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Help Hurricane Victims, Donate Now

B.L. Ochman says the Red Cross is the best organization to give money to in order to help victims of Hurricane Katrina.
BuzzMachine has a great collection of links to various sites that will help you sort out the best charities to give to.
I’ve only had limited experience, but I would have to agree with BL. [...]

How Much Publishing Power Can You Handle?

We are near the point where very sophisticated content management systems are going to put “enterprise publishing” (e.g. the technology behind NYTimes.com) within reach of nearly everyone, and business bloggers are catching on.
Steve Rubel points to InfoWorld report suggesting that the information management power of blogs could easily replace expensive corporate content management systems. Steve [...]

At FSB the Interns Write and Edit the Magazine

I just got a complimentary copy of Fortune Small Business, September 2005, and happened to turn to the Editor’s Notes. Staring back at me was a smiley group of 18-22 year olds. I thought, hmm… this is an awfully young editorial staff. It turned out that they were interns, which made more [...]

Will Educators Opt to Publish Their Own Textbooks?

Jeff Jarvis has an interesting post in his continuing series on the value of owning content. The following quoute got me thinking about what teachers and professors could do if they teamed up to create their own textbooks, and how publishers are losing their grip on the means of publication.
?We need to create our own [...]

Marketing is Easy When You Control the Means to Information

The “What’s Hot” Plug-in for Google’s new Sidebar tool automatically generates a list of what is most “popular” on the web. Google doesn’t say what criteria the “What’s Hot” titles are based on. They are obviously keeping their own interests in mind with the insertion of titles like “Google Sets Tongues Wagging with [...]

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