The number of consumers bypassing the traditional phone network and opting for Internet voice service is soaring beyond expectations.
An analysis by the TeleGeography research group found 2.7 million subscribers nationwide in the second quarter, compared with just 440,000 a year earlier.
I’ve used Packet8 for a couple of years – quite successfully.
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TaxProf summarizes a number of recent articles and documents regarding the ongoing IRS battle with the major accounting firms over 1990’s Tax Shelters. Perhaps most interesting is this 6MB PDF memo sent by several current and former KPMG partners to the US DOJ and the media. This is a fascinating look at the internal politics of a large organization. Lynnley Browning has more:
The accounting firm KPMG is quietly putting the boxing gloves back on. Even as KPMG is in discussions with federal prosecutors to settle a criminal investigation over its sale of what the Internal Revenue Service says are bogus tax shelters, the firm has been taking on former clients who have sued it over those same shelters.
These small xml icons are popping up all over the internet. Clicking on them allows the reader to view a link to the site’s RSS (Really Simple Syndication) page and subscribe to them using a NewsReader. These “feeds” allow the reader to quickly scan headlines and, if interested, view a summary (or in some cases the entire) article. RSS is a very efficient method of reading and sharing information.
Sites can have many RSS feeds, such as Channel3000 or the Washington Post. Isthmus’s Daily Page has a feed, as does WisPolitics.
Getting Started:
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RSS FAQ.
I’ve also posted a brief screencast that demonstrates my use of a RSS NewsReader (NetNewsWire). 13MB Quicktime
We’ve started posting video clips from the recent 2005 All City Swim Meet here.
Jeff Jarvis relates his Dell customer service hassles. I’ve had some too – with a just purchased dead printer at home.
Radical Careering.useful
The world is an increasingly dangerouse place. Research has shown that people need to get inspected to feel secure, even if the actual inspection is a complete farce. Yet as a society we cannot hire half the population to perform bogus inspections on the other half in order to keep up with market demand for perceived security
Classic – read it all.
Legislative Fiscal Bureau (via WisPolitics): Madison’s levy can increase (and therefore will) by 3.3% this year according to the Wisconsin Legislative Fiscal Bureau. This cap is the result of Governor Doyle and the Legislature’s Property Tax “Freeze”.
