to new page after new page of good stuff. I'm using news is free new channels, and blogging it straight to several blogs (each it's own .rss feed). Fun.
But, the above link, illustrates the ease at which people are building personal pages, linking to good stuff and generally building their life long knowledge. Imagine such for businesses, for tight communities or supply chains or sales teams. This is a great, open way to work, it can also be closed.
Imagine work being fun.

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Via: radiouser: "Here's a set of mind-blowing images that go from way out in the universe to subatomic structure in Powers of Ten ." : View the Milky Way at 10 million light years from the Earth. Then move through space towards the Earth in successive orders of magnitude until you reach a tall oak tree...
Weird.

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Microsoft: HOWTO: Read the Fucking Manual: "This article demonstrates how to read the fucking manual, as popularised by the RTFM directive."
After asking a truly pathetic question, you are instructed to RTFM.

This will probably be taken down very soon. I'll put a mirror of it here for posterity.

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Welcome to Tesco, Your Glocal Superstore. How the U.K. retailer won over the world, one market at a time. [Strategy & Business]

 Source: Strategy & Business; 27/01/02; 4:45:21 pm.
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Online Journalism Review: Niches of Trust. We scoped out three sites practicing varying forms of consumer journalism and community news: The Car Place, Theme Park Insider and Consumer World. All are run by current or former print journalists who put the public interest above the bottom line. [Tomalak's Realm]
Ah, trust! Just like reputation, very important things, trust and reputation.
"The pets.coms and boo.coms have gotten all the attention in the past, but now that they're gone, I believe the collaborative community projects ö the tortoises of the dotcom world ö will be the ones that pan out in the long run." "
I agree with that. It's cluetrainy in that people need real people to talk with, not journos who spin or build news agendas for their 'readership' or advertisers. For sure, they've had years to figure the right mix, but on the web the wrong mix works too. The web is much bigger than a print news paper can dream of.

 Source: Tomalak's Realm; 26/01/02; 10:46:04 pm.
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