Posted on August 12th, 2008 by Jackie Danicki
My friend Brian Micklethwait is on classic form, from Pimlico (London):
In failing neighbourhoods, nobody does anything about electronic noises except regret them, on their blogs if they have blogs, otherwise silently. In “successful” neighbourhoods, the damn neighbours are all over you at the slightest excuse, borrowing sugar, wanting you to have their keys […]
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Posted on March 18th, 2007 by Jackie Danicki
Jeff 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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Posted on March 18th, 2007 by Jackie Danicki
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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Posted on March 8th, 2007 by Jackie Danicki
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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Posted on March 7th, 2007 by Jackie Danicki
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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Posted on February 20th, 2007 by Jackie Danicki
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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Posted on February 20th, 2007 by Jackie Danicki
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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Posted on February 17th, 2007 by Jackie Danicki
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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Posted on February 15th, 2007 by Jackie Danicki
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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Posted on February 9th, 2007 by Jackie Danicki
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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Posted on February 6th, 2007 by Jackie Danicki
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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Posted on February 5th, 2007 by Jackie Danicki
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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Posted on February 2nd, 2007 by Jackie Danicki
[A]s I’ve discovered through ten years of living with a computer geek - if I may generalize about all computer geeks - is that they really like to overexplain the fucking shit out of everything. Whether you understand it or not.
This also applies, in my experience, to history geeks and political geeks.
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Posted on February 2nd, 2007 by Jackie Danicki
I was supposed to spend some quality time with Adriana yesterday, not having seen her since we were working together in New York last week, but unfortunately was (am) still unwell. Well, my loss is your gain, as it looks like she finally got down to some blogging. I am always yelling at her to […]
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