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The Signal vs. Noise blog reports:

A few weeks ago I posted about the power of blog-based marketing and today I have some more news to report.

In just the first 24 hours of operation, and just through blog word-of-mouth (and subsequent real word of mouth), over 2500 people have signed up for Ta-da List accounts. We haven’t even sent out a note to our few-thousand strong mailing list. 2500 accounts started from a single blog post on SvN. And then more blogs took note.

Impressive! I got wind of it over at Artima Developer Buzz.

A post on the Blog Initiative Germany provides an overview of the recent controversy.

a(nother) perfect illustration:

This Windows knowledgebase suggested fix:

“In the Open box, type ‘Regsvr32 urlmon.dll’?”

Typical.

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The Technology Blog on BusinessWeek Online asks: How do companies respond to blog attacks?

Already, smart companies are monitoring the blog traffic. Many of them, of course, are creating blogs of their own. But the question of how to respond to blogs is going to be so vital, I believe, that it will give birth to an entire new branch of corporate consulting.

I can see it now: Essential blog defense measures…

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Apple Developer Connection Howto: Configuring and Running X11 Applications on Mac OS X

Step 1: Double click X11.app
Step 2: There is no step 2!   :-)

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