Utah City Shuns Party-Town Reputation (AP)

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US City & Town Official Web Sites

US City & Town Official Web Sites 04/30/2004 06:08 AM
US City & Town Official Web Sites
http://www.citytown.info/

This site is a directory of "reliable and stable [online] sources of city and town information. Namely city sites, chamber of
commerce sites, convention and visitor bureau sites, etc. Stable sites usually will have obtained their own .com, .org, .net, .info, .us, [or] .gov" domain name. Also includes information for Canada. Browsable by state or province. Also includes a discussion forum. [Copyright 2004 by Librarians' Index to the Internet, LII]

California Town to Become Nation's 1st
Fully Wired City

California Town to Become Nation's 1st
Fully Wired City 12/03/2003 12:41 AM
Techfocus Dec 3 2003 0:10AM ET

Spy Town: Florida City To Run Computer
Checks On Every Car Passing Through;
Cameras Will Watch

Spy Town: Florida City To Run Computer
Checks On Every Car Passing Through;
Cameras Will Watch 04/28/2004 08:12 PM
usatoday.printthis.clickability.com via Drudge Rep Apr 29 2004 0:49AM GMT

HAPPY HOLIDAYS FROM PARTY CITY

HAPPY HOLIDAYS FROM PARTY CITY 12/12/2003 02:00 PM
CC Hates - In a printed weekend circular that went out to thousands of Dallas TX residents, Party City outlet stores promote 25% savings on menorahs, including a TINY almost impossibl e to spot typo.

circular printed by ADVO .. watch this space ... That's ADVO, The Targeter of Choice

Midnight Madness Party In New York City

Midnight Madness Party In New York City 04/01/2005 02:50 PM
The Toys "R" Us Times Square Midnight Toy Release for the Episode III toy line will have the party getting started long before the doors even open.

The Washington party is a failed party,
and Dean's criticism of the Washington
party is incredibly accurate

The Washington party is a failed party,
and Dean's criticism of the Washington
party is incredibly accurate 12/30/2003 02:43 AM
As Pre-Primary Season Closes, Questions Cling to Dean's Gains (washingtonpost.com)

washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A35153-2003Dec27? language=printer
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O2 shuns 3G hype

O2 shuns 3G hype 09/27/2004 05:24 AM
'3G is not just a new toy for watching video'...It's not?

Digital Music Download "Party All Night"
by Dre is Named Top Party Song of 2004

Digital Music Download "Party All Night"
by Dre is Named Top Party Song of 2004 12/30/2004 05:06 AM
DJs Kid Capri, Kay Slay, Jam Master Flash, DJ Smooth and others selected TCOOO label’s “Party All Night” for top honors. [PRWEB Dec 30, 2004]

Apple uses XML for new presentation
format, but shuns SVG

Apple uses XML for new presentation
format, but shuns SVG 01/10/2003 11:52 AM
Tim Bray pointed to an example of the XML vocabulary for Apple's new presentation program, Keynote. He also noted that "it includes a fairly complete vector-graphics facility." This led to discussion of why Apple chose not to use SVG for vector graphics.

Court shuns France's first gay marriage

Court shuns France's first gay marriage 07/28/2004 11:12 AM
Couple vows "fight to the end" as issue causes political storm.

SEM and Reputation Management

SEM and Reputation Management 06/28/2004 02:44 PM
Source: ClickZ - Identifying flame sites is only the beginning. How to win reputation management battles with smart SEM....

AOL shuns Microsoft's anti-spam
technology

AOL shuns Microsoft's anti-spam
technology 09/16/2004 06:55 PM
SiliconValley.com Sep 16 2004 10:48PM GMT

AOL Shuns Microsoft Anti-Spam Technology

AOL Shuns Microsoft Anti-Spam Technology 09/16/2004 06:55 PM
AP via Daily Press Sep 16 2004 11:16PM GMT

AOL Shuns Microsoft Anti-Spam Technology
(AP)

AOL Shuns Microsoft Anti-Spam Technology
(AP) 09/16/2004 05:06 PM
AP - Add America Online Inc. to the growing list of companies and organizations shunning a spam-fighting proposal from Microsoft Corp. AOL cited "tepid support" for Microsoft's so-called Sender ID technology, which seeks to cut down on junk e-mail by making it difficult for spammers to forge e-mail headers and addresses, a common technique for hiding their origins.

EU ruling shuns open source, critics say

EU ruling shuns open source, critics say 02/05/2005 09:26 PM
Being the whole point of this EU ruling was to help offset the perceived damage done by the monopoly that Microsoft had on both the server and desktop market, you would think that things are going to be hunky-dory now. This does not appear to be the case in this instance….

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"GOP shuns Zell Miller after backlash
from his speech"

"GOP shuns Zell Miller after backlash
from his speech" 09/03/2004 03:55 PM

AOL shuns Microsoft’s anti-spam
technology

AOL shuns Microsoft’s anti-spam
technology 09/22/2004 08:20 AM

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“Add America Online Inc. to the growing list of companies and organizations shunning a spam-fighting proposal from Microsoft Corp. advertisement AOL cited “tepid support” for Microsoft’s so-called Sender ID technology, which seeks to cut down on junk e-mail by making it difficult for spammers to forge e-mail headers and addresses, a common technique for hiding their origins. (MSNBC is a Microsoft - NBC joint venture.) Thursday’s announcement came on the heels of a recent decision…

Reformist shuns Iranian vote plea

Reformist shuns Iranian vote plea 02/17/2004 01:28 AM
A leading reformist MP tells the BBC that the Iranian president's election call to voters is unfair.

Reuters: 'Apple shuns video iPod'

Reuters: 'Apple shuns video iPod' 06/17/2004 06:47 AM
This will not be any great surprise to Mac users who follow Apple news on a regular basis, but Apple has no immediate plans to market a video iPod and analysts agree, reports Reuters...

Take New York's Party Scene. Add the
Grand Old Party. Stir.

Take New York's Party Scene. Add the
Grand Old Party. Stir. 07/08/2004 10:30 PM
From the moment that the news media arrive at the Republican National Convention until it closes, New York City will be teeming with parties.

Blogs, Voice, and Reputation

Blogs, Voice, and Reputation 06/22/2005 02:19 AM

So last week I was lucky enough to have dinner with the Scan 3 – Alane, Alice, and George of It’s All Good fame. If you read their blog, you know how dinner was. Lively, fun, entertaining, and most interesting. They’re exactly like they seem in their writing, which I’ve found to be true of most bloggers who give good voice. If you have the chance to be in the same room with the three of them, I highly recommend it. I can’t say enough about the level of understanding these folks have about libraries, where we need to be, and how we need to get there.

Then I was given a whirlwind tour of the OCLC Research team’s digs and even their actual research. They’re working on some very cool stuff, some of which we’ll start seeing out in the wild very soon. I wish I could have spent more time with every person I met there and heard more about their various projects, but I had to catch a plane home.

It was a most interesting experience for me because I’ve always had a love/hate relationship with OCLC. They’re the 800–pound gorilla in the room for me, kind of like libraryland’s Microsoft. But over the last couple of years, I feel like I’ve been watching a transformation, an evolution of the gorilla. It’s not that they didn’t have smart or dedicated people in the past, because they did. From the sidelines, it looks to me like OCLC is finally looking outwards instead of inwards, that they’ve noticed there’s a whole web thing going on out there and that ultimately, they (in particular their member libraries) need to be part of it.

This is best exemplified by Lorcan Dempsey, his blog, and his mantra that OCLC needs to make its data work harder, the way Amazon and Google do. I first took this new attitude seriously when they released the Environmental Scan, even more so when Open WorldCat was released. For years I was mad at them for keeping WorldCat so closed and isolated, so this was a most welcome change. It seems like now all of those smart and dedicated people are thinking bigger, more collaboratively, and just more expansively than they have in the past. That’s a Martha Stewart good thing, bolded, italicized, and underlined. Last week they announced the e-serials pilot project to expose full-text electronic journals in WorldCat and the just-announced ‘Ask-a-Libra rian’ pilot in WorldCat, and just wait until you see the WorldCat wiki (it’s too-damn-cool, and it should rock hard).

While you’re at it, check out Thom Hickey’s blog Outgoing, and you’ll see the rest of one of the two best employee blog implementations in libraryvendorland (the other being the Talis employee blogs). I can’t believe more library vendors aren’t doing this, but they’ve got two great models to help get them started. In addition, employees from both companies often leave comments on my site or send me email asking questions or further exploring issues I’ve raised, and I know they do this on other sites, too. I feel like they’re really listening (not just to me because I’m not so egotistical as to think they need to be, but just that they’re listening overall) and thinking about what’s being said about their products and services out in the big, wide world [web]. If someone takes the time to write about something your company did or said (or didn’t do or didn’t say), it says a lot when you respond to them on their own site. All library vendors (and libraries) should be tracking what’s said about them in the blogosphere via RSS (another point I stress in my presentations).

So, why am I telling you all of this? For a few reasons. This post is aimed at several different audiences.

1. The marketing/PR folks at OCLC: I have no idea how or why the Scan 3 were able to start blogging outside of OCLC’s site, and I have no idea how you feel about it, but hopefully you know that their blog is worth its weight in gold several times over. This one blog has done a world of good to rehabilitate OCLC’s reputation and humanize your organization. More people talk about OCLC, point to what OCLC is saying, and follow what OCLC is doing (and give you free advertising for it) because of the honest and direct voices on It’s All Good. I actually use them as a case study in my blogging presentations. I have no evidence that you plan to change the setup but just in case, don’t. No one has indicated to me any problems or grumbled anything, but it never hurts to note how things look from the outside. After all, there’s a reason I was invited to tour Research, and there’s a reason I’m writing this post of praise for what they (and the Scan team) are doing. It worked for everybody.

2. Libraries: if you watch It’s All Good and Lorcan’s blog, you’ll notice all of the things I’ve observed in this post. Voice, authenticity, humanizing a used-to-be-faceless-organization. Blogging can give you all of this. Even if you don’t need to rehabilitate your library’s image, let’s face it, library web sites could use a little personality. If you’re not already blogging, you should consider it, especially if you already have a “what’s new” page. That’s where you want to start. Bonus points: starting a blog automatically gives you an RSS feed.

3. OCLC Research (and really the whole staff): keep up the great work! It’s really refreshing to see this change, and I look forward to even greater things from you.  No pressure.  ;-)

could've destroyed their reputation

could've destroyed their reputation 12/29/2003 06:06 AM
Talking Points Memo .. the lucid take-down

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Marion Jones's Reputation Is Up in the
Air

Marion Jones's Reputation Is Up in the
Air 07/08/2004 10:30 PM
Marion Jones, one of the most iconic female athletes of her time, begins the U.S. Olympic track and field trials on Friday heavy with burdens.

Patents, RFCs and Reputation

Patents, RFCs and Reputation 09/16/2004 01:55 AM
Here's a thought, which is more valuable: the Eolas Patent on browser plugins or Dave Crocker's RFC for email? Eolas recieved a half a billion settlement from Microsoft, and the original inventors probably realized a considerable reward. I'm using Eolas...

Wikipedia, Reputation and Accuracy

Wikipedia, Reputation and Accuracy 08/31/2004 12:00 PM
There's been a fascinating uproar in cyberspace about the estimable Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia I discussed here early this year and in the book. One of the topics was whether a site written entirely by its readers -- and where every page can be edited by anyone -- could meet any kind of "standards" of accuracy and reliablity. The latest tempest was stirred by this column in a Syracuse, NY, newspaper, in which a librarian is quoted dumping on Wikipedia for various reasons. It gets complicated from there. Thankfuly, Ross Mayfield has deconstructed the debate with lots of links and good quotes. Read the whole thing.

Manifesto for the Reputation Society

Manifesto for the Reputation Society 07/22/2004 06:18 AM
Manifesto for the Reputation Society by Hassan Masum and Yi-Cheng Zhang
http://firstmonda y.org/issues/issue9_7/masum/

Abstract
Information overload, challenges of evaluating quality, and the opportunity to benefit from experiences of others have spurred the development of reputation systems. Most Internet sites which mediate between large numbers of people use some form of reputation mechanism: Slashdot, eBay, ePinions, Amazon, and Google all make use of collaborative filtering, recommender systems, or shared judgements of quality. But we suggest the potential utility of reputation services is far greater, touching nearly every aspect of society. By leveraging our limited and local human judgement power with collective networked filtering, it is possible to promote an interconnected ecology of socially beneficial reputation systems — to restrain the baser side of human nature, while unleashing positive social changes and enabling the realization of ever higher goals.

Update 2: AOL Shuns Microsoft Anti-Spam
Technology

Update 2: AOL Shuns Microsoft Anti-Spam
Technology 09/17/2004 08:21 AM
Forbes Sep 17 2004 12:47PM GMT

Florida shuns paper backup of computer
ballots

Florida shuns paper backup of computer
ballots 02/19/2004 10:02 AM
Miami Herald Feb 19 2004 2:03PM GMT

EU Microsoft ruling shuns open source,
critics say

EU Microsoft ruling shuns open source,
critics say 02/05/2005 09:19 PM
The European Commission's requirement that Microsoft Corp. license certain of its communication protocols will do little for competition in the workgroup server market if a draft license proposed by Microsoft is accepted, open source software advocates say.

Many-to-Many: Wikipedia Reputation and
the Wemedia Project

Many-to-Many: Wikipedia Reputation and
the Wemedia Project 09/01/2004 05:01 PM
Ross Mayfield on the reliability of the Wikipedia .. Ross Mayfield’s in-depth review .. deconstructed the debate .. new question mark .. rassembls ici .. Many-to-Many .. round-up

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Corporate Reputation Management 2004

Corporate Reputation Management 2004 01/22/2004 03:30 PM
marcus evans Jan 22 2004 7:24PM GMT

Reputation systems academic paper

Reputation systems academic paper 07/19/2004 11:47 AM
The current issue of First Monday has a thorough academic article on reputation systems.

The sharing of observations and opinions builds up a picture in each person’s mind of the reputation’s subject, which we might call the "Invisible Eye" — the distributed formation of reputations, and consequent increased ability to distinguish better from worse. To the degree that you have access to and trust the experience of others, it is almost as if you yourself had been there watching that previous situation, thus increasing your base of experience from which to judge future reliability — and increasing pressure on the subject in question to behave responsibly. The analogy to Adam Smith’s Invisible Hand is not accidental; just as selfish local actions with market incentives can lead to collectively efficient behavior, locally maximizing actions with reputation incentives have the potential for similar guided emergent behavior that exceeds what might have been designed by a conscious planner.

The ultimate aim is to increase the level of collective wisdom through sharing our separate experience and expertise. This will enable a "division of experience" — instead of each of us personally suffering through scams, cheats, and mediocrity, we will be able to leverage each other’s experiences. Collectively, aided by astutely networked reputation systems, we stand the best chance of overcoming our dark side and bringing out the best in us.

Lin k (Thanks, Alex!)

A quick self-Google once a day to guard
your reputation

A quick self-Google once a day to guard
your reputation 05/22/2004 11:19 AM
Sydney Morning Herald May 22 2004 2:50PM GMT

Brightmail Bows Reputation Service

Brightmail Bows Reputation Service 01/27/2004 04:07 PM
Internet News Jan 27 2004 8:43PM GMT

2nd Issue of The Deli Released March 25;
Todd P, Best NYC Indie Rock Party
Impresario, and 1970s NYC New Wave Scene
Featured; Launch Party at Sin-é with
Over 200 People

2nd Issue of The Deli Released March 25;
Todd P, Best NYC Indie Rock Party
Impresario, and 1970s NYC New Wave Scene
Featured; Launch Party at Sin-é with
Over 200 People 03/30/2005 03:29 AM
The second issue of The Deli hit New York City streets on Friday, March 25, following its successful launch at the end of 2004, with expanded review and feature sections, and a new bi-monthly publication schedule. The second issue launch party, with more than 200 people attending, was held on March 25 at Sin-é (150 Attorney Street) with performances by Hopewell, Mudville, Nicole Atkins in 3D, The Epochs and Hello Nurse. [PRWEB Mar 30, 2005]

Dell shuns Microsoft's hate-radio toilet
shockjock

Dell shuns Microsoft's hate-radio toilet
shockjock 03/13/2003 06:09 PM
Pulls ads

Negroponte Vows Intelligence Revamp,
Shuns Torture (Reuters)

Negroponte Vows Intelligence Revamp,
Shuns Torture (Reuters) 04/12/2005 01:52 PM
Reuters - Intelligence czar nominee John Negroponte vowed on Tuesday to revamp the U.S. spy community to prevent blunders like those ahead of the Sept. 11 attacks and the Iraq war, and ruled out using torture by security agencies.

Ketchup mishap stains his reputation...
(Reuters)

Ketchup mishap stains his reputation...
(Reuters) 06/17/2005 05:04 PM
Reuters - An email between a highly paid lawyer and a secretary over a tomato ketchup stain has become the talk of legal circles in London, leaving the sender distinctly red-faced.

Crashes Tarnish Houston Rail Reputation
(AP)

Crashes Tarnish Houston Rail Reputation
(AP) 08/10/2004 04:11 PM
AP - Once called the "train to nowhere," Houston's new rail line between downtown and the Astrodome is earning a few new nicknames — "Danger Train," the "Wham Bam Tram," "A Streetcar Named Disaster."
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