The Ron Paul Effect

Posted on October 17, 2007 by Ben Cecka

If I see something in my feeds with the name “Ron Paul” anywhere in the title or description I’m going to ignore it. I don’t even want to take the time anymore to go vote it down on Digg or Reddit for being lame campaign spam.
Could this be a case of online overmarketing? Burnout? Am [...]

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The Machine is Us/ing Us

Posted on October 7, 2007 by Ben Cecka

If anything on the Web is ever to be considered sexy, this is it (sorry for the repost for anyone that got this on my family blog):

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5 Reasons Why Facebook Trumps MySpace

Posted on October 1, 2007 by Ben Cecka

Organization - Logical networks compared to… a massive pool of users, their pets, bands (some of them can tune), bands pets, and whatever else you can think of. I’ll take a little structure with my Social Network thank you.
Culture - Let’s see here. One of us is run by a young, energetic, college (Harvard) poster-boy, [...]

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Sourcefire aquires ClamAV

Posted on September 22, 2007 by Ben Cecka

Having been a longtime supporter of the ClamAV project, I was interested to see the headline, Open Source Antivirus: ClamAV project sold to Sourcefire. ClamWin is actually the product that I’ve used extensively in the past. Our new self-service kiosk project at work is running this and doing beautifully through the test period.
The group was [...]

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How to Spread an Idea

Posted on August 21, 2007 by Ben Cecka

Simple. Watch Seth Godin’s presentation to Google last year.

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Why Linux? Windows Is Free!

Posted on August 16, 2007 by Ben Cecka

I read a very interesting article published by a member of the Tokyo Linux Users Group titled, Windows Is Free. Basically, the author is saying that because Microsoft Windows can be pirated, it can be compared to Linux at the same price level. Since most Linux distributions are free, as in free beer, and Windows [...]

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