Bomb-A-Tron
It’s so true, and in fact, that site really encompasses why I don’t read the latest wire copies of bombings in Iraq. It’s the same, repetitive, uncreative copy-and-paste wording. Copy editors … the new journalists!
(For those curious, here’s my Bomb-A-Thon™ generated wire copy.)
Car Bomb Attack in Baquba kills 3
By Doug Mehus
Associated Press
Saturday, January 29, 2005; [...]
Entries from January 2005
January 29, 2005
Bomb-A-Tron™, anyone?
January 28, 2005
A little political humour: The President, First Lady, and Dick Cheney…
The President, the First Lady and Dick Cheney are flying on Air Force One.
George looks at Laura, chuckles and says, “You know, I could throw a $1,000.00 bill out the window right now and make somebody very happy.”
Laura shrugs her shoulders and says, “Well, I could throw ten $100.00 bills out the window and make [...]
January 19, 2005
Martha Stewart closing online store, catalog operations
Martha Stewart closing online store, catalog operations: “Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia is closing its money-losing online and catalog businesses in February, according to a notice posted on the company’s Web site.”
Wow, although not entirely unexpected. After Ms. Stewart’s unjust and heavy-handed conviction for lying to investigators about a stock sale of ImClone Systems, Inc., even [...]
January 14, 2005
Trans Canada Credit becomes Wells Fargo Financial Canada
Wells Fargo Brand Expanding in Canada: “Trans Canada Credit Corporation, the consumer finance business that has served Canadians for more than 60 years, announced today it has changed its name effective Jan. 1 to Wells Fargo Financial Corporation Canada. The company remains a Canadian-based and Canadian-managed business, with headquarters in Mississauga.”
That is according to the [...]
January 13, 2005
Thoughts on Honey, we shrunk the Google
Google Blog: Honey, we shrunk the Google
So, Web portal operator Google launched its newest product, the Google Mini, which indexes and sifts through up to 50,000 files, to complement its Google Search Appliance, which searches 100,000 or more documents in a corporate intranet environment. Google says it aims to target small and medium businesses with [...]
January 5, 2005
Six Apart buys LiveJournal and its parent, Danga Interactive
Six Apart, TypePad Buy Danga Interactive: “San Francisco-based Six Apart, developer of the popular Movable Type software and a blogging service called TypePad, is buying Portland, Ore.-based Danga Interactive Inc., which operates LiveJournal, a youthful blogging community.”
That’s what Associated Press business and technology writer Michael Liedtke writes in his latest article for the world’s largest [...]
January 5, 2005
Pitfalls of Geotargeting
Articles from advertising industry online trade publications like ClickZ Network describe the benefits of geotargeting, that is targeting ads to user based on their location. To do this, the geolocation technology, as it’s called frequently by those in the business, primarily uses the user’s IP address, looks up the country of the IP address in [...]
