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		<title>Cablevision&#8217;s Business Model is the Problem</title>
		<link>http://www.nevdull.com/2010/03/07/cablevisions-business-model-is-the-problem/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Mar 2010 22:37:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>NevDull</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In watching the fight unfold between Cablevision and Disney/ABC, it&#8217;s plain to see that the largest problem the cable companies have is their adherence to their business model and not picking the right core competency.
Time Warner Cable is asking its customers to support their fight against content providers:

I&#8217;ve recently upgraded my home internet connection to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sustaining the Unsustainable &#8211; Student Loan Debt</title>
		<link>http://www.nevdull.com/2009/05/03/sustaining-the-unsustainable-student-loan-debt/</link>
		<comments>http://www.nevdull.com/2009/05/03/sustaining-the-unsustainable-student-loan-debt/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2009 22:10:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>NevDull</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When you take some time to think about the mortgage crisis that&#8217;s helped turn our markets to mud, it seems to come down to overpaying for things without a well-reasoned calculation of risk.
Until about a month ago, I lived in Greenwich Village in New York, and walked by New York University&#8217;s buildings each day.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spelling does count.</title>
		<link>http://www.nevdull.com/2008/12/15/spelling-does-count/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2008 02:55:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>NevDull</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Spelling does count.  If the sender, subject line, or your message is misspelled, I&#8217;m far more likely to think that it&#8217;s spam and bin it.  I&#8217;m fine with the false positives which may make it into the bit bucket if you didn&#8217;t take the time to figure out how to spell what you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shallow Gene Pool at the Music Genome Project?</title>
		<link>http://www.nevdull.com/2008/08/05/shallow-gene-pool-at-the-music-genome-project/</link>
		<comments>http://www.nevdull.com/2008/08/05/shallow-gene-pool-at-the-music-genome-project/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Aug 2008 16:12:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>NevDull</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Businesses that Suck]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ani Difranco]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Glycerine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pandora]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[While I did create a &#8220;Glycerine&#8221; channel, I&#8217;ve heard an acoustic rendition of Bush&#8217;s Glycerine at least 5 times now on my Ani Difranco channel, and I haven&#8217;t listened that much to Pandora.
I don&#8217;t know if I ran into a flaw in the algorithm, have had strange luck, or if Pandora isn&#8217;t really all that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Horrible RoadRunner Performance &#8211; Shame on Time Warner Cable of New York City</title>
		<link>http://www.nevdull.com/2008/01/25/horrible-roadrunner-performance-shame-on-time-warner-cable-of-new-york-city/</link>
		<comments>http://www.nevdull.com/2008/01/25/horrible-roadrunner-performance-shame-on-time-warner-cable-of-new-york-city/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2008 04:16:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>NevDull</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Businesses that Suck]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Time Warner Cable]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[No-Speed Online]]></category>
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I&#8217;ve got a lot to say about Time Warner Cable of New York and New Jersey in the coming days and weeks.  I&#8217;ll start you out with this screenshot of just the kind of slow speeds I&#8217;m getting on a regular basis.  150ms ping to the first hop isn&#8217;t infrequent, as well as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No Long Tail for Music Downloads?</title>
		<link>http://www.nevdull.com/2007/12/27/no-long-tail-for-music-downloads/</link>
		<comments>http://www.nevdull.com/2007/12/27/no-long-tail-for-music-downloads/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Dec 2007 02:33:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>NevDull</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Digital distribution of music.
The major record labels have fought it to protect the market for their CDs.  They grudgingly signed deals with the likes of Apple, Microsoft, Walmart, Napster, and Rhapsody, with each of those vendors supplying music with DRM.  4 of those 5 chose one vendor&#8217;s technology, the other went it alone.
The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What are the Limits of Ethics in Competition?</title>
		<link>http://www.nevdull.com/2007/10/22/what-are-the-limits-of-ethics-in-competition/</link>
		<comments>http://www.nevdull.com/2007/10/22/what-are-the-limits-of-ethics-in-competition/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Oct 2007 16:02:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>NevDull</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve just received a call at work from a company from which I&#8217;d downloaded some software to take a look at it.  I&#8217;d forgotten downloading it, and it wasn&#8217;t really for anything but my own curiosity&#8230; though it&#8217;s for a product for which my employer already has the bases covered &#8212; we have a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spam, Ham, Subject and From &#8211; Make it easy on me.</title>
		<link>http://www.nevdull.com/2007/09/20/spam-ham-subject-and-from-make-it-easy-on-me/</link>
		<comments>http://www.nevdull.com/2007/09/20/spam-ham-subject-and-from-make-it-easy-on-me/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Sep 2007 20:07:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>NevDull</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Businesses that Suck]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I got an e-mail from Pottery Barn today (don&#8217;t ask), with the subject line: &#8220;Bring all-natural beauty to the bed&#8221;
I knew it was from Pottery Barn because they were nice enough to make the display name for the e-mail state so.
I often have a business relationship with smaller firms who haven&#8217;t thought everything out, or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SCOX about to be Delisted?</title>
		<link>http://www.nevdull.com/2007/09/20/scox-about-to-be-delisted/</link>
		<comments>http://www.nevdull.com/2007/09/20/scox-about-to-be-delisted/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Sep 2007 14:07:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>NevDull</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Businesses that Suck]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I just saw this press release about The SCO Group&#8217;s imminent de-listing.
I certainly wouldn&#8217;t claim to be sad about it&#8230; I think that taking away the avenues for quasi-legitimate funding for SCO makes it harder for the puppet-masters behind the scenes to sneak them dough.  And without dough, their flimsy legal claims can finally [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What makes you think they&#8217;ll get this one right?</title>
		<link>http://www.nevdull.com/2007/05/21/what-makes-you-think-theyll-get-this-one-right/</link>
		<comments>http://www.nevdull.com/2007/05/21/what-makes-you-think-theyll-get-this-one-right/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2007 18:30:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>NevDull</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Businesses that Suck]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Consolidated Edison, the power company in New York City, is planning to deploy a superconducting cable through Manhattan.
The headline for the article?  &#8220;Attack-proof power line to be installed under NY&#8221;
Inside the article?
Superconducting cable must be cooled with liquid nitrogen to -382 degrees Fahrenheit (-230 Celsius). At that point, conductivity resistance falls, allowing the cables [...]]]></description>
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