Posted on March 15th, 2007 by Jackie Danicki
Live it, learn it, love it:
Individuals often have more control over the online environment than off-line. Paradoxically, many commentators bemoan the fact that people online are self-obsessed, they talk about the echo chamber. At the same time, they also complain about the lack of awareness, sophistication and professionalism of online interactions. Both may be (and […]
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Posted on March 9th, 2007 by Jackie Danicki
Jeff Jarvis says that, even if everybody doesn’t “get it”* (which the Guardian’s Alan Rusbridger thinks they do):
everybody realizes they have to [innovate].
Jeff’s talking in the context of newspapers, and I dunno, maybe he’s right. Personally, I still know a hell of a lot of newspaper folk who truly don’t realise that they have to […]
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Posted on February 22nd, 2007 by Jackie Danicki
This, via Perry, is bang on:
What scofflaws need now, and what the majority of our population will wish for in the future, probably at the point where the government finally does try to seize every handgun or require every citizen be fingerprinted and have his or her DNA sequenced and recorded in a permanent database, […]
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Posted on February 16th, 2007 by Jackie Danicki
I’ve never been a fan of Charles Barkley, the controversial and occasionally amusing basketball player, though he’s come out with some sound stuff on personal responsibility (vis a vis why he doesn’t owe his life to being any kid’s role model). I have to wonder if he knows how good this is, though:
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Posted on February 13th, 2007 by Jackie Danicki
I normally ignore the “We need to PROTECT teh pwecious blogging c0mmunity!!!!!!111111″ kind of rubbish from the usual (ignorant, deluded, collectivist) suspects, but having lately heard echoes of it from people who should know better, I think it’s time to say this:
People do not blog “for the sake of the community”. Individuals blog because they […]
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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 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 3rd, 2007 by Jackie Danicki
I’m just wondering how far lawmakers like conservative Texas governor Rick Perry would go to force females to have the HPV vaccine. I mean, if her parents are indifferent or want her to have the vaccine while she objects, would agents of the state take the girl into custody and hold her down on a […]
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Posted on February 2nd, 2007 by Jackie Danicki
Canada is the official Enemy of Fun, whereas Cuba is just the Enemy of Progress.
“Rooted to its traditions and customs” as in “bugger all has happened for the last fifty years”. Say what you like about communism, at least it avoids disfiguring the landscape with a lot of mucky economic development. Well, muck they can […]
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Posted on February 1st, 2007 by Jackie Danicki
Leave it to Adriana to nail exactly why Flickr’s enforcement of Yahoo ID sign-ins on their very earliest customers is a very big mistake. She also offers this point about ‘community’ online - one that a lot of marketers and self-described social media gurus would do well to understand:
A lot has been written and powerpointed […]
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Posted on January 18th, 2007 by Jackie Danicki
Not surprisingly, I like what Alice Bachini-Smith says here:
[I]f you think (as I do) that parenting is a job, a different thing from “the personal relationship you have with those people who happen to be your kids” (although they are related- it’s easier to guide and facilitate someone better when you know them intimately well), […]
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Posted on December 19th, 2006 by Jackie Danicki
Honor people who deserve honoring, and leave the labia out of the equation.
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Posted on December 19th, 2006 by Jackie Danicki
Claire Melamed is on her way out from Christian Aid, an organisation she made a laughingstock by using it as her megaphone to campaign for state control of markets.
Melamed was ideologically opposed to the market economy, saying that for markets for work: “everybody has to have perfect information - everybody has to know everything about […]
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Posted on December 19th, 2006 by Jackie Danicki
And if I hear one more time how Craigslist lacks “capitalist instincts”, someone’s head is going to shatter into a million pieces. Leave it to Mike at Techdirt to explain why Craigslist’s profit strategy is a hell of a lot smarter than the one many VCs would have for it. (No prizes for guessing that […]
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