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Consumers shaping products

From NYTimes:  Crest, a division of Procter & Gamble, is asking people to go to the Web to vote for their favorite from a short list of contenders: lemon ice, sweet berry punch or tropica exotica. Samples of the flavors are attached to some Crest products…. Marketing executives say the campaign reflects an increasing interest by companies in involving consumers ...

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SF Chronicle podcasting

Hear the story behind the story as Chronicle managing editor Robert Rosenthal talks with Alicia Parlette, a 23-year-old copy editor and writer, about her series of personal stories on battling a rare form of cancer. Link to podcast

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Adopt a Chinese Blog!

Cool! Be sure you go check this page out. It’s a page dedicated to adopting Chinese Bloggers. Since their country is so restrective on what they are allowed to post  often ISP’s in China will self-censor and remove Blogs they don’t agree with. This Web Site let’s you "adopt" a blog and host here in the USA. That way it ...

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Creating Value from Recombinations

After reading the article on MSNBC on the digitizing of libraries my work group got into a discussion on the value of comodotized old data.  The conclusion  we came to was that the research paper as we know it is a 1980’s relic.  The new value and the engine upon which the new economy will be built on is the ...

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