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Back in town bullets

Published on June 18, 2005

Back from our sojurn to meet with the developers. Lots going on in the world while we were gone:

Jeff Jarvis uses Amazon’s foray into content as evidence that "distribution is so yesterday." Hmm. I wonder how Amazon will tackle local content?
20% of web users prefer online newspapers. Seems a bit low to me.
Our Gracious Host gets a mention in the DMN on his reportage about bootleg copies of OS X. Inexplicably not online, and the story fails to mention the name or URL of the blog.
Proof that the online business world is full of surprises: Google to take on PayPal?
Lots of marketing lessons from the Contagious Media contest.
The nomenclature of citizen journalism.

Mike Orren is the Chief Product Officer of The Dallas Morning News; President of Belo Business Intelligence; husband to Crystal Orren; and a Mungarian at Munger Place Church in Dallas, TX. All opinions herein are mine alone.