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Reconsider your Jack of All Trades strategy : How To Be A Good Product Manager: Product management tips
Focused product offerings are more appealing to customers than do-everything offerings.
(tags: productmanagement marketing)

Bigger than Barack - Paul Krugman - Op-Ed Columnist - New York Times Blog
Democratic congressional elections indicate that the progressive mandate is bigger than just Obama.
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Vovici EFM Report: Pragmatic Marketing’s Product Management and Marketing Benchmark Survey for 2008-2009
Results in progress for the 2008-2009 Pragmatic Marketing survey.
(tags: productmanagement)

Obama and the dawn of the Fourth Republic | Salon
It’s a little early for broad historical strokes.
(tags: obama)

Technology | Change.gov
The Obama administration’s technology policy.
(tags: obama)

James Governor’s Monkchips » IBM Joins Obama’s Coalition for a [...]

Chicken chicken chicken
Chicken chicken chicken, chicken, chicken chick chickens. Chicken chicken http://isotropic.org/papers/chicken.pdf.
(tags: humor physics science visualization powerpoint)

Change.gov
So this is what the campaign web staff were cooking up in their spare time.
(tags: 2008 election obama)

Fake WordPress site distributing backdoored release | Zero Day | ZDNet.com
Social engineering, fake domain, and backdoors, oh my.
(tags: wordpress)

FCC OKs use of white spaces to deliver broadband
This is probably the most significant non-election related news from yesterday. Too much spectrum has been locked up for too long.
(tags: broadband technology policy)

CNN Political Ticker: All politics, all the time Blog Archive - Palin discusses her future « - Blogs from CNN.com
“As she [...]

WordPress 2.7 Comments Enhancements
Enabling the new WordPress 2.7 comments functionality in a legacy template. Very interesting.
(tags: wordpress)

Say good-bye to Circuit City | The Digital Home - Don Reisinger’s take on the tech closest to home - CNET News
I don’t think this will be the last marginal retailer to go by the wayside in the next [...]

Annals of Democracy: Rock, Paper, Scissors: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker
Brilliantly written review of the history of the vote in America, including fisticuffs and the importing of secret voting from Australia.
(tags: 2008 election)

Melting into Air: A Critic at Large: The New Yorker
It’s tempting to sniff about critics who don’t understand finance making precious analogies [...]

Kids Halloween Candy Code
The Candy Code! I’m particularly amused by the chalk drawing that means “produced in a factory that processes nuts and oils.”
(tags: halloween humor)

Axiotron : Modbook
Interesting tablet mod of a Mac, with a killer service option to convert an existing Macbook.
(tags: mac)

New president-elect may move quickly to fill jobs | Reuters
Interesting speculation on [...]

estaminet: women’s “health”
Interesting and righteous take on the abortion rights issue. You go, cafe!
(tags: 2008 election debate obama mccain)

Errol Morris’ “real people” ads for Obama - Boing Boing
Qualitative research, or anecdotes? Interesting profiles of Republicans and independents voting for Obama.
(tags: 2008 election obama)

Announcing BailoutSleuth.com « blog maverick
What will we follow obsessively once the election is [...]

Yes We Can remix: Lee Dorsey’s funk classic meets Obama speech - Boing Boing
Yes We Can remix record. Lee Dorsey ftw.
(tags: 2008 election obama funk)

C-Ville: Reviews - Rock in the rearview mirror
C-Ville’s review is positive but I think a little misguided. A song about fleeing the state after burning down a house (metaphorically or literally) [...]

FlickrDown lets you archive all your Flickr photos | Webware : Cool Web apps for everyone - CNET
Get your Flickr photos out of the trunk.
(tags: flickr)

Snow? Did somebody say snow? | Universal Hub
The French Toast alert system is back!!
(tags: boston weather)

ATF disrupts skinhead plot to assassinate Obama
I’m surprised it took this long for someone to [...]

Crow (The Good Ol’ Blog)
Yes, I’m eating it too. Go Hoos!
(tags: uva virginia football)

Do you know what to do? (Scripting News)
Quick steps if you get turned away at the polls. Key is call 1-866-OURVOTE or 866ourvote.org.
(tags: 2008 election)

For Obama, a Melancholy Biography Tour - NYTimes.com
As someone who lost his last grandparent in January, I have to say this is among the most personally moving articles this election cycle. Mrs. Dunham, our thoughts and prayers and blessings with you and your grandson.
(tags: 2008 election obama)

American Civil Liberties Union : Fact Sheet on U.S. “Constitution Free Zone”
Time to reign in the border patrol. Unreasonable search and seizure 100 miles from the border is a moronic extension of the Border Patrol’s powers.
(tags: constitution aclu bush)

The Tin Man » Balance
Nice summary of McCain’s uphill battle in the last ten days of the [...]

Social Security: we have always been at war with Eastasia - Paul Krugman - Op-Ed Columnist - New York Times Blog
Why did Social Security privatization fail? And why is it so hard to tell the story straight?
(tags: 2008 election socialsecurity economy bush mccain)

Review: A few days with the T-Mobile G1, the first Google Android phone [...]

PhotoCopy keeps iPhoto and Flickr synced | Webware : Cool Web apps for everyone - CNET
An automated iPhoto to Flickr sync engine sounds good but doesn’t solve my problem–sharing some photos while setting privacy settings on others.
(tags: macosx iphoto flickr)

Make: television preview - Boing Boing
JP makes BoingBoing–a post about the new Make TV preview reel [...]