January 18, 2001 - From Minnesota Public Radio this is Future Tense for January 18th. I'm Jon Gordon. Today, unloading a whole life on eBay. ((tease cut)) Last year, John Freyer of Iowa City, Iowa came to the conlcusion he owned too many things. So he decided to sell a few items on eBay. Make that a lot of things: Freyer--an artist and University of Iowa graduate student--is trying to sell just about everything he owns. What started as an effort to reduce clutter has turned into a full-blown exercise in interactive multimedia art. Freyer's Web site --allmylifeforsale.com-- has links to what he's selling on eBay...and explains how he wants to track all the things he's sold, and maybe even take a road trip to visit his old stuff. He's unloading some everyday things like clothes and furniture...but nothing is sacred.
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January 16, 2001 - From Minnesota Public Radio, this is Future Tense for January 16th. I'm Jon Gordon. Today...do we expect too much from Internet companies when it comes to protecting our privacy? A Microsoft executive says yes. First...this news. Hoping to boost sagging profits, wireless giant Motorola will shut down its only U-S cellphone factory and lay off about 2,500 plant employees. The jobs being cut in Harvard, Ill., represent nearly 2 percent of Motorola's work force of 130,000. Motorola has pledged
January 15, 2001 - Concern that recent court rulings against internet software robots could restrict public access to the internet.
January 12, 2001 - Ginger, a new technology, is speculated, trying to figure out what it is. A big guess that it might be an electronic unicycle that will be a new form of transportation.
January 11, 2001 - A consumer's guide to satellite radio.
January 3, 2001 - From Minnesota Public Radio this is Future Tense for January 3rd. I'm Jon Gordon. Selling your old stuff on the Internet auction site eBay is pretty common these days. But Vicki Richman can lay claim to having unloaded an unusual item. She sold a Minneapolis hotel on eBay for two and a half million dollars--avoiding a six-figure commission in the process. Richman, vice president of Minneapolis-based American Hospitality Management, says it all started after she decided to put the University Avenue Econo-Lodge on the market. ((richman q/a)) Vicki Richman of American Hospitality Management in Minneapolis. She's planning to list another hotel on eBay: a Holiday Inn Express in Florida. This is Future Tense...I'm Jon Gordon.
January 2, 2001 - From Minnesota Public Radio...this is Future Tense for January 2nd. I'm Jon Gordon. "The social story of the Internet is one that often gets lost when people are paying so much attention to the rise and fall of dotcom companies. And really the bigger impact on our culture is changing the way we deal with each other."
January 2, 2001 - Our techno-moron awards for the year past. There have been many positive developments in technology as well as not-so-positive developments that are anti-customer behavior.
December 28, 2000 - December has been a bad month for .coms and January looks even worse.