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War costs television networks $77 m in 1st week

Forbes: “Television networks lost $77 million in advertising revenue in the first week of the U.S.-led war on Iraq, research firm CMR said Tuesday.”

I would have never expected this. As a matter of fact, I would have thought the media would have been salivating over the prospect of having all these eyeballs glued to the tube.

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08 April 2003 ~ Comments Off

Open source and global development

John Udell: “The world’s full of smart people who have, collectively, a lot of the intellectual bandwidth needed to absorb and master open-source infrastructure. It’s the scarcity of expertise with the software that has made open source uneconomical in a lot of cases.”

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08 April 2003 ~ Comments Off

Saint Anakin

Did you know that the National Cathedral in Washington features a Darth Vader gargoyle in its west tower?

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02 April 2003 ~ Comments Off

Cable & Wireless names new chief

“The struggling telecoms firm appoints Francesco Caio as its new chief executive.” [ BBC News ]

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