An interesting item for sale....
The former Mineral Range Railroad depot in Calumet, Mich., appears to be listed for sale on eBay. Anyone got a spare couple of hundred thousand dollars and a business plan?
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S. @ 8:30AM | 2004-04-15| permalink
Sorry, nothing to do with the post, but I thought you might be interested in this:
"When the 40,000 subscribers to Reason, the monthly libertarian magazine,
receive a copy of the June issue, they will see on the cover a satellite
photo of a neighborhood - their own neighborhood. And their house will
be graphically circled.
On one level, the project, sort of the ultimate in customized
publishing, is unsurprising: of course a magazine knows where its
subscribers live. But it is still a remarkable demonstration of the
growing number of ways databases can be harnessed. Apart from the cover
image, several advertisements are customized to reflect the recipient's
particulars.
Nick Gillespie, editor in chief of Reason, said the magazine, with an
editorial mission of "Free Minds, Free Markets,'' used the stunt to
illustrate the cover article about the power and importance of databases."
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Felix @ 11:47AM | 2004-04-15| permalink
Actually, I was planning to write a blog entry about this later this week, but you beat me to it. These was some discussion about this on Slashdot a few days ago -- did you catch that?
My May issue finally arrived yesterday, by the way.
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S. @ 8:25AM | 2004-04-16| permalink
I haven't see the slashdot stuff. I don't have my own computer at work yet, so I'm having to spend around eight hours a day with no web surfing at all. I'm having withdrawal symptoms.
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