Archive for January, 2008

How can a police department humanize its mission and attract fans from around the world?
Easy. Just create a blog featuring a cute, six-week-old German shepherd puppy as your newest recruit.

In the Puppy Diary, the as-yet unnamed dog tracks his life using first-person narrative as he perpares to enter police dog school for the Tayside police [...]

Board Games That Scarred Me For Life
Jason Kaneshiro writes about childhood board game traumas: “I have a depressing childhood memory of playing Monopoly with a friend and running out of money. I wanted to quit but my buddy kept lending me cash - a little bit at a time - which I would instantly lose [...]

Yahoo’s decision to become an OpenID provider is a one-way street, and will serve mainly to enhance Yahoo’s knowledge of its members’ browsing habits away from Yahoo’s many properties.
While Yahoo’s OpenID implementation will add its 250 million registered usernames to the pool of OpenID users, greatly boosting the credibility of the data portability movement.
But the [...]

Further proof, as if any is required, that the music industry is the corporate dinosaur of this century:
To download any of the 37 DRM-free albums Sony is begrudgingly releasing January 15, fans must first go to a Best Buy or Target store, buy a $12.99 plastic card, scrape the ink off a “secret number”, then [...]