Leaving so soon?

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Leaving DVD Jon alone

Leaving DVD Jon alone 01/06/2004 05:45 AM
USA Today Jan 6 2004 5:14AM ET

Leaving...

Leaving... 02/10/2004 02:51 AM

I was going to write "hitting the road now, see you on the other side," but I realized that I'm going to be flying, not hitting the road, and I'll probably see you a few times along the way. Leaving on a trip is really not an important event anymore except that the likelihood that something bad is going to happen to you increases for a period of time.

Anyway, for those of you who are going to ETech, see you you face to face soon.

Leaving the Earth

Leaving the Earth 03/06/2004 02:03 AM
Rannva dropped this URL on an older blog entry, so I figured I should pop it up to a larger readership, since it's just too cool:

Orion's Arm Worldbuilding Group.

A huge collection of Creative Commons -licensed alternative world history (and future) that should make the soul of every hardcore sci-fi fan tickle. I only took a quick glance through it, but already I started getting ideas...

I think this is another good example on how uncoordinated efforts of dedicated amateurs can produce things that rival commercial alternatives. I don't think it replaces them, though, but it can be a good choice among many. The Internet has really allowed a whole new kind of collaboration efforts to take place, things that were rather difficult to do before. Essentially the Internet is now doing the job of the scientific journals, and it is not surprising that many of the academic papers are being published on the Internet first these days...

Leaving Las Vegas

Leaving Las Vegas 01/16/2004 10:57 AM
Sorry for the absence, folks... I've just limped back into New York from a lost weekend of fear and loathing in Las Vegas, during which just about the last thing on my mind was this blog. Before I post anything real - and I have several rants percolating - I want to thank you for having maintained what I consider a commendable civility while I was off contributing to the decline of civilization, despite your passionately conflicting political beliefs. There's been froth and pitch and a lot of wit. Best of all, you've been sounding like grown-ups. (A virtue I've come to appreciate a lot more of late.) I think the "constructive combat" I wished for in my last post may actually be arising here. This can be a venue where the vectors of opinion that presently rend our beloved country can come to appreciate each other a little better, if only for our sense of humor. I don't think either side is likely to win many converts. We're all pretty convinced. But if we maintain our currently reduced level of name-calling, we might grow back some of the tolerance that has become all too rare among our fellow citizens and upon which democracy itself depends. I be back at it myself as soon as I've had a chance to clear my head. In that service, I'm off to find myself a latte. Since my place here is in Little Italy, that will be easy enough to do. Might even pick up a New York Times while I'm at it......

The Relief of Leaving a Job

The Relief of Leaving a Job 03/14/2005 05:01 PM
I've noticed a funny thing in the last year or so. The vast majority of the time someone I know leaves a job (or is fired) two trends seem to recur: A sense of relief: "I'm so glad I'm not at that place anymore." A complete loss of "spare" time: "I'm busier now than when I was working full-time!" Maybe everyone should change jobs once or twice a decade? Maybe people should ask themselves a bit more often one question:...

Leaving Pompignan I

Leaving Pompignan I 06/29/2004 05:12 PM

As it appears we’re about to move to a town with DSL capabilities, it would be good to hear from anyone with strong opinion on Wanadoo vs Freebox vs Tiscali vs Noos and so on, haut-débit-wise.

I’d rather not give more money than absolutely necessary to the bloated France Telecom, and the dinks at Tiscali haven’t exactly curried a lot of favour, but if the big-pipes 2048k offers they’re flinging about actually work, then so be it.

A bell is a cup, until it is struck.

Leaving Nokia

Leaving Nokia 12/17/2003 05:03 AM
I've had it with my Nokia 3650. On paper it's a great phone with just about all of the modern...

On Leaving New York

On Leaving New York 07/20/2004 01:03 PM
I've been putting off writing about it because it seems like too much to cover, but then that's probably the...

Leaving Pompignan II

Leaving Pompignan II 07/28/2004 12:51 PM

So yeah, we moved. Everyone says it’s stressful to move, up there with divorce and sudden unemployment, but christ on a bike it takes a lot out of you. Never mind the backache and barked knuckles: you’re left without a soul.

We’re now about an hour and a half east of Pompignan, in the Rhône Valley, hugged up next to the vaguely shitty Bagnols-sur-Cèze. Actually strike that – it’s only shitty if all you see of it is the shopping malls and supermarkets and their parking lots while you rush around for food and drink between time spent figuring where to put all the god damn stuff that was schlepped over from the old place. The town has a heart, we found out this morning: each Wednesday every street and sidestreet is filled with market stalls, patrolled by women pushing baby strollers, cops in funny pillbox hats, and Dutch tourists. Olives, baby: buckets of them.

The new house is nice. There is interesting plaster moulding. All doorways are higher than my forehead. The dogs have a yard to destroy. Here are some pictures.

Leaving La La land.......

Leaving La La land....... 11/03/2003 12:19 PM
Time flies when you're running jet set to every crazy cool event you can squeeze into 3 days. I leave...

Reflections on leaving Panama

Reflections on leaving Panama 02/10/2004 02:44 AM

Looking out the windows of the Boeing 757 taking me away from Panama it remains hard to believe that the railroad (1850-55) and then the canal were built.  They had no aircraft and therefore could not perform aerial surveys of a roadless unknown country.  They had no insect repellant in a place swarming with mosquitoes, sand flies, and other sources of nasty bites (so perhaps it was for the best that, until the Americans came along, nobody believed that mosquitoes caused malaria and yellow fever).  The development of this country is a remarkable tribute to the triumph of energy over natural caution. 

Most of that energy came from the American West.  The California gold rush of 1849 provided the impetus for the construction of the railroad and most of its initial revenue.  When the French effort failed two citizens of Medora, North Dakota played key roles.  The best-known is
that of one-time rancher Theodore Roosevelt.  As president of the United States in 1903 it was Roosevelt who encouraged Panamanians to secede from Columbia and subsequently approved taking over the French concession in the isthmus.  Canal historian David McCullough in Br ave Companions writes about another Medoran in his book Brave Companions.

Antoine Amedee-Marie-Vincent Manca de Vallombrosa, the Marquis de Mores, was a French aristocrat married to the daughter of a wealthy Wall Street banker.  Of North Dakota the Marquis wrote "I like this country for there is room to move about without stepping on the feet of others."  He invested much of his wealth in the North Dakota badlands, in a local slaughterhouse, and in refrigerated rail cars to deliver beef to markets in the East, in competition with the Chicago stockyards.  Roosevelt was frequently a guest in the Marquis's house in Medora until a cruel winter drove them and their herds out. The Marquis blamed the failure of his enterprise on "the Jewish beef trust" and, upon returning to France, satisfied the French public's demand to know what had gone wrong with their sea level canal with the explanation that the Jews were to blame.  The Marquis successfully stirred many thousands of his countrymen to anti-Jewish riots regarding the canal and subsequently played an important role in the Dreyfus Affair.  He was less successful outside France. According to McCullough, the Marquis was "murdered in June 1896 by a band of Tuareg tribesmen in North Africa", where he had been engaged in an effort to "united the Muslims under the French flag in an all-out holy war against the Jews and the English."

Quantum Cryptography Leaving the Lab

Quantum Cryptography Leaving the Lab 04/12/2004 10:14 AM

Transmeta leaving CPU business?

Transmeta leaving CPU business? 01/05/2005 02:10 PM
Low-power CPU maker Transmeta is mulling over a departure from the business of making processors. Can they survive as a pure R&D company?

Man Arrested After Leaving Small Tip
(AP)

Man Arrested After Leaving Small Tip
(AP) 09/10/2004 04:54 PM
AP - A New York City man accused of leaving an inadequate tip at a restaurant was arrested, fingerprinted and photographed for a mug shot.

Are Spammers Leaving The Business?

Are Spammers Leaving The Business? 05/06/2004 02:53 AM
It appears that the combination of technology solutions and legal crackdowns on spammers may be having some effect on a few of the weaker willed spammers. USA Today is reporting that some spammers are finding other lines of work. I'd be more encouraged if there were a corresponding decrease in the amount of spam - but most studies seem to show that it's increasing (and my own personal stats support this). One interesting note is that some spammers say they plan on becoming "reformed" spammers who try to come up with better anti-spam solutions. Can you trust a spammer to help stop spam? I'm not so sure.

Man Arrested for Leaving Small Tip (AP)

Man Arrested for Leaving Small Tip (AP) 09/13/2004 07:03 AM
AP - Humberto A. Taveras put his money where his mouth is and ended up arrested, accused of leaving an inadequate tip at a restaurant.

McCaffrey leaving Google

McCaffrey leaving Google 12/22/2004 01:19 AM

Dan Gillmor Leaving the Merc

Dan Gillmor Leaving the Merc 12/19/2004 03:05 PM
Wow. My hometown paper hero has moved on. Congratulations Dan.  Whatever the future holds, I'm sure you will not only get it, but possibly now shape it....

Frasier Is Leaving the Building

Frasier Is Leaving the Building 05/13/2004 09:30 PM

The writers and cast of "Frasier" earned their huge following by treating the audience with respect. They combined sophisticated comedy with slapstick, joy with angst, and never lost their warm view of humanity. Even the occasional low points were better than most of the "entertainment" that pollutes today's heartless, brainless TV wasteland. The highs were sublime. It's been fun.

TiVo president leaving

TiVo president leaving 02/01/2005 09:06 PM
Departure comes weeks after the company launches search for new chief executive officer.

Leaving ApacheCon 2003

Leaving ApacheCon 2003 12/05/2003 08:58 AM
We're back from ApacheCon and wading through the blogs

Stanford/SFP: Leaving on a Jet Plane

Stanford/SFP: Leaving on a Jet Plane 06/17/2005 03:28 PM

Snook leaving Carphone

Snook leaving Carphone 04/14/2005 07:06 AM
The Register Apr 14 2005 11:51AM GMT

My Party Is Leaving the Faithful Behind

My Party Is Leaving the Faithful Behind 04/11/2005 10:14 AM
Kevin Starr: My Party Is Leaving the Faithful Behind (Free LA Times Regisitration) .. eloquent lament

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leaving 18 American casualties

leaving 18 American casualties 04/03/2005 06:15 PM
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One in 10 nurses 'is leaving NHS'

One in 10 nurses 'is leaving NHS' 08/20/2004 08:55 AM
One in 10 nurses and midwives is leaving the NHS, official figures have shown.

Monster Founder Leaving

Monster Founder Leaving 06/17/2005 03:54 PM
Monster Worldwide, which operates the most-used Web site for employment advertising, said that its founder was leaving to start a new venture.

Leaving Las Vegas, and Glad of It

Leaving Las Vegas, and Glad of It 01/16/2004 01:00 PM
Las Vegas municipal officials should realize that by tonight, tens of thousands of people from all over the world have told family and friends about the ridiculously inept airport operation at one of the world's most popular tourism destinations. This is going to translate into dollars, as in lost dollars.

Justin Frankel Really Leaving AOL

Justin Frankel Really Leaving AOL 01/26/2004 06:27 PM
Despite rumors< /a> coming out right after the Waste-mess, Nullsoft founder Justin Frankel stuck around at AOL for another six months or so before finally announcing that, this time, he's really leaving the company. AOL is probably thrilled. Still, it should be interesting to see what he comes up with next, which won't need to be taken offline by AOL within 24 hours of him releasing it. I'm still a bit surprised he lasted this long.

On leaving and rejoining services
online...

On leaving and rejoining services
online... 06/22/2005 02:25 AM

Ok, so I'm holed up at Lance Arthur's pad for a couple of hours and I'm taking the opportunity to plough through some of the stuff that I can't get written in London. First up, a post about FeedBurner and Blogger and specifically about a post called Ciao , Feedburner over on the official FeedBurner weblog.

For those of you who don't know, FeedBurner is a profoundly useful service for webloggers that grabs your RSS/Atom feeds and enhances them in various ways. The assumption of the service is that these feeds are generally machine-produced and that the vast majority of people are not super-alpha-geek users capable of hacking them around. So instead of learning Atom's intricacies, you tell FeedBurner where your current feed is, FeedBurner then chews it all up, splices in stuff from del.icio.us or Flickr or whatever, makes the whole thing compatible with more standards than you were aware existed, puts a shiny style-sheeted face on the whole thing and then spits it out at a new location. The Feedburner feed for plasticbag.org (for example) is here: FeedBurner feed for plasticbag.org.

Of course FeedBurner does many more things that I've just mentioned. It also tracks your user stats more effectively than anything else I've seen. It can replace embedded Amazon links with ones that include your money-making Amazon Associates ID. And most impressively of all, FeedBurner can turn absolutely normal posts in them into fully working Podcasts. So, if you're currently overwhelmed with the complexity of Podcasting, there's an easy way of getting yourself started.

So generally, it's a pretty impressive service and one which you might want to use. But when I came to it originally, I was quite sceptical. Why? Because it seemed like a one-way path - once I'd got people using my FeedBurner feed, how could I ever make them transition to a new service? What happened if I changed my mind? If I had previously changed the location of my feeds on my personal site, I could use some weird .htaccess rewrite rule to send people to the new place. It was geeky, but it was possible. But I can't do that on someone else's service. The whole situation looked like a weird kind of lock-in where if I was to swap to a new service I'd lose half of my subscribers. And that kind of lock-in can only make you sceptical of joining a service in the first place, and make you resent it in time.

But not any more! As of a few days ago FeedBurner added a new service that completely fixed this problem. If you decide to leave them now, you can tell the service the address of your new feed and it will reorganise itself accordingly:

Day 1-10: Any requests for the FeedBurner feed are sent an HTTP 301 "Permanent Redirect" response back to your source feed. This will cause most feed readers to forget the FeedBurner URL and use the new URL from that point on. Your subscribers don't feel a thing.

Day 11-20: If your FeedBurner feed is still getting requests at this point, it probably means that your feed reader is treating that "Permanent Redirect" as a "Temporary Redirect". That's actually pretty common, so now we enter "Phase 2". Now, any requests for your FeedBurner feed will receive a "redirect document". What is a redirect document? Dave Winer displayed foresight by anticipating this need back in 2002 and provided this specification so that a publisher could keep control of their feed location. We strongly encourage more feed readers to support this specification, and we are going to be widely campaigning for this capability.

Day 21-30: You're still here? Well, at this point we return a valid feed that contains a single item that says "This feed has moved to (feed URL here)". So even though all of the transparent mechanisms to redirect the subscription have failed, there's still a trail for your subscribers to follow.

The consequence? I now feel much less likely to leave! This simple exit path has made me feel enormously more comfortable with their service and much more comfortable recommending it to friends. As an organisation they're stating publically that they respect their users and their opinions. Moreover, they're stating that they're not interested exploiting people's inertia or in trapping them. These are all powerful and positive messages - messages that make the organisation enormously more trustworthy.

The guys behind Flickr have a similar philosophy, which I have always loved. They want people to feel that they can trust Ludicorp with incredibly personal pictures of their loved ones and their life. As such they've made it relatively easy for people to pull their photos out of Flickr at whatever point they want. There's no attempt to hold the users to ransom. These are good things. They're good enough to almost constitute a rule: Give people clear and easy ways to transition out from your service with no loss of data. They will like you for it, and will be less likely to leave you.

But sometimes, it's not enough just to give people an easy exit from your service. Sometimes you can still hold people to ransom by not giving them an easy enough way to come back. I often think of Blogger when I think around this stuff - I was with Blogger for years as a user. I loved their service enormously. And when Movable Type came along I considered moving but decided against it. It was a long time later that I started to consider that it might be a better fit for my needs. And so I looked into how you could transition across between the services concerned and discovered that it was relatively easy. You simply provided Blogger with a different kind of template that MT could read as data and then clicked an 'import' button. Nice and simple - well done Blogger for giving me an escape route.

But where MT had a facility to import entries, Blogger did not. If I decided to try a different platform, then there would be no easy going back. If I left Blogger I would be leaving forever. After much trepidation, I made the leap to MT and for a while I ran the two sites in parallel. MT had its problems running on Pair servers, but I stuck with it and in the end I left Blogger behind. But it was a wrench and a leap of faith, and in the process I'd come to resent Blogger for putting me in such an awkward position - for acting like the parent who says, 'if you get in that car, don't bother coming back'. Because of course I never could go back...

What I learned from the situation with Blogger - and which I'm delighted to see that FeedBurner knew as well - is that it's as important to give people the ability to rejoin your service as it is to help them leave. But really, there's a higher level lesson here as well: it pays to be honourable when you're building software and services. It pays - as Google says - to do no evil. It pays a financial reward, it pays a reward of user respect and loyalty, and - I think most importantly - it pays a personal creative reward of knowing that you've made a service that people actively want to stay with.

It seems obvious, but users seem to want to try things without risk, without a hard sell, and then settle on the platform or service that makes most sense to them. You should want that too. You should want your users to be happy, to be content, to not be railing against your control, to not resent your service. To restrict that freedom (to leave and to come back) seems to me to be a profound statement that you have no faith in what you've created, that you're not sure that it can stand on its own merits, and that you're prepared to screw over your customers to meet your immediate needs. No company can sustain such a relationship forever. All it can do is alienate. So well done Flickr and FeedBurner and - to an extent - Blogger. And may (many) other companies learn from your examples...

HP notebook executive leaving for Dell

HP notebook executive leaving for Dell 08/10/2004 05:48 PM
The departure comes as the two computer giants battle for market share.

Google Is One for the Books, Leaving
Some With Regrets

Google Is One for the Books, Leaving
Some With Regrets 08/22/2004 09:19 PM
Top Silicon Valley venture capitalists who missed out on the Google deal are scratching their heads.

Toshiba may be leaving the PDA market;
Is the PDA dead?

Toshiba may be leaving the PDA market;
Is the PDA dead? 07/10/2004 12:48 PM
In early June we learned that Sony was putting the hold on PDA development in all markets outside of Asia. Now it looks like Toshiba is going to back out, too.

Are You Leaving Your Security in the
Hands of your Web Browser

Are You Leaving Your Security in the
Hands of your Web Browser 03/19/2005 02:38 AM
Online privacy company announces user-friendly tools to help you protect your own online life. [PRWEB Mar 18, 2005]

Ex-mayor Morgan leaving SDLP

Ex-mayor Morgan leaving SDLP 09/16/2004 03:59 AM
The former SDLP Lord Mayor of Belfast announces that he will be retiring from Northern Ireland politics.

Man Accused of Leaving Feces on Produce
(AP)

Man Accused of Leaving Feces on Produce
(AP) 09/20/2004 11:03 PM
AP - A grocery store closed and cleaned its produce section and inspected all of its other merchandise as police arrested a 23-year-old homeless man accused of leaving human feces on the produce.

Identity Brokerage leaving the station

Identity Brokerage leaving the station 12/17/2004 06:28 PM

 Esther Dyson and Ray Anderson are early investors in Simon Grice's Midentity - which announced a deal with BT today. I hope that smart folks like Om Malik and Rafat Ali notice this.

I just hate it when deals take months to close, but Simon has been working on this one - forever. It's the beginning of the deployment of true identity based servcies - into the mainstream.

Imagine Midentity as a Sxip Networks HomeSite - compatible with FOAFnet, i-names, Liberty Alliance, Passport - the whole nine yards. But who cares about any of that - unless the identity is put into a context?

We've been trying to show social networking in context with 1UP.com (for gamers) and Glowria.fr (for Movie nuts.....) - and now it looks like Midentity is about to put identity into context for Phone slackers and Gen-X,Y,Zers in the U.K.

Imagine being able to locate friends on your cell phone, IM them, interface to your DLA on your PC at home, download a song, meetup at a coffee house, listen to teh music, upload a photo of the group of friends to your blog, send that photo elsewhere and spontaneously form a group - before dessert comes?

Then you get email from the office, you update your project Wiki, forward a spec list to a comrade in Moscow and - in general - stay on top of your digital lifestyle.

Simon is the one closest to delivering that - right now. He's got 850,000 folks signed up in the U.K. so far.

Simon has also started a new blog called Personal Digital Identity - I bet allot will be going on over there in 2005. Speaking of which - Simon is having a party on the top of the BT Tower in February. I'm definitely gonna be there for that! See yah in London in February - Simon!

Oh yah - Dick Hardt is also an investor in Midentity. And I hope to hell that WE'RE working for Simon - so I can proudly say "we helepd build Midentity into what it is today."

Koppel Leaving ABC News in December

Koppel Leaving ABC News in December 03/31/2005 11:52 PM
Ted Koppel, who provided a hard-news alternative as host of "Nightline," will leave ABC when his contract expires.

Cindy McCaffrey is Leaving Google

Cindy McCaffrey is Leaving Google 01/02/2005 03:37 PM
ResearchBuzz Jan 2 2005 8:18PM GMT
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