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Jane Fonda Regrets Vietnam “Betrayal” in 60 Minutes Interview, My Life So Far Book Plug

Monday, April 4th, 2005

Jane Fonda’s 60 minutes interview has Fonda sharing regrets regarding the Vietnam “Betrayal” photo op. The controversial 1972 North Vietnamese gun site photo gave Fonda the nickname “Hanoi Jane” and stirred emotions in an emotional time. The interview serves nicely as a plug for Jane Fonda: My Life So Far, due in stores […]

About.com, Mega Directory Sold to New York Times by Primedia

Saturday, February 19th, 2005

Aboout.com will become part of the NY Times. 410 million in cash and you too can have a major directory portal. So what can the NYT do with a major Internet portal that are Google, Yahoo, the AOL unit of Time Warner and AskJeeves, can’t do? There must be something, because $410 million […]

Google Blogger Mark Jen Fired, Blog to Blame, or Poor Judgement.

Sunday, February 13th, 2005

Mark Jen was fired from Google on Jan 28th. However, he seems to have learned a lot fast regarding how, in addition to the obvious rules within an organization, it is possible to step on toes simply by airing laundry, regardless of whether that laundry is clean or dirty.
Organizations are mad up of people, […]