Apparently, the webcasting deal passed the House Judiciary Committee, that’s a big step to final passage. Looks like the webcasters had to swallow some higher rates than they wanted in order to avoid the CARP fees kicking in, but at least this is back to being based on a percent of revenue, like broadcast radio has been for years.
I haven’t followed this deal too closely, but Doc’s got all the links and insight.
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New Kazaa stealing referral links: “The newest version of Kazaa contains code which will rewrite URLs to sites like Amazon.com which allows affiliates to earn commission from sales they refer to Amazon. If you were to have this software installed and click through one of Lockergnome’s book links to Amazon, Kazaa would end up getting…
I saw a couple of days ago that there were some plugins available, linked from the Live Writer site. One of them was a tagging plugin, exactly what I thought this sucker was missing. I grabbed that and the Flickr plugin and then opened up the Writer, only to discover that none of them worked. I…
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She mentions a round of layoffs as an example of breaking trust, and I’m glad she included that. All too often, when a round of layoffs occurs, senior management will return to talking about the culture or set of core values they expect all employees to follow without ever acknowledging that it’s different now. You can’t just return to talking about the importance of teamwork and diversity when you just canned 10% of the team as if nothing happened.