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CNN Obits

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Holy Shit–Did I Blow it for CNN, or am I Just Brilliant?. From The Smoking Gun Today

From Jeneane Yesterday

Yah, it’s happened before, me and my ideas. But rarely fewer than 24 hours apart.

While all news organizations prepare obituaries in advance of the deaths of famous individuals, the folks at CNN inadvertently gave the Internet-surfing public a chance to preview how the network’s web site would note the demise of Vice President Dick Cheney, Ronald Reagan, and a few other prominent figures.

The good folks on Fark apparently found the obituaries.

I’m Spooked. Too bad they didn’t have Jako.
[allied]

Weblogs as Brand

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Let’s use a weblog to build a brand….

A few people — like Joshua over at the Boston Globe — keyed into the fact that I got my job partly because of my weblog.

My number one advice to everyone around me who is laid off is “teach us something.”

Why is this so important? Well, you are a brand. That’s a Tom Peterism to be sure, but it’s true.

How do you get to be better known in the industry? Teach!

Why do I think Don Box is the geek god of all gods? Because he got up on stage, time after time after time (sometimes naked even!) and taught thousands of people all sorts of things.

Listen, if you’re laid off, you have a choice. Do I just sit on the couch and watch Oprah, or do I do something with my life?

Why not write a tip a day until you get a new job? Teach us something useful. Maybe nobody will point to it. Maybe no one will care. But, let’s say you’re laid off for three months, you’ll have published about 90 tips.

At least you’ll have something to look back on and feel proud about after you get your job. Now, compare that to watching Oprah. You haven’t left any of your knowledge here. You haven’t helped your “brand.”

[The Scobleizer Weblog]

Netscape.com Goes Away

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one more nail pounded through the dessicated corpse of Netscape….

A Reliable Informant tells me that all email addresses ending in “netscape.com” will be going away within the next week or so: everyone in the Netscape division will now be required to use AOL Mail!

Presumably the “mozilla.org” folks will be able to hang on to those addresses, but damn. As I understand it, AOL mail doesn’t even have folders, and the maximum data retention is some small number of days: after that, your mail just vaporizes. Whee!

By jwz@jwz.org. [jwz]