From the monthly archives:

November 2005

Amazon Adds Tagging to Product Data

by Ron Bieber November 14, 2005 Remaindered

Hey, look at this — Amazon is adding user tagging to product data. There is also an article on news.com.

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Steve Dahl Show Podcast

by Ron Bieber November 14, 2005 General

Steve Dahl says in his Weblog entry from November 11 that his show will be available as a podcast. This Steve Dahl Show Podcast page on WCKG’s website confirms it.

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Readers clear the air with broadcast beefs

by Ron Bieber November 14, 2005 General

Robert Feder: Readers clear the air with broadcast beefs – Readers letters, including some from those who are annoyed with Howard Sterns replacement choice in Chicago.

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Intelligent reaction, not intelligent design | Between the Lines

by Ron Bieber November 14, 2005 Remaindered

Intelligent reaction, not intelligent design – I first heard the term Intelligent Reaction on a Gillmor Gang podcast. I like the ideas presented behind this concept of software development.

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The Long Tail: Is Jack FM the Long Tail of radio?

by Ron Bieber November 14, 2005 Remaindered

The Long Tail: Is Jack FM the Long Tail of radio? – 104.3 is The Jack in Chicago. Jonna got me listening to it over the weekend and I have to say, I like the ‘no format’ format.

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Microsoft Lauds ‘Scrum’ Method for Software Projects

by Ron Bieber November 14, 2005 Remaindered

Microsoft Lauds ‘Scrum’ Method for Software Projects – pretty good endorsement of Scrum. Its interesting to read about a methodology change in an organization as big as Microsoft.

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How Microsoft Can Compete Against Open Source

by Ron Bieber November 13, 2005 Business / Leadership

Scott Johnson, a cofounder of Feedster.com writes an open letter to Robert Scoble articulating his ideas on How Microsoft Can Compete Against Open Source. Interesting read and makes a lot of sense.

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Podtrac Launches First Advertising Infrastructure and Sales Service for the Podcasting Market

by Ron Bieber November 11, 2005 podcasting

Podtrac Launches First Advertising Infrastructure and Sales Service for the Podcasting Market

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TIME.com: The PodFather: Part One — Sep. 19, 2005

by Ron Bieber November 11, 2005 podcasting

TIME.com: The PodFather: Part One — Sep. 19, 2005

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Audible Brings Measurement to Podcasting

by Ron Bieber November 11, 2005 podcasting

Audible Brings Measurement to Podcasting

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Kelsi in Marching Band

by Ron Bieber November 11, 2005 Photography

Photo by Kelsi Kelsi all decked out for marching band.

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Bieber Labs Servers circa 2001

by Ron Bieber November 10, 2005 Photography

Photo by rbieber circa 2001-2002 ‘Elmo’ and ‘Bert’. My machine is on my desk to the right of these (named ‘Grover’). I went through a phase where all machines were named after Sesame Street characters. I stopped just before having to use Snuffleupagus. Going through old pictures I found this one of the old ‘labs’ [...]

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Metal Council Convenes To Discuss ‘Metal Hand Sign’ Abuse

by Ron Bieber November 9, 2005 Music

Metal Council Convenes To Discuss ‘Metal Hand Sign’ Abuse. I knew this would happen eventually – a fine piece of reporting from The Onion.

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Creating Passionate Users: When clients (and bosses) go bad…

by Ron Bieber November 9, 2005 Business / Leadership

Creating Passionate Users: When clients (and bosses) go bad… – Excellent article on overtime and how companies should put employees first. Primary point in this one, “If we want to make happy users, we have to be happy. Our employers/managers/clients need to accept that, and act accordingly.” – Must read for Managers.

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If You Want To Lead, Blog

by Ron Bieber November 9, 2005 General

If You Want To Lead, Blog – Suns COO writes an article for the Harvard Business Review on blogging. This article sums it up.

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Police Called In To Investigate Sony

by Ron Bieber November 8, 2005 Remaindered

Police Called In To Investigate Sony – smarthouse.com.au

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Sony: Rootkits Are Okay, Because No One Knows What They Are

by Ron Bieber November 8, 2005 Remaindered

Sony: Rootkits Are Okay, Because No One Knows What They Are – Techdirt

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Gillmor Gang – User Driven Innovation

by Ron Bieber November 8, 2005 podcasting

The latest Gillmor Gang podcast talks about a concept called “User Driven Innovation” using Google and other vendors who have opened up their API’s as an example of this concept. The main subject of the podcast is disruption, of which this is just a part. User Driven Innovation is the opening of service API’s to [...]

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Aardvark’d: 12 Weeks with Geeks

by Ron Bieber November 8, 2005 Feature Films

Joel Spolsky of Joel on Software fame has announced the completion of the movie Aardvark’d: 12 Weeks with Geeks, a documentary chronicling the development of a software product called Aardvark. DVD preorders are being taken now for a ship date of December 1. The trailer is available on the project page and I have to [...]

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Jesus of the Week

by Ron Bieber November 8, 2005 General

I found this through a link on kottke.org to the 100 Greatest Internet Moments but thought it deserved a link of its own, so here we are. Ladies and Gentlemen, the Jesus of the Week page.

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