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Month: July 2003

  • Are voice and brand compatible?

    Was pointed to this Amazon blog via Scripting News. Made me realize that Amazon, like Google, really is anonymous to outsiders. I don’t know if this is deliberate, and it is common at big companies, in general (including my own, to some extent), but it’s refreshing to get any look ‘inside the curtain’ at companies…

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  • Ambrose is not all that

    Mark Johnson opines that Stephen Ambrose is the “Michael Jordan of historians“. Since his comment system appears to be broken (but isn’t, I’ve learned, so my initial post is there twice — Mark, fyi), I’ll post my response right here: Doesn’t the fact that Ambrose has done a bit of plagiarizing bother you? (one report…

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  • Catching up

    By not doing work work, I’ve caught up some with home stuff. At least, the stuff that was on my list, like updating the kids’ websites and finally upgrading to NetNewsWire from the Lite version. I’m on vacation, in name, anyway, so it should be more like this — although newborn != vacation. My sister…

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  • Learning to Learn

    Chris Sells talks about Learning to LearnI recently had to teach a tool I don’t use every day to others, and it was illuminating. (first post via NetNewsWire)[Sells link found via The Scobleizer Weblog]

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