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Mayne case study

Wednesday, December 14th, 2005

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Electrocomponents case study

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Cisco expects 500% growth in content-rich, bandwidth-hungry multimedia

Wednesday, December 14th, 2005

The CEO of IP giant Cisco Systems is predicting that the online video boom will boost Internet traffic by over 500% over the next few years. more…
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Easy does it

Wednesday, December 14th, 2005

Avanquest intros Web Easy Professional 6 site design tools more…
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First content deal for telco

Wednesday, December 14th, 2005

BBC Worldwide, Paramount and Warner Music sign on with BT more…
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Stellent QAS notches up 2005 Information Management award

Wednesday, December 14th, 2005

Intranet voted best knowledge management implementation more…
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SurfKitchen cooks up Orange content

Wednesday, December 14th, 2005

Mobile content gets boost with Orange Downloads more…
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Small business data protection fines could top £100 million

Wednesday, December 14th, 2005

SMEs violating DPA, £5k penalties pending more…
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CyberGuard spruces up Webwasher Content Reporter

Wednesday, December 14th, 2005

V4.6 simplified reporting on web, mail and content compliance for dispersed organisations more…
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Mobius moves close to the edge

Wednesday, December 14th, 2005

Compliant content and records management for Sun Microsystems’ StorEdge more…
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Akamai drives digital rights management for media monetisation

Wednesday, December 14th, 2005

New Windows Media DRM for managing and distributing media assets more…
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Content management goes mobile with MOMA

Wednesday, December 14th, 2005

MOMA platform for company’s I-mode application more…
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Icelandair Group invests in VYRE ECM

Wednesday, December 14th, 2005

The Icelandair Group, the dynamic Icelandic airline group, has chosen VYRE ECM to manage their extensive and diverse websites more…
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The Tic and Market Maker Choose VYRE ECM to run at least 280 Websites for SME’s

Wednesday, December 14th, 2005

The Technology Innovation Centre and Market Maker have added VYRE ECM to their impressive technology portfolio more…
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VYRE ECM: Version 4.2 Product Launch at CME 2005

Wednesday, December 14th, 2005

One year after the release of VYRE ECM, Version 4, Content Management Europe sees the release of Version 4.2 of the product more…
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Mediasurface announces preview of Morello Web Client

Wednesday, December 14th, 2005

Unrivalled usability with extended reach and speed of deployment. more…
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Mobile audio-video conferencing ‘a rip-off’, Mobix

Wednesday, December 14th, 2005

When audio conferencing was new, telecoms companies imposed a bridging charge to link conference users. Now operators earn revenue share from numbers such as 0870, yet they are still charging bridging fees on top. This hidden charge is costing UK business more than £30m a year, comments Gary Andersen-Jones, VP of mobile conferencing firm Mobix. […]

BridgeHead and OptoMedia make enterprise-class storage management accessible to SMEs

Wednesday, December 14th, 2005

Bulldog storage management designed with small and mid-sized in mind more…
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Firm makes $865,000 savings from Stellent-powered e-government initiative

Wednesday, December 14th, 2005

Scott County receives ‘process innovation award’ for Stellent Universal Content Management more…
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.NET gets CMS 2005

Wednesday, December 14th, 2005

ADXSTUDIO releases CMS 2005 content management framework for ASP.NET 2.0 more…
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.NET gets CMS 2005

Wednesday, December 14th, 2005

ADXSTUDIO releases CMS 2005 content management framework for ASP.NET 2.0 more…
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.NET gets CMS 2005

Wednesday, December 14th, 2005

ADXSTUDIO releases CMS 2005 content management framework for ASP.NET 2.0 more…
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CAT prowls as software removes language barriers

Wednesday, December 14th, 2005

Translution enables users to communicate in other languages more…
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Vertical take-off for IBM’s e-forms

Wednesday, December 14th, 2005

Big Blue adds electronic forms to Workplace for verticals more…
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Gartner lauds Open Text, again

Wednesday, December 14th, 2005

Open Text named in leaders quadrant in enterprise content management report more…
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Mediasurface exhibits at CME2005

Wednesday, December 14th, 2005

Line up includes high-profile government speaker, product launch and iPod giveaways. more…
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RedDot opens doors to wikis, blogs and integrated portals

Wednesday, December 14th, 2005

CMS 6.5 and LiveServer 2.3 turn emails and docs into websites, e-marketing and newsletters more…
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5.1 surround for Ektron CMS400 with .NET

Wednesday, December 14th, 2005

New functionality in Ektron’s .NET-based web content management, memberships, alerts, advanced search more…
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Day Unveils Communiqué 4 Delivering Most Open and Standardised Content Management Solution on Market

Wednesday, December 14th, 2005

Communiqué 4 along with CRX and Connector Products Set to Revolutionise Content Infrastructure for the Enterprise more…
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Day’s 2005 Global Customer Summit Focuses on Next Generation Content Management Solutions

Wednesday, December 14th, 2005

Summit Brings Together Customers and Partners To Discuss Evolving Global Content Management Market more…
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Day Reports Financial Results for Third Quarter for Fiscal Year 2005

Wednesday, December 14th, 2005

Company Increases Profitability on Record Third Quarter Revenues more…
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Big Blue tracks blogs, web content

Wednesday, December 14th, 2005

IBM moves in on new media content to capture buzz, spot trends for companies, products and marketing campaigns more…
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Mediasurface named in Government’s top 750 UK R&D investors list

Wednesday, December 14th, 2005

9th November 2005, Newbury UK: Mediasurface plc (ticker: MSR), the leading AIM listed content management provider has today announced that it has been named as one of the top 750 UK companies listed in the 2005 Department for Trade and Industry’s (DTI) R&D ‘scoreboard’. The scoreboard, which lists the top companies investing in R&D across […]

Mediasurface v5.3 boosts website creation

Wednesday, December 14th, 2005

Instant Site helps fast website creation capability more…
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RedDot Solutions drives the National Archive website

Wednesday, December 14th, 2005

Bringing 1,000 years of British history to the web more…
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OpenText takes charge as revenue growth moves ahead

Wednesday, December 14th, 2005

ECM firm reports Q1 2006 financial results more…
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Autonomy seeks truth, acquires Verity

Wednesday, December 14th, 2005

Search firm acquired by infrastructure giant more…
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Streamlining the support process at Reg Vardy

Wednesday, December 14th, 2005

Reg Vardy plc, one of Europe’s largest motor retailers, sells over 150,000 vehicles per year and manages stocks of 10,000 new and used vehicles at any one time. The company’s origins date back to the 1920s, when founder, Reg Vardy, began a
haulage business at Houghton-le-Spring, just a few miles from the cathedral city of Durham. […]

Sift Sponsors e-Democracy ‘05 event, 2 Nov 2005

Wednesday, December 14th, 2005

“Sift is sponsoring the e-Democracy 2005 conference in London on 9 November 2005, held in association with Hansard Society and Headstar. (www.headstar-events.com/edemocracy) Lawrence Clarke, Head of Services at Sift will be a panelist in the event’s “Local e-Democracy” interactive workshop session, chaired by Alex Bax of the Greater London Authority. The workshop also features speakers […]

Oasis’ SEE seeks sanctuary for SOA

Wednesday, December 14th, 2005

New open source OASIS committee organises to provide semantic foundation for SOA more…
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TheLawyer.com named ‘Best Business Website of the Year’ 2005

Wednesday, December 14th, 2005

TheLawyer.com has won Business Website of the Year in the Association of Online Publishers awards – the ‘industry Oscars’ for online publishers. more…
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Sift facilitates Ark Group’s accessibility and usability conference workshop

Wednesday, December 14th, 2005

Sift has been invited by Ark Group, a leading business information provider, to facilitate the full-day workshop of its “Public sector online services: delivering and maintaining accessible and usable websites” conference in London on 21-23 November 2005. more…
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Intertek opts for Mediasurface to interlink business division websites

Wednesday, December 14th, 2005

31st October 2005, Newbury UK: Mediasurface plc (ticker: MSR), the leading AIM listed content management provider has today announced the launch of a new customer website www.intertek.com. Intertek, the leading international testing, inspection and certification organisation, is using Mediasurface’s Morello and content management suite to enable better management of its important web resources. more…
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Digital asset management goes online

Wednesday, December 14th, 2005

Sony Brand Media Manager launched as online service more…
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Testing time for Intertek

Wednesday, December 14th, 2005

Firm opts for Mediasurface content management to interlink divisional websites more…
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Buyers beware

Wednesday, December 14th, 2005

Users may know what the enterprise wants but are they prepared to commit what is required to get it? ECM is a business strategy not a technology but shall we tell the users asks Paul Attridge, VP Life Sciences (Europe) for First Consulting Group more…
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Creating a web strategy

Wednesday, December 14th, 2005

The best starting point for determining a website strategy is to understand both the market that an organisation operates within and the needs of its key stakeholders argues Matt Goode, marketing manager, Immediacy more…
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EMC acquires Captiva

Wednesday, December 14th, 2005

Move into information lifecycle management for storage bellwether more…
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Divide and rule

Wednesday, December 14th, 2005

Agambs Partitioner 1.1 for Oracle-based EMC Documentum repositories more…
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Magic moment for Stellent

Wednesday, December 14th, 2005

Stellent named in ‘visionary’ quadrant in financial compliance process management software report more…
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Is your site accessible to the disabled?

Wednesday, December 14th, 2005

Website accessibility compliance runs deeper and wider than many web developers, designers and owners think says Nigel Jackson. more…
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iView snaps new vista on digital asset management

Wednesday, December 14th, 2005

MediaPro 3.0 proffers workflow, image manipulation and cataloguing more…
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Coaching service for mobile access

Wednesday, December 14th, 2005

Commuters travelling into London on Kings Ferry coaches will no longer feel out of touch following the introduction of an onboard wireless broadband service. more…
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Datastream ’safety net’ touts XML tools for government databases

Wednesday, December 14th, 2005

Firm offers new legislative impact analysis tools more…
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Plumtree plants firm foundations

Wednesday, December 14th, 2005

Software firm unveils G6 Product Suite, Process, Collaboration more…
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IT drowning in badly-managed information

Wednesday, December 14th, 2005

Major concerns regarding accuracy and compliance more…
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InterContinental Hotels Group launches EMEA Intranet

Wednesday, December 14th, 2005

10th October 2005, Newbury, UK: Mediasurface today announced that it has enabled the Intercontinental Hotels Group (IHG) to launch the first phase of its new global intranet. more…
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Integrated intranet for InterContinental

Wednesday, December 14th, 2005

Hotels group completes phase 1 EMEA Intranet launch more…
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Pennsylvania State University Selects Day To Streamline and Improve Access to Library System

Wednesday, December 14th, 2005

Campus-Wide Deployment Will Serve 83,000 Students more…
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Saatchi & Saatchi Interactive partners with Box UK

Wednesday, December 14th, 2005

Agency to develop major content management solution more…
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The next knowledge management revolution

Wednesday, December 14th, 2005

Automating managed knowledge using natural language processing technology more…
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BEA Selects Day as Provider of JSR 170 Bridge

Wednesday, December 14th, 2005

Day Extends BEA Partnership with Agreement to Deliver JSR 170 Repository Connector for BEA WebLogic Portal
BEAWorld 2005—PARIS and BASEL, Switzerland and IRVINE, Calif.—October 13 2005—BEA Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: BEAS), one of the world’s leading application infrastructure software companies, and Day Software (SWX: DAYN, OTC:DYIHY), a leading provider of global content management and content infrastructure software, […]

Big Blue rolls tape drive

Wednesday, December 14th, 2005

IBM spools expansion of data archival for compliance and resilience more…
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RedDot tackles Rugby Union’s Guinness Premiership

Wednesday, December 14th, 2005

Will Wasps retain the title for a historic fourth year, or will Tigers topple them? more…
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Tatara touts smart content delivery for wireless

Wednesday, December 14th, 2005

Partnership enables mobile content service providers more…
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Star’s in their eyes

Wednesday, December 14th, 2005

Avanquest partners Sun for new StarOffice 8 in Europe more…
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Whistle while you work

Wednesday, December 14th, 2005

The records manager of a key ‘magic circle’ law firm has estimated that every lawyer in the UK spends at least an hour a day looking for files more…
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Acoustica simplifies audio content management

Wednesday, December 14th, 2005

Digital music editing and optimising software adds metadata more…
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3i maps out investment decision-making with knowledge management tool

Wednesday, December 14th, 2005

It’s all in the mind more…
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Premiere Radio: International Internet Radio

Wednesday, December 14th, 2005

Premier Radio Networks syndicates more than 60 radio programs, creating more than 7,800 radio affiliations throughout the United States. more…
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McDonalds: Global Enterprise Systems

Wednesday, December 14th, 2005

McDonald’s Corporation is the world’s largest Food Service organisation and one of the most recognised brands on the planet. more…
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DaimlerChrysler: Worldwide Internet

Wednesday, December 14th, 2005

DaimlerChrysler is one of the world’s leading automobile manufacturers with 362,100 employees. more…
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Day Submits Next Version of Content Repository Standard

Wednesday, December 14th, 2005

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Factiva keeps road warriors in the loop

Wednesday, December 14th, 2005

Content service for news and sales leads to mobile professionals more…
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XyEnterprise provides S1000D common source database for multichannel delivery

Wednesday, December 14th, 2005

Company supports military applications with S1000D publishing environments more…
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Content goes Blackberry Way

Wednesday, December 14th, 2005

EPAM supports mobile applications with content management system more…
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Haute cuisine for Qpass mobile data content

Wednesday, December 14th, 2005

SurfKitchen joins Qpass for mobile data user experience more…
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EMC and Adobe tie up to promote XMP and iECM standardisation

Wednesday, December 14th, 2005

Firms address need for common integration layer between ECM platforms more…
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FileNet buys into compliance with $11m acquisition

Wednesday, December 14th, 2005

Yaletown Technology Group deal puts enterprise content management giant back on track more…
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Alliance targets compliance and records management

Wednesday, December 14th, 2005

Meridio and Getronics link up for unstructured enterprise content management initiative more…
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Hummingbird Genio 6.0 takes data and content integration to next level

Wednesday, December 14th, 2005

New parallel processing, more platforms supported more…
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Oracle reports earnings up 38%

Wednesday, December 14th, 2005

Apps revenue rises 84%, middleware up 33% more…
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Rock and roll DAM nation

Wednesday, December 14th, 2005

Open Text’s Artesia digital asset management supports creative workflows, support for Adobe InDesign CS2 more…
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McInnis Canyons NCA Advisory Council to meet

Wednesday, December 14th, 2005

GRAND JUNCTION, CO - The McInnis Canyons National Conservation Area Advisory Council will hold a quarterly meeting at 3 p.m., on Wednesday, December 7, at the Mesa County Administration Bldg, 544 Rood Ave, Grand Junction.
"This Advisory Council advises the Bureau of Land Management in managing the resource area," McInnis Canyons… more…
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Dominguez/Bridgeport - preserving our past for the future

Wednesday, December 14th, 2005

GRAND JUNCTION, CO - The Bureau of Land Management Grand Junction Field Office, in partnership with the U.S. Forest Service and the Museum of Western Colorado’s Loyd Files Research Library, will be conducting interviews for the Bridgeport - Big Dominguez Canyon Oral History Project on Friday, December 2, 2005. Ed… more…
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BLM implements annual winter closures

Wednesday, December 14th, 2005

GLENWOOD SPRINGS, CO - The Bureau of Land Management Glenwood Springs Field Office begins closing several gates for the winter season on Thursday, December 1. These seasonal closures occur annually to provide crucial big game winter range, protect municipal watersheds, and prevent road damage under muddy conditions. These seasonal closures… more…
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Community partnership benefits Tabeguache Trail

Wednesday, December 14th, 2005

GRAND JUNCTION, CO - The Bureau of Land Management Grand Junction Field Office benefits from numerous long-term working relationships with its community partners. One such invaluable partnership, with the Western Slope ATV Association (WSATVA) and Colorado State Parks, will be celebrated at 11 a.m., Thursday, December 1, 2005, at the… more…
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Energy Bill brings tangible benefits to Glenwood Springs

Wednesday, December 14th, 2005

GLENWOOD SPRINGS, CO - Bureau of Land Management’s Glenwood Springs Field Office is named in the Energy Policy Act of 2005 as one of seven Pilot Project offices selected to implement improvements in coordinating, processing and monitoring oil and gas use authorizations. The Bill establishes teams to examine how to… more…
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Temporary closure at Bridgeport extended

Wednesday, December 14th, 2005

GRAND JUNCTION, CO - The Bureau of Land Management Grand Junction Field Office is constructing a new pedestrian bridge that will provide outdoor enthusiasts with safe and legal access to Dominguez Canyon. Concerns with public safety during construction have prompted BLM to extend its temporary closure of public land access… more…
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BLM seasonal road closures in effect December 1

Wednesday, December 14th, 2005

GRAND JUNCTION, CO - The Bureau of Land Management Grand Junction Field Office will implement seasonal road closures on December 1. These roads will reopen to motorized use on May 1, 2006, with the exception of the Coal Canyon road, in the Little Book Cliffs Wild Horse Area, which will… more…
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BLM Christmas tree permits available beginning November 21

Wednesday, December 14th, 2005

GRAND JUNCTION, CO - Bureau of Land Management Christmas tree permits will go on sale Monday, November 21, at the BLM Grand Junction Field Office, 2815 H Rd, and the Glade Park Store. Permits will be available 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday through Friday, at the BLM office, and… more…
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MESA COUNTY/BLM LAUNCH ONLINE MINERAL OWNERSHIP TOOL

Wednesday, December 14th, 2005

GRAND JUNCTION, CO - The Bureau of Land Management Grand Junction Field Office has partnered with Mesa County to develop an online tool allowing property owners to search mineral ownership by entering a parcel number, their address or the area or township. Likely the first of its kind in the… more…
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Nomination Deadline Extended for Wild Horse and Burro Advisory Board

Wednesday, December 14th, 2005

The Bureau of Land Management is extending until November 30, 2005, the deadline for public nominations to fill three vacancies on the national Wild Horse and Burro Advisory Board. The categories to be filled represent Humane Advocacy, Livestock Management, and Wildlife Management. more…
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Random thoughts for December 08, 2005

Wednesday, December 14th, 2005

We have this big empty loft next door where we’re about to start construction on another eleven offices. In the meantime it’s serving as a temporary ping-pong room.

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Fog Creek Goes to ETech

Wednesday, December 14th, 2005

We gave all the Fog Creek programmers a choice of
which conference to attend this spring, from a long list
of about 12 conferences, and all of them wanted to go to
ETech.
So that’s where you’ll find us next March. It was incredibly
interesting last year — most of the presentations, especially the ones that weren’t given by the […]

Aardvark’d DVDs Ship; Final P&L

Wednesday, December 14th, 2005

Agckphbft. I didn’t expect so many of you to order the DVD of the movie we made here, Aardvark’d: 12 Weeks with Geeks. I thought we’d get about 1000 orders. So far, we’ve received about 2600 orders, which went to 55 different countries, including Kazakhstan. We even sent a copy to someone in New Orleans.
Now, […]

Reading List

Wednesday, December 14th, 2005

I’ve posted a very preliminary reading list for the Fog Creek Software Management Training Program.
Who do I imagine will be interested in this program? Based on the applications we’ve received so far, it’s the kind of people who would have gone into entry-level associates programs at management consulting firms and technology integrators. They’re expecting to work […]

Price as Signal

Wednesday, December 14th, 2005

Forbes: “EMI Group boss Alain Levy said at press conference today that he believed Jobs would introduce multiple price points for iTunes music within the next year.”
The story they’re trying to tell you is that “older, less popular songs could be discounted, and in-demand singles could go for more than a dollar.”
Let’s think this through, […]

Aardvark’d DVD Goes on Sale

Wednesday, December 14th, 2005

Last March, when we were starting to plan our summer internships, I was disappointed by the massive bogusness of the so-called “business challenges” on the TV show The Apprentice. From the posts over on the discussion groups, it was apparent to me that people were really excited to see each new episode, and then consistently […]