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Jim Muttram

End of an era?

Just read a very thought-provoking post by Jeff Jarvis which argues that the economic woes we are facing aren't just another economic downturn (even if a big one) but something more fundamental: the start of a large reshaping of entire industries being wrought by the…

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Jim Muttram

A fresh start in 2009?

I've been reflecting about this blog over the Christmas and New Year break. I started it, unbelievably, in September 2005 just ahead of the RBI Editor's Conference on the 22nd. The original purpose was to illustrate a point: that self-publishing using blogging software was powerful,…

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Jim Muttram

More power to Google Docs

Robert Scoble has a couple of video interviews with the guys behind Panorama, an OLAP product available through Google Spreadsheets as a gadget. Part one is here and part two here. The second part shows how a free connector for Salesforce.com works. Clever stuff, and…

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Jim Muttram

Twitternap makes the FT

Mike Butcher, the UK arm of Techcrunch, is squatting the online identity of culture secretary Andy Burnham in protest at his suggestion that a cinema-style rating system might be introduced for the internet. According to the FT techblog, which reports on the incident at length,…

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