Recently readJeff Jarvis:
Yahoo [is] the last old media company to look at the world this way (along with all the older media companies): ‘We control content. We market to get you to come to us. Then we feed you as much advertising as we can, until you leave.’ That’s the centralized model of media. I contrasted […]
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Love him or hate him (I am as likely to be annoyed by him as I am to admire how much he annoys people), web pioneer Dave Winer comes up with plentiful gems. He’s one of those people - like many newspaper columnists and, yes, other bloggers - who you know will always be worth […]
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So Gordon Brown is proposing - with not many details forthcoming yet - a ratings system for the internet. This is to “protect childhood,” of course. Yeah, good luck with that one, smartypants. I wonder if he, like Tony Blair, thinks it’s cute that he is utterly clueless when it comes to the web.
I know […]
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JP nails it, saying “Lock-ins need lock-pickers“:
Somewhere inside my head, there is no difference between my buying a song via the iTunes store and my creating a spreadsheet via Microsoft Excel.
With iTunes, everyone’s up in arms. Everyone understands that DRM of that sort is not a good thing. And people find ways of unlocking the […]
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(Look away now if you find talk about money distasteful.)
Because I am lazy and don’t trust anyone, I’m really dreading having to ship loads of stuff to the US. First there’s the hassle, then the expense, and finally the inevitable arrival of broken possessions. So I’ve decided to be ruthless in what I won’t […]
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If this New York Times profile is anything to go by, Whole Foods is getting to be like that formerly obscure band that you liked until they had the audacity to score a number one.
I love Whole Foods, probably more than I should, in part because it’s so much better than anything we have […]
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[W]hen you work with assholes, you don’t change them for the better, they change you into an asshole.
–Bob Sutton (whose blog hosts a wealth of information about assholes; I think every office should have a copy of his book, The No Asshole Rule) via Chris Yeh
As the a-bomb quotient on this post is so high, […]
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Michael Jennings explains why the formerly nationalised British Telecom is such a pain in the backside here:
Yes, well, BT should have been broken up into a number of pieces prior to privatisation and then the pieces should have been allowed to compete with each other. However like with most British privatisations, the Treasury figured out […]
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When asked a long time ago to define what it meant to me, I said it’s the name we’ll give to the next crash.
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As a customer and evangelist for his products, I’m pretty cheesed off with Matt Mullenweg (someone I like enormously, having met him in San Francisco when I volunteered at WordCamp) and the Automattic team for imposing the dreadful Snap page preview bug (it sure ain’t a feature) on all Wordpress.com blogs. As someone who has […]
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You know, the fact that marketing agencies see Web 2.0 (if they even know what it is) as something to “cope with” rather than a huge opportunity speaks volumes about those agencies. If they’re scared…well, good. They should be, as complete aliens to this world. I mean, a plumber would view wiring as something to […]
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Oh, man. There’s a lamentable piece in PR Week right now about blogging. I must say that the journalist in question, Peter Crush, has actually done a decent job of putting this story together, for the most part. I know smart people who read it and found it useful, and I’m sure others will, too. […]
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Adriana is writing about how dictators have entered the world of Web 2.0, and how companies like Yahoo, Cisco, Microsoft, and Google are helping to enforce the oppression. She adds a bit of her own life experience, as someone who grew up under a totalitarian regime, to the analysis.
I have often said, although have not […]
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It’s the fastest five minutes I’ve ever spent on YouTube, interestingly, and really cheered me up. I’d love to show this (via Guido) to all of the people who love to tell me how there’s nothing especially interesting or earth-shattering about what we are now doing online. Oh, really?
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