Sam Sethi on “Why marketing and PR people kill great companies“:
God I have met so many of these so-called PR professional air-heads, who worry more about the font size in their Powerpoint than the quality of the actual content. The next industry that needs to be disintermediated is the PR business followed by the marketing […]
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So I just incorporated a new company. In fact, it was only incorporated on 19 June. Today, in the post, I had some snail mail spam from Switchmedia (no link love, sorry), telling me about all of the web hosting options they could offer my new company.
Needless to say, they won’t be getting my […]
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I am not a fan of UKIP, but one does not have to be in order to feel all warm and fuzzy inside when watching Tony Blair get his ass handed to him by some UKIP dude. Blair has no choice but to sit there and take it, looking like he just swallowed a swarm […]
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I am enjoying the hell out of this Ben Casnocha post, with contributions from Wired’s Steve Silberman (who I must meet - just must meet) and others. Treat yourself to it.
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This Times piece on blogging tennis players like Andy Murray is worth noting. (Aside: I used to think, as a little girl, that living in London and eating strawberries and cream would be the epitome of a charmed life. These are the delusions that brought me here. I’m glad they did, but still, how silly […]
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I really can’t put into words how gratifying it is to read some of the kind words people have had about What MySpace Means, the event I produced last week for the Engagement Alliance, my non-profit. I would not publish the ones which have come to me via email, but am so pleased to be […]
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It’s an oldie but goodie:
Once the users take control, they never give it back.
Dave Winer said that in 1994. He just re-posted it the other day, but a lot of my readers don’t read Dave, and I like this so much that I’d post it here even if you all did. Ditto for this other […]
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Do these people really believe the things they write? Newsweek on why some movie star is one of the ‘fifteen people who make America great’:
If it wasn’t for Brad Pitt, most Americans would never have heard of Namibia.
Right. And without Brad Pitt, America is less great. Also, if it weren’t for Angelina Jolie, most Americans […]
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Here’s a quick video of Adriana making a very important point about net neutrality at Vloggercon in San Francisco a couple of weekends ago. I am not a big one for downloading huge files and watching several minutes of video in order to get to the chunks I really want to see (yes, instant gratification […]
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Yesterday, I went to the NMA Effectiveness Awards Masterclass at the Soho Hotel, and then to the Samizdata Summer 2006 Party (not an official name, btw) at Samizdata HQ in Chelsea. Late last night, I arrived home with a wine headache. The bits in between were great, though. Photos from the NMA event are here, […]
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You may remember me blogging about Gary Musselman, the currently homeless artist that my friend Amy Alkon discovered at her local Starbucks in Santa Monica, and who we have been trying to help to get back on his feet. I’ve updated Gary’s blog with some new drawings, and a new picture of the artist at […]
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Good meme from Politico’s bookshop owner Iain Dale. Depending on how you define ‘political,’ mine is either:
Trying to explain to my father, when I was four, that it was complete nonsense not to let people live where they damned well want to live just because we have some man-made notions about borders and states. (This, […]
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There was quite a heated debate after Antoine gave his talk at What MySpace Means on Wednesday, which was about the regulation of free speech. Specifically, he talked about how three major areas - money (banking, savings, gambling), power (lobbying and political advertising), and wellness (surgery and medicine) - are highly restricted in terms of […]
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I do love it when other people so eloquently express annoyance at something that I have been worked up about for quite awhile, but have never found the words to explain. Our friend Brian Micklethwait does a very good job in taking on the trad media’s ludicrous scaremongering headlines, illustrated with a cracking photo he […]
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