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Money and Sex: Two Great Tastes That
Taste Great Together!

Money and Sex: Two Great Tastes That
Taste Great Together! 06/19/2004 03:13 PM
"Don't equate happiness with money"... "Exercise Regularly"... "Have Sex"...
Advice from a German investment bank on how to enjoy life. Taking CitiBank's cynical "Live Richly" ad campaign a step farther?
obilgatory joke "I remember when the bank only gave away free toasters..."
In other news, A bank in India is targeting "sex workers" as new customers,
Insert Sperm Bank Joke Here. heh heh heh... he said "Insert Sperm"...

Tastes Great! Less Filling!

Tastes Great! Less Filling! 05/24/2004 12:16 AM

There's an interesting dialogue going on between Robert Scoble and John Dowdell regarding whether RSS feeds should be full-text or excerpts only. I tend to like full feeds, even on my Treo, but to me it's a personal choice and everyone is different. That's why I think every site that is willing to offer a full feed should also consider providing an abridged feed. That way, the user can pick the one she finds most useful (or, in some cases both, depending on how she's reading it at any given time).

For libraries, this is really a no-brainer, especially if you're using Movable Type. Your default index.rdf feed is an excerpt, so all you need to do is create a new file, name it something else (like index.xml or rss.xml), and change "MTEntryExcerpt" to "MTEntryBody" in the code. Just change that one word, and you're in business.

Yes, it really is that simple. Please consider doing it.

Oh, and a personal plea to librarian bloggers - please consider adding a full text feed for your own site!

Empty Twinkies Get New Filling

Empty Twinkies Get New Filling 09/23/2004 11:27 AM
Interstate Bakeries finally gives up and files Chapter 11.

Filling in the DTD Gaps with Schematron

Filling in the DTD Gaps with Schematron 05/23/2002 10:39 PM

Sun, Microsoft Filling in Details

Sun, Microsoft Filling in Details 04/09/2004 05:24 PM
The companies have reached a settlement, but the hard work of interoperability still lies ahead.

May I see some ID? Form-filling software

May I see some ID? Form-filling software 05/23/2004 10:29 PM
ZDNet May 24 2004 0:56AM GMT

Commentary: Filling a void for RFID

Commentary: Filling a void for RFID 02/19/2004 02:17 PM
Companies experimenting with radio frequency identification tags and readers are learning that they need new software to get the most out of their efforts.

ProNet: Filling up the Piggy Bank

ProNet: Filling up the Piggy Bank 06/17/2005 02:10 PM
If the earlier ProNet post on new web apps like MIT's Piggy Bank caught your eye, you'll want to check out semantic weblog posts with Movable Type. The post includes templates you can use in your Movable Type installation to...

Boston's Bloggers, Filling In the
Margins (washingtonpost.com)

Boston's Bloggers, Filling In the
Margins (washingtonpost.com) 07/26/2004 07:22 AM
Washington Post .. Howard Kurtz

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Filling a Need (and a Tooth) in
America's Poorest Pockets

Filling a Need (and a Tooth) in
America's Poorest Pockets 04/12/2005 03:31 AM
According to most authorities on oral health, dental care for Americans has not improved since a recent surgeon general's report, and there are many indications that it is getting worse.

Teacher's aides filling growing gap
(USATODAY.com)

Teacher's aides filling growing gap
(USATODAY.com) 07/14/2004 06:45 AM
USATODAY.com - LINTHICUM, Md. - Gather a group of teacher's aides together and ask if they've ever had to take over a classroom. Then stand back.

HTML Tip: Filling In Colored Table Cells

HTML Tip: Filling In Colored Table Cells 11/30/2002 12:30 AM
Net Mechanic Nov 29 2002 11:13PM ET

Shark Tank: Filling a hole where the
rain gets in

Shark Tank: Filling a hole where the
rain gets in 05/08/2004 01:18 PM
This server room at this large government facility is the size of a big warehouse, and its roof is in pretty bad shape. But why fix it during the summer? After all, it's not raining then.

Your great-great-grandmother didn’t
have to surrender her children. What
happened?

Your great-great-grandmother didn’t
have to surrender her children. What
happened? 04/01/2005 11:00 AM
The Underground History of American Education
You aren’t compelled to loan your car to anyone who wants it, but you are compelled to surrender your school-age child to strangers who process children for a livelihood.... If I demanded you give up your television to an anonymous, itinerant repairman who needed work you’d think I was crazy; if I came with a policeman who forced you to pay that repairman even after he broke your set, you would be outraged. Why are you so docile when you give up your child to a government agent called a schoolteacher?

Govt mulls compulsory online form
filling

Govt mulls compulsory online form
filling 02/16/2004 10:31 AM
How do we save £15bn?

Looking for your feedback on Web Site
Content Management - Please provide us
with your thoughts by filling out this
survey

Looking for your feedback on Web Site
Content Management - Please provide us
with your thoughts by filling out this
survey 04/01/2005 06:41 AM

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Great-Great-Grandmother Shoots Robber
(AP)

Great-Great-Grandmother Shoots Robber
(AP) 04/15/2005 04:32 PM
AP - A man accused of bursting into a convenience store demanding money was in the hospital Friday — shot, authorities said, by the great-great-grandmother working behind the counter.

SQL Server forum stories - How to delete
large amounts of records without filling
trans log?

SQL Server forum stories - How to delete
large amounts of records without filling
trans log? 09/26/2004 09:24 AM

"Howard Dean: "You Can Say That It's
Great That Saddam Is Gone And I'm Sure
That A Lot Of Iraqis Feel It Is Great
That Saddam Is Gone. But A Lot Of Them
Gave Their Lives. And Their Living
Standard Is A Whole Lot Worse Now Than
It Was Before.""

"Howard Dean: "You Can Say That It's
Great That Saddam Is Gone And I'm Sure
That A Lot Of Iraqis Feel It Is Great
That Saddam Is Gone. But A Lot Of Them
Gave Their Lives. And Their Living
Standard Is A Whole Lot Worse Now Than
It Was Before."" 01/26/2004 03:28 AM

frederick-the-great.com –
http://frederick-the-great.com/
announced Grand Opening the Computing
and Home Office store.

frederick-the-great.com –
http://frederick-the-great.com/
announced Grand Opening the Computing
and Home Office store. 09/10/2004 02:11 AM
frederick-the-great.com – http://frederick-the-great.com/ announced Grand Opening the Computing and Home Office store. Frederick The Great has thousands of electronics and home office supplies which fit your need and budget. [PRWEB Sep 10, 2004]

Great Wall Getting Less Great (Reuters)

Great Wall Getting Less Great (Reuters) 01/26/2004 10:19 AM
Reuters - The Great Wall of China is shrinking as tourism and development take their toll on one of the world's most famous monuments, state media said Monday.

Great Hacker != Great Hire

Great Hacker != Great Hire 08/05/2004 03:49 AM
Great Hacker != Great Hire .. Eric Sink

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Great Power, Great Restraint...

Great Power, Great Restraint... 08/05/2004 02:26 PM
Anakin learns that the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the one in Star Wars: Republic #67, released this week. Randy Stradley, Brandon Badeaux, and Brad Anderson tell a tale that balances power and restraint as Anakin and Obi-Wan face off against the Separatist forces on the planet Zaadja, while Master Tohno infiltrates the Geonosian droid factory on a demolition mission she is not expected to survive. Ever wonder why the Mandalorians are nowhere to be seen in the Clone Wars? The answer may lie in this issue! All under a cover by Brian Ching. You can check out an online preview here< /a>.

"Great Hacker != Great Hire"

"Great Hacker != Great Hire" 08/06/2004 09:45 AM

Hostetler Great Lakes Capitol, Inc.,
located in the Great Lakes region of
lower Michigan, just announced plans to
build an enormous organization with
Freelife International, using the
Himalayan Goji Juice as the leading
product.

Hostetler Great Lakes Capitol, Inc.,
located in the Great Lakes region of
lower Michigan, just announced plans to
build an enormous organization with
Freelife International, using the
Himalayan Goji Juice as the leading
product. 07/26/2004 02:14 AM
David Hostetler, with a Master’s degree in Marketing, has been a successful marketer on and off the Internet since 1977. Having built several other successful businesses in the past, he is now well on the way to building a million-dollar business and has chosen Himalayan Goji Juice and Freelife International as the leading product. Do you want to come along? He is looking for entrepreneurs who want to team up with millionaire marketers under a specialized and unique Internet marketing system. If you are a marketer/MLM distributor and think you deserve more, now is the time and this is the place. Don't wait for your destiny... make it happen! [PRWEB Jul 26, 2004]

A taste of 3G

A taste of 3G 12/24/2004 01:02 PM
CNET Asia Dec 24 2004 7:51AM GMT

A Taste of Qt 4

A Taste of Qt 4 04/19/2004 01:33 AM

Taste

Taste 10/29/2003 01:15 AM

My taste buds, with age, have begun to change. Unfortunately, most aspects of my personality are a good lap or two behind. This realization surfaced last weekend, during a trip through the Sonoma wine country.

For dinner, we had a mighty fine meal at a Portuguese restaurant and drank a bottle of Portuguese wine -- a huge step for us. Getting to a point where wine has become palatable involved a year of really only drinking water with our meals. We were so addicted to carbonated beverages -- particularly Pepsi -- that we couldn't drink anything that wasn't as sweet.

Ordering a bottle of wine to go with dinner was a sad sort of accomplishment, but an accomplishment nonetheless.

The day after that dinner I was riding high from our Portuguese wine success. So I decided to press our luck and suggested that we should visit a winery for a tasting. Ben's response? He made a quiet little noise that sorted of sounded like agreement; he then choose to accidentally drive past each winery entrance.

"Oops," said Ben.

Since we had gotten through an entire weekend without fighting, I chose not to escalate and instead thought about what would happen if he did manage to make a turn-off into any of the handful of wineries along the way.

I can guarantee that this is exactly how our tasting would go:

Ben and I would enter, with me cowering behind. I would nudge him to go up to the counter and figure out what's the proper wine-tasting protocol.

He'd say no and tell me to go.

I'd return the anti-social volley and he'd give me the look and angry sigh.

It would be like two kids at a dance telling the other to approach the person they want to dance with. Neither one's going to do it and they're both going to look stupid in the process of deciding.

I would then get extremely frustrated and want to leave. As we'd walk out, I would change my mind and say that I can indeed handle the stress of being out of our element. On the way back in, I'd see some guy swirling his wine and looking all self-important. I would stare, trying to process the moment a person changes into the sort who swirls wine and talks about bouquets.

Ben would nudge me and tell me to stop making my mean face.

We'd then go up to the counter, stand speechless for a while and then realize that we don't like wine that much.

I would then write an inspired poem and wonder, why the hell I'm wasting my talents on software development.

I Can Stomach Fish Now Too
By Mena Trott, age 25

Mushrooms, wine, coffee and tea.
Don't take my youth away from me.

Instead of a "oh my, this bouquet is dripping
with a hint of oakey, strawberry sarcasm."
You get a "tastes good and it doesn't make me want to die."

A New Taste of Yum!

A New Taste of Yum! 04/28/2004 11:51 AM
KFC is rolling out a new line of "oven roasted" chicken. But is fried food the problem with KFC?

NATURAL
ENTERPRISE: FILLING AN UNMET NEED

NATURAL
ENTERPRISE: FILLING AN UNMET NEED 09/03/2004 04:31 PM

(Fourteenth of fifteen* instalments of the upcoming book Natural Enterprise. ) "Find a need and fill it". I have heard this quote from no fewer than a dozen successful business leaders. Ted Rogers, son of the inventor of the alternating-current radio tube (that allowed radios to be powered by electricity), and one of Canada's most successful entrepreneurs in his own right, recognized a need for more varied radio and television programming in Canada, so he bought up some new and very inexpensive licenses, for FM radio stations (when there were no FM stations and few FM radios), and for Cable TV distribution (when there were very few cable distributors or customers). Ted usually starts his speeches with the six-word quote that began this paragraph. Entrepreneur Magazine lists 'find a need and fill it' as Rule #1 for business start-ups. Chuck Frey's 'Innovation Tools' says these six words lie at the root of any business success. It's the most important business advice you can give. But what does this mean? It means that every successful enterprise's offerings (products and/or services) meet four criteria: They fill an unmet business, social or consumer need. The enterprise understood why the need wasn't already being met, and overcame those obstacles. The enterprise has the competencies to effectively create and deliver offerings that fill that need. The enterprise has the resources to bring those offerings to the marketplace. This may sound like a simple recipe, but it's actually quite difficult to achieve. The market for products and services, though far from perfect, is reasonably efficient at identifying and satisfying needs. If you find an unmet need, there is almost surely a reason why that need isn't being met by some other enterprise. You need to find out what that reason is, and overcome it. And then you need to gather a team of people with the collective competencies to design, produce, market and distribute the product or service that meets that need, and the resources (physical, financial and intellectual) needed to do so effectively. Easier said than done. The key to doing this is in research, the difficult, time-consuming (but usually inexpensive) process of discovering the who, what, when, where, why and how of unmet needs. There are two kinds of research: Secondary research entails reading and browsing online to gather information that has already been published about the market, and need, and the possible solutions to it. Primary research entails talking to people directly to answer these questions, gathering unpublished information and intelligence. Successful needs identification usually stems from primary, not secondary research. How do you go about doing this? To some extent it will depend, of course, on what the business idea is. You're going to have to be creative and patient and methodical in solving the all-important problem of identifying what the market needs, which is not already being satisfied by existing products and services. That means you're going to have to take the time to learn a lot about the marketplace, and about customers. Here are some ideas to get you started: Look at changes and trends in the marketplace: What's hot, and what new needs will the demand for suddenly-hot products and services spawn? How are consumer attitudes changing? How are buying behaviours changing? How is the market changing to respond to changing consumption patterns? What are people complaining about? Every complaint reflects an unmet need. What problems are businesses facing? What's keeping executives awake at night? What could you offer that would let them sleep better? What do people think there's never enough of? Sustained shortages represent business opportunities. What are the gaps in products and services? In The Support Economy, Shoshana Zuboff describes the next economy as one where the customer's needs are met 'end-to-end'. People don't have time or patience to fill in the product and service gaps, like when the great product breaks down and there's no backup, or when the daycare service closes two hours before they get home from work. A gap implies an unmet need. Likewise, is there a new service that you could 'wrap around' an existing product or service to make it more valuable? (Offering haircuts and rinses in people's homes and offices, or dinner on the commuter train, for example.) In Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Peter Drucker identifies seven areas of innovation opportunity resulting from discontinuities, all of which can be used to unearth unmet needs: Unexpected occurrences (if Kerry wins in November, what new market opportunities will that present?) Perception/reality incongruities (when we realize that greenhouse gases will bring about massive climate and environmental change in our lifetimes, how will consumer needs change?) Process weaknesses or needs (some believe advertising has no future: if they're right, what will business need in order to get information to consumers in other ways?) Industry and market changes (what will $160/barrel oil mean to us all?) Demographic changes (with a huge number of people retiring in the next 10-20 years, what will they do with their time?) Buyers' attitude and priority changes (consumers see file-sharing as a work-around for CD price-gouging and TiVo as the solution to lousy program offerings and excess commercials -- what does that mean for these industries?) New scientific and business knowledge (how will RFID devices change the way we live, shop, work, and protect our privacy?) Look at basic, overarching human needs: Health, safety, education, time, decent quality of life, meaning, recreation. How are our experiences of these things currently unsatisfactory, and how might they be improved? What great ideas failed, and why? Maybe they were ahead of their time, and their time is now. What's happening to transform certain industries, or economic sectors like education, public health, and even defense, and how might those transformational ideas, products, processes, technologies and models be applied in other industries and economic sectors? What are big corporations looking to outsource? Could you offer them what they need in those areas? What small "niches of need" exist in big business that other big businesses can't be bothered to address? (Event planning for example). What small "niches of need" exist in consumer markets that big, unspecialized businesses can't be bothered to satisfy? What new regulations exist that need compliance tools, processes, advice on compliance, and assistance? Is there a market somewhere in the world for something we take for granted but they don't have at all? And vice versa, do people in some other countries take for granted things that we have never considered selling here? In Europe, for example, some movie theatres offer excellent cuisine and fine wine -- would that work in North America? So now you've identified an unmet need, or, better, a whole raft of them. How do you investigate why these needs aren't already being met, and identify the competencies and resources that your enterprise will need to galvanize to fill those needs? The successful entrepreneurs I know all say they talked to a lot of people -- potential customers, potential suppliers, prospective competitors, experts in business startups, industry experts, market analysts, and others -- before they did anything else. The more people you talk to, the more you will learn, the closer the consensus of those people will approximate the true marketplace for your idea, the more alternative ideas you will be able to consider, the less likely you will hit the landmines that undo so many businesses with great ideas who rush prematurely into the market with suboptimal solutions. As you do your research, keep asking these questions until you're highly confident that you know the answers: What exactly is the need? Who exactly is the customer (the group that has that need)? What are the alternative solutions to it? What are the benefits and drawbacks of each alternative? Which, all things considered, are the best, affordable alternatives? Who is offering, and who could easily offer, each of those solutions? Why aren't they already offering these solutions? What competencies and what resources would your enterprise need to have to bring the best alternatives to market? No matter how wide a net you cast, you will probably be able to winnow the list down to a very few viable alternatives for each of a few needs that you believe your enterprise could competently satisfy. The best way to decide among these alternatives and needs is to do even more, mostly primary, research. Take a sketch or a prototype of your solutions (that's plural) to a significant cross-section of prospective customers and ask them to choose between them. Ask them how much they'd pay for it. Ask them what's wrong with it and what's missing. Ask open-ended questions (not just multiple choice or true/false, the way so many telephone 'surveys' do) and listen and take notes on the answers. If you're genuine and enthusiastic you can gather extremely valuable and reliable information this way, information you cannot get any other way, and which no one else will have. You'll also learn a lot about the research process, and you'll get better and faster at it the more you persevere. I know researchers who are the de facto Subject Matter Experts on a lot of subjects, far more informed, and better able to substantiate their opinions, than the gurus who have worked in the industry all their lives. Good primary researchers have the benefit of current information gleaned directly from the horses' mouths, a lot of them -- the Wisdom of Crowds. You might think it takes a lot of gall to get so many people to give you so much information and to offer their opinions free of charge. But entrepreneurs and researchers I know tell me people are often glad to help, and to offer their opinion, as long as the demand on their time is modest and that the solicitation is polite and personal. That means, ideally, face-to-face, with the telephone used only to secure an interview with them. Prepare to wear out a lot of shoes doing your research. Because business' products and services are so diverse, it's hard to generalize beyond this point about the process of Filling an Unmet Need. As the next three chapters will show, not only does going through this painstaking and time-consuming process almost guarantee you success, it can also dramatically reduce the amount of time, effort and money you need to spend promoting and marketing your product or service (you've already met a lot of your first customers, and if you fill their unmet needs they will spread the word to others -- and take some pride in having played a part in your success), and it can even reduce the amount of money you need to raise to launch the enterprise. But most importantly, you should follow this process, gruelling as it may be, because it works. If you doubt me, talk to any successful entrepreneur about the value of doing this, and you'll be convinced. In fact, this book, and the university-level Distance Learning course being built around it, came about precisely by this process: Prospective entrepreneurs, MBA students and professors I had been talking to over the past year kept telling me there was an urgent need for proven, comprehensive, practical business advice for entrepreneurs, both those looking to start their first business and those disenchanted with the struggle and disappointment that 'traditional wisdom' about entrepreneurship had led to. So I'm confident that this book will be a success and prove the entire point of this chapter, and without the need for a massive book publicity campaign. * As the book nears completion, I've taken the liberty of revamping the order and the organization of the chapters somewhat. Chapter 11 (Day to Day operations) will now become part of an expanded Chapter 5 (Improvisational Planning and Day to Day Management), with additional material on self-managed enterprises (defined goals, roles and collaboration processes), on entrepreneurial decision-making (communication, consultation and consensus-building), personal productivity improvement and management by 'walking around'. Chapter 10 (Launch & Life Cycle) is being renamed Business Evolution and will be the final chapter in the book (an excerpt from this chapter, describing organic life-cycles, complex adaptive systems, succession planning and 'natural death', will appear next week in this blog). The material on Innovation will be spread across three chapters: The Importance of Innovation (why it has been historically the #1 driver of business success); An Innovation Culture (including how to develop core innovation competencies); and The Innovation Process. Confused? A complete table of contents will appear with next week's instalment. The final book will also include about 50 'mini-case studies' drawn from my personal experiences with entrepreneurs, and from some of the leading literature on entrepreneurship: Success stories of companies that have exemplified Natural Enterprise, and war stories of those that, mostly, have not. Many thanks for all the comments from readers that have helped make writing the book a joy, and a truly collaborative experience!

A little taste of Home

A little taste of Home 12/30/2002 10:56 PM
A rather large box arrived for me at work today. It was from my parents in Ohio. They apparently decided to send me all of the food I would have normally eaten (but really shouldn't) if I had gone back...

"You Have Bad Taste in Music"

"You Have Bad Taste in Music" 07/24/2004 09:28 PM

A Taste of Africa

A Taste of Africa 09/19/2004 04:29 AM
A Taste of Africa. Life as a development worker in the Horn of Africa.

A Taste of the System

A Taste of the System 12/19/2004 03:31 PM
Since the election, as you've doubtless noticed, I haven't had much to say here. Having lost that crusade - and I do think we lost, election skullduggery notwithstanding - I have been quietly gathering myself up for the countless smaller contests arrayed before us that, taken collectively, will determine the future of freedom in America. We can't afford to lose many of those, and we will have to emulate our authoritarian adversaries' disciplined resolve if we are are to prevail. As it happens, I am already personally engaged in one of these battles, and it has been testing my resolve for over a year. Now that it seems to be coming to a head, I want to tell you about it. My own liberty is at stake, but so, I think, is the liberty of anyone who wishes to travel in America without fear of humiliation or arrest. On September 15, 2003, shortly after Burning Man, I was hauled off an airplane that was about to depart San Francisco for New York and charged with the misdemeanor possession of controlled substances that had allegedly been discovered during a search of my checked baggage. I'm not sure why it's taken me so long to relate this event. Embarrassment certainly played no part. Generally, I like to be fully disclosed, no matter how far I may wander beyond the normative fringe. I suppose that, for legal reasons, I wanted to avoid any apparent admission of guilt, and only now do I realize that it's possible to tell this tale without making one. This is because, in most cases - and this is almost certainly one of them - contraband that is illegally discovered does not legally exist. If that seems a technicality to you, you may want to re-read the 4th Amendment, as well as the subsequent case law (notably Mapp v. Ohio) which sets forth the "exclusionary rule." However shredded by the War on Some Drugs, the 4th Amendment remains part of the Constitution. In order to see that it goes on meaning something, I decided to fight this charge and have spent the last 14 months doing so. Now I will tell you my story....

OpinionJournal - Taste

OpinionJournal - Taste 06/05/2004 04:33 AM
on OpinionJournal today .. today's Opinion Journal .. rebuke

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A Taste of Linux

A Taste of Linux 01/24/2004 10:21 AM
Jim Lynch bites into four low-fat distros that boot off CD but deliver the full flavor of Linux. Use Linux on your computer without ever installing a thing!

A Matter of Taste

A Matter of Taste 01/22/2004 03:19 AM
This week's question: Does the same food taste the same to everyone?

A Taste of Linux, Part Two

A Taste of Linux, Part Two 03/08/2004 11:26 PM
In our second helping, we serve up LindowsLive!, MandrakeMove, and SUSE's Live Evaluation. Find out which is the blue-plate special and which gets sent back to the kitchen.

A Taste Of Computer Security

A Taste Of Computer Security 07/29/2004 10:24 AM

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