How Four Blogs Dealt a Blow to CBS’s Credibility

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Intel dealt blow by high

Intel dealt blow by high 06/21/2004 07:05 PM
Techzonez Jun 21 2004 11:23PM GMT

SCO Linux crusade dealt another blow

SCO Linux crusade dealt another blow 05/06/2004 10:03 AM

RIAA Dealt Blow by Court of Appeals

RIAA Dealt Blow by Court of Appeals 12/19/2003 06:19 PM
Techfocus Dec 19 2003 4:43PM ET

Microsoft Dealt a Blow in Lindows Case
(PC World)

Microsoft Dealt a Blow in Lindows Case
(PC World) 02/11/2004 01:51 PM
PC World - Trial delayed again, as court considers Windows trademark.

Intel dealt blow by high court in EU
probe

Intel dealt blow by high court in EU
probe 06/21/2004 12:21 PM
European regulators can be privy to chipmaker's confidential documents in antitrust investigation.

VeriSign is dealt another legal blow in
ICANN suit

VeriSign is dealt another legal blow in
ICANN suit 08/27/2004 05:20 PM
A federal judge dismissed VeriSign's antitrust claims against the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, dealing another setback to the company in its ongoing legal battle against the Internet's technical coordinating body.

U.S. Stabilization Efforts Dealt Blow by
Suicide Car Bomb

U.S. Stabilization Efforts Dealt Blow by
Suicide Car Bomb 05/17/2004 10:28 AM
Izzadine Saleem was the second member of the American-appointed council to be assassinated.

VeriSign dealt another legal blow in
ICANN suit

VeriSign dealt another legal blow in
ICANN suit 08/31/2004 01:29 PM
Computer Weekly Aug 31 2004 4:30PM GMT

Anti-Piracy Campaign Dealt Major Blow

Anti-Piracy Campaign Dealt Major Blow 12/22/2003 04:06 PM
theWHIR Dec 22 2003 3:03PM ET

Stabilization Efforts Dealt Blow by
Suicide Car Bomb Attack

Stabilization Efforts Dealt Blow by
Suicide Car Bomb Attack 05/17/2004 07:30 AM
Izzadine Saleem was in a convoy of five vehicles, and the car carrying the bomb was adjacent to the council chief's car when it exploded.

Update: VeriSign dealt another legal
blow in ICANN suit

Update: VeriSign dealt another legal
blow in ICANN suit 08/27/2004 01:27 PM
VeriSign Inc. lost another round in its battle against the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) on Thursday when a U.S. federal judge dismissed the company's antitrust claims, filed in an amended complaint.

Accounting Tweak Another Blow to Red
Hat's Credibility

Accounting Tweak Another Blow to Red
Hat's Credibility 07/13/2004 03:41 PM
TheStreet.com Jul 13 2004 7:24PM GMT

Another ’honor’ victim:
Daughter, raped by brothers, killed by
mother

Another ’honor’ victim:
Daughter, raped by brothers, killed by
mother 11/18/2003 10:21 AM
practical approach to the 'family honor" business .. should read this horrifying story

azcentral.com/news/articles/1114HonorKilling14-ON.html
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’The War Has Started’ --
Allied troops in firefight in/near Basra

’The War Has Started’ --
Allied troops in firefight in/near Basra 03/19/2003 10:46 PM
article at This Is London, .. has already begun .. Evening Standard .. More Shots Fired .. It Starts .. First

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What’s in Howard Dean’s
Secret Vermont Files?

What’s in Howard Dean’s
Secret Vermont Files? 12/02/2003 01:54 AM
Dr. Dean in High Gear .. unlikely admirer: .. MSNBC Reports: .. great lengths .. (*)

msnbc.com/news/999347.asp
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Blow tempests, blow

Blow tempests, blow 06/17/2005 04:29 PM
CARtoday.com Jun 17 2005 7:43PM GMT

419 Scam Blow-by-Blow

419 Scam Blow-by-Blow 07/09/2004 03:07 PM

SCO dealt another setback while IBM goes
for the jugular

SCO dealt another setback while IBM goes
for the jugular 04/09/2004 04:13 PM
SCO suffered a defeat in a Delaware court as a judge denied their motion to dismiss Red Hat's lawsuit against them. Meanwhile, IBM has filed for a declaratory judgment in SCO's lawsuit against them.

Whiz kids dealt lesson

Whiz kids dealt lesson 08/19/2004 12:35 AM
USA Today Aug 19 2004 4:36AM GMT

Microsoft's war on GPL dealt patent
setback

Microsoft's war on GPL dealt patent
setback 06/14/2004 02:48 PM
The Register Jun 14 2004 6:48PM GMT

'Quickie' truancy fines dealt out

'Quickie' truancy fines dealt out 06/17/2004 03:23 AM
Forty sets of parents in England have been sent the first of the new £50 spot fines for their children's truancy.

Oracle dealt key setback on hostile bid
(SiliconValley.com)

Oracle dealt key setback on hostile bid
(SiliconValley.com) 02/11/2004 09:28 AM
SiliconValley.com - The staff of the Justice Department has recommended that the agency block Oracle's $9.4 billion hostile bid for PeopleSoft on antitrust grounds, a decision that could derail Oracle's eight-month attempt to buy its rival.

Microsoft e-mail proposal dealt setback

Microsoft e-mail proposal dealt setback 09/13/2004 06:46 PM
The Internet Engineering Task Force decides that the software giant's gift horse could be a Trojan horse.

Woosh Goes The Credibility

Woosh Goes The Credibility 06/14/2004 12:37 AM
We think we've finally found why every computer in every film ever made features a G5 and PowerBook: the writers use 'em. Macs can be found all over Hollywood. "It may be a bit more expensive... but you can't beat Apple for ease of use and an elegant human interface." By Computerworld New Zealand (via MyAppleMenu)

Authenticity vs. credibility

Authenticity vs. credibility 08/17/2004 07:09 PM
Evelyn Rodriguez usefully distinguishes authentic voice from credible voice. I still think, however, that the concept of authenticity is a failed attempt to express something important. We've gotten the terms of the equation wrong so no concept quite fits. That's why we have so much trouble defining "authenticity" or even agreeing on it. BTW, Evelyn here links to Tom Peters' candid talk about what's gone wrong with his life and the path he's taking to make it right. It won't be everyone's path, but, then, what is?...

The Bush Credibility Gap

The Bush Credibility Gap 03/11/2003 11:49 AM
All I can say is, it's about damn time we saw something like this from the Democrats. "The Bush Credibility...

SES Boston : Credibility

SES Boston : Credibility 03/11/2003 01:22 AM
"This was a very different kind of SEM/SEO conference."

NY Times' WMD Credibility Gap

NY Times' WMD Credibility Gap 05/30/2004 11:55 AM

The NY Times' ombudsman, Daniel Okrent, has written an appropriately sca thing assessment of the newspaper's reporting and editing failures leading up to the Iraq war. Last week, the Times posted this welcome but incomplete "From the Editors" self-critique of its coverage. Okrent says:

The editors' note to readers will have served its apparent function only if it launches a new round of examination and investigation. I don't mean further acts of contrition or garment-rending, but a series of aggressively reported stories detailing the misinformation, disinformation and suspect analysis that led virtually the entire world to believe Hussein had W.M.D. at his disposal. No one can deny that this was a drama in which The Times played a role. On Friday, May 21, a front-page article by David E. Sanger ("A Seat of Honor Lost to Open Political Warfare") elegantly characterized Chalabi as "a man who, in lunches with politicians, secret sessions with intelligence chiefs and frequent conversations with reporters from Foggy Bottom to London's Mayfair, worked furiously to plot Mr. Hussein's fall." The words "from The Times, among other publications" would have fit nicely after "reporters" in that sentence. The aggressive journalism that I long for, and that the paper owes both its readers and its own self-respect, would reveal not just the tactics of those who promoted the W.M.D. stories, but how The Times itself was used to further their cunning campaign.

CBS's Credibility Gap

CBS's Credibility Gap 09/11/2004 10:54 AM
I'm sorry to see CBS News stonewalling this way. There are still far, far more questions than trustworthy answers about the purported Bush National Guard documents. What a mess, and CBS -- which dismisses even the possibility of an internal investigation -- isn't helping to clean it up.

Improving online credibility

Improving online credibility 07/29/2004 12:59 AM

If you've browsed Amazon's product reviews recently you may have noticed an interesting new feature: Badges< /a>, little icons displayed below certain people's names. This isn't a new idea by any means - many online communities use special icons as rewards for members who make valuable contributions (SitePoint is a good example). What's interesting about Amazon's badges is that one of them is "Real Name". Amazon's Real Names FAQ explains the badge, and includes the following:

Why is Amazon.com encouraging the use of Real Names?

In general, we believe that a community in which people use their Real Names will ultimately have higher quality content, since an author willing to sign his or her real-world name on a piece of content is essentially saying "With my real-world identity, I stand by what I have written here."

Real names certainly add credibility to online discussion: I for one find it much easier to trust information if the author appears to have signed their real name to it. The challenge is verifying that the name is accurate, and Amazon's solution is so simple-but-smart that I kicked myself: they match the name against the user's credit card details. Genius.

I wouldn't be surprised to see this trick taking on a key role in the field of online identity management - provided Amazon's patent lawyers don't get there first.

How Can You Boost Your Web Site's
Credibility?

How Can You Boost Your Web Site's
Credibility? 09/27/2002 03:14 AM

Microsoft Irony and Credibility

Microsoft Irony and Credibility 01/28/2003 03:40 PM
While Microsoft ramped up their "trustworthy computing" initiative, there is the slight problem of credibility. Once again, Microsofts own servers were infected with the lastest virus.

On the Credibility of The New York Times

On the Credibility of The New York Times 03/14/2005 05:05 PM

The New York Times is certainly far from perfect, but their recent scandals — significant though they are — don’t reduce them to the level of Think Secret.

Now on eBay - MIW's credibility!

Now on eBay - MIW's credibility! 05/03/2004 06:16 PM
non-existent items .. REALLY CHEAP! .. pay a dollar

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What’s New in NetNewsWire 1.0.7

What’s New in NetNewsWire 1.0.7 12/23/2003 04:58 AM
NetNewsWire

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But I can tell that it’s about the
same thing

But I can tell that it’s about the
same thing 03/14/2005 04:38 PM
One of the common feature requests we get for NetNewsWire is to handle this situation:

Say you’re subscribed to several Mac news feeds. Then one day Microsoft updates Office for Macintosh, and each feed includes a news item about it, so you have several news items about it.

You only need to read that particular piece of news once. So why not make it so NetNewsWire detects that these are all about the same thing, and mark them as read automatically once you read the first one?

Here’s why:

Consider these two news items, ripped from today’s headlines...

MacMinute

Title: Microsoft Office 2004 update released
Description: Microsoft's Macintosh Business Unit (Mac BU) has posted Office 2004 for Mac Update 11.1.1, which includes improvements to Excel add-in calculation, increased PowerPoint and Word 2004 stability, additional support for device drivers and enhanced appearance of imported graphics...
Link: http://www.macminute.com/2005/03/07/office-2004/

MacCentral

Title: Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac updated to 11.1.1
Description: Microsoft Corp.'s Mac Business Unit (Mac BU) on Monday announced the release of Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac Update 11.1.1. The update includes improvements to Excel add-in calculation, improves stability for PowerPoint and Word, adds support for new device drivers and improves the appearance of imported graphics.
Link: http://www.macworld.com/news/2005/03/07/office/index.php?lsrc=mcrss-03 05

They’re about the same thing

Both items are obviously about the same thing. You can tell by looking, instantly, no thought required.

But computers aren’t that smart. How does a piece of software know that these two are about the same thing?

The titles, descriptions, and links are different.

There are many of the same words—but you really don’t want your aggregator to start making guesses here. Imagine two completely different stories, but each one has “Apple iTunes” in the title. “Songs on Apple iTunes Music Store now free” and “Apple iTunes sold to SixApart” are not the same piece of news.

What’s the solution?

Artificial intelligence would be helpful here. But we don’t have that.

One possibility would be a new kind of link element—an external link element that is meant to identify the source of the story. For instance, if you go to the full version of the above example news items, both of the stories include a link to the same page on the Microsoft site, a page about this update to Office.

Were that link to be included in the feed, with that item, as a special link-to-the-source link, then an aggregator could know that the news items were really about the same thing.

One nice thing about this is that it’s likely that the folks at MacMinute and MacCentral would pick the same link. They wouldn’t have to coordinate, it would just work. (At least in this example. It wouldn’t always be so clear-cut.)

The bad thing about this idea is the potential for abuse—or just plain laziness. What if people make the link-to-the-source link just a link to http://apple.com/ for any story about Apple—you’d end up with stories that are not about the same thing being marked as read. Nuts.

Another problem is that you still might miss something interesting. Say MacX posted a basic news report, but MacY posted a lengthy piece with interviews and and all kinds of goodies. You wouldn’t want to miss MacY’s report—but you would, since it was marked as read when you read MacX’s news item.

In other words, I don’t know what the solution is, but it’s worth thinking about.

Cat on a Mac, we’ve got snow

Cat on a Mac, we’ve got snow 01/07/2004 03:11 PM
Sheila posted some pictures: Papa finds a new place to sleep; il neige.

Welcome to the ‘new’ Web,
same as the ‘old’ Web

Welcome to the ‘new’ Web,
same as the ‘old’ Web 04/09/2004 03:59 PM
CNN on newsreaders: “Hang on to your hats boys and girls, because your experience of the World Wide Web is about to change, possibly for the first time since Mosaic...”

I don’t care how you

I don’t care how you 04/09/2004 04:10 PM
I don’t care how you read my content; I just want you to read my content. If you want to read on the web, fine. If you want to read it through email, fine. If you want to read it through RSS, fine. It doesn't matter! I'm not here to sell a delivery vehicle; I'm just here to tell people, “Hey, this is what’s going on in the world.” When syndication just so happens to be one of those ways, a stronger way, a better way, of getting information out there, then, yeah, I’m going to have to proselytize because no one else is really doing it. They’re getting caught up in the politics or they’re just talking about RSS as kind of, like, you know “Oh, well, we’re doing this,” but they’re not really evangelizing it, and there are very few RSS evangelists out there....
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