Open Sleep In, Lebanon style
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Swish! Nothing but Net!!
by Gangster Octopus
Fri Jul 25, 2008 at 09:10:08 AM PDT
Check out this Editorial cartoon in todays Sacramento Bee.
Saturday, July 26, 2008
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Friday, July 25, 2008
Open Advise, timeless
When you find yourself in danger,
When you're threatened by a stranger,
When it looks like you will take a lickin'...
There is one thing you should learn,
When there is no one else to turn to,
Caaaaaall for Super Chicken
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Open Cartoon: Cause she said so, again!
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Open Sewing
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Open Appreciation: Sysadmin Day
Here is what we do and why we do it ...
A sysadmin is a professional, who plans, worries, hacks, fixes, pushes, advocates, protects and creates good computer networks, to get you your data, to help you do work -- to bring the potential of computing ever closer to reality.If you can read this, thank your sysadmin
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Open Money Grubbers: Hasbro
ChannelWeb reports ...
Hasbro Files Suit Against Logophile's Delight Scrabulous
3:34 PM EDT Thu. Jul. 24, 2008Hasbro has filed a lawsuit against the makers of the popular Facebook application Scrabulous a Southern District of New York court. Developed by bothers Rajat Agarwalla and Jayant Agarwalla, Scrabulous quickly became one of the most popular applications on the social networking site after its launch in July 2006. In the suit, Hasbro claims that the application infringes on its intellectual property rights.In addition to the Agarwalla brothers, their company, RJ Softwares, is listed as a defendant in the case, according to Reuters.
The toy maker also sent notice to social networking site Facebook, asking the company to remove the application from its United States and Canadian versions of the site as quickly as possible. This is the second time Hasbro has asked Facebook to remove the application.
After seeing the popularity of the Scrabulous application on Facebook, Hasbro launched a Scrabble application to compete with RJ Softwares offering. Scrabulous remains a more popular application.
"We view the Scrabulous application as clear and blatant infringement of our Scrabble intellectual property, and we are pursuing this legal action in accordance with the interests of our shareholders, and the integrity of the Scrabble brand," Hasbro's General Counsel Barry Nagler said in a statement.
Hasbro owns the rights to Scrabble in North America while Mattel owns the rights to the popular board game for logophiles worldwide.
As I have observed before this is a case of Ha$bro Stupidity. If just once BIG MONEY BU$INE$$ would get a clue and make nice - everyone would do well. Instead Ha$bro will just enjoy the ire of MILLIONS of FaceBook users.
Hmmmmm, yeah, that's fair - little bruised ego and millions of ire. D'uh!!!
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Thursday, July 24, 2008
Open News Flash: John T. Scopes fined $100.00
Curious how so little has changed ...
This week marks 83 years since a jury in tiny Dayton, Tennessee convicted and fined $100 a teacher by the name of John T. Scopes, a man who had the courage and determination of spirit to challenge a state law forbidding the teaching of Darwin’s theory of evolution.... still refuted and condemned for his blaspheming views.
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Open Borders: The New Geography
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Wednesday, July 23, 2008
Open Cartoon: 'cause my sister told me to, ok?
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Open Advertisements: A Shouting Match In An Empty Room
In a nutshell advertising doesn't work in Social Media because it violates my first Law of Business:
There are no friends in business and there is no business between friends.How can an advertiser pose as a friend when their only objective is to conduct the business of opinion swaying?
Doc and David started off their "Markets are Conversations" chapter of the Cluetrain Manifesto with this prophetic observation...
When you think of the Internet, don’t think of Mack
trucks full of widgets destined for distributorships,
whizzing by countless billboards.
Think of a table for two.
- @man
If we, as advertisers, are to be successful in influencing the opinions and behaviors of consumers then our message must be molded to fit into the framework of current social media. The currency of the current social media is attention. Whether acknowledged as fame, notoriety, or popularity the consumer's object of attention is the value of the moment. The business relationship that affixes an opinion or behavior changing stimuli to the object of attention is where advertising's value is pinned.
Social Media is the intimate conversation being held at the table for two. One or the other or both of the members of this intimate party have to be willing (incentivized?) to bring an opinion or behavior changing stimuli to the table. This calls for an example ...
My little sister Sally just loves the plush cuddly Coca-Cola(TM) Polar bear cubs. I am confident that she would allow the animated little cherub cub to wink and wave and drink the occasional Coke(TM) on her MySpace/FaceBook page in return for say a free 12oz bottle of Coke(TM) per month.Sally would be even more pleased when the little animated cub displayed different behaviors - because it is not a static jpg image but a embedded feed from the PR firms servers. (Note to PR: This allows you to control dynamic content AND monitor the number of 'hits' that Sally's "Ad" is generating.)
Wouldn't Sally be pleased when, as her site becomes more popular, the little cub "gives" more and better rewards?
...so please stop SHOUTING!
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Saturday, July 19, 2008
Open Zimbabwe?
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Open Patois, redux
I have now come to learn that all Jamaicans are multilingual, and while some may not speak patois, they all understand it. The switch back and forth between patios and standard English goes back to slavery days, when the slaves were not allowed to use their native language.The rebellion against that was that the slaves simply used English when they wanted to be understood and used patois ( which has English words thrown in here and there) so passing listeners might assume the language being spoken is English.
”farrina and dem plenty questions” meaning foreign people who ask a great deal of questions.
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Open Question Mark?
I have no idea what you're talking about... so here's a link.
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Open Landmark
17 July 2008
CIO News View: Telegraph CIO on swapping Google in for Microsoft
Martin Veitch
The Telegraph Media Group’s move to Google Apps could be a landmark
. . .
In an exclusive interview with CIO magazine, TMG CIO Paul Cheesbrough told us why. Here are the highlights:“We’ve got Office 2003, Windows XP and Exchange 2003 and we started to look at the refresh cycle at the beginning of this year. We had a decision to make as to whether to sign up for a three-year enterprise agreement with Microsoft or look at something else. [As a pilot] we put 10 per cent of our 1400 user seat estate and allowed them to use Google Apps alongside their Office and Exchange infrastructure. Overwhelmingly, the feedback was positive and there would have been uproar if we had said we were turning it off. We were faced with the decision of whether we pursued the same [Microsoft] path and paid the price for that or put more and more internal solutions in the cloud.
“We made a conscious decision not to refresh any of [the Microsoft infrastructure]. We’re not going to remove it but we won’t upgrade it. Some users might use Outlook as the client but we’re moving to migrate people from Outlook onto Google by the end of the year. We’re not going to rip and replace but we’ve decided not to refresh Office 2003 and we’ll sweat that asset. Google Apps is good enough and rich enough for us to do what we need to do. Collaboration has been very powerful [in Google Apps] and as people use Google Mail and Calendar they’ll naturally stray to use Google Docs.
BRAVO!
Observation: Once the PC=Microsoft paradigm is broken I foresee a very short delay before shifting to an open source desktop alternative. (Hint: Firefox runs just as well, if not better, in Linux!)
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Open Dream
"It is called the American Dream ... because you have to be asleep to believe it."
- George Carlin
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Open Note.to.self
(Note to self: must practice more waiting.)
The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is
waiting.
-- Fran Lebowitz, "Social Studies"
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Open Blog Administrivia: Comments
I have returned to the practice of moderating comments as it appears they are being (unintentionally) misplaced.
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Thursday, July 17, 2008
Open Mugabe
Bob’s Your Uncle!
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Sunday, July 13, 2008
Open Quandry: McBama or O'Cain?
A sign of our changing political landscape ... same as it ever was!
This is rapidly becoming a sad
state of affairs.
state of affairs.
I (probably) won't vote for John McCain.
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Open Grilled Snacks
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