Recently readAs you may have read, I don’t buy into the supposed accuracy or relevance of ‘top bloggers’ lists, but my place on this one is interesting. If I did buy into such rankings, I’d be rather chuffed that all I have to do to curry even more influence is cross-post at Samizdata, which is ranked […]
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Adriana greets news that a research firm has “defined six new consumer clusters“:
more demographics…but hey, if the groups start breaking down to too many subgroups, perhaps the marketers [will] get the message..
Maybe, but I reckon it will take them many more years to work out what individual human beings are.
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Dave Winer saw $2.3 million in revenue from his blog last year.
People think blogs are about advertising, and I would agree, but they’re thinking in terms of clicks and eyeballs, and I’m thinking of technology that’s created using the intelligence of community participation.
Hell, you don’t even have to be in the technology business to reap […]
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Jeff Jarvis:
The more open the network, the more valuable it is — but the harder it is to own, and thus the harder it is to value in old terms of ownership and market cap. That’s what really argues against the IEEE authors. They are trying to put a corporate value on networks. You can’t. […]
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I know so many women who have had miscarriages or stillbirths, but it is not the sort of thing one usually discusses in depth with those who have suffered such tragedies. Today’s Sunday Times details the agony of one woman who went through these things.
Antoine was so small at birth that doctors were unable to […]
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When the demand side of a voluntary exchange starts supplying itself, the traditional suppliers are going to get scared. To wit, all of the exploding business models around us (newspapers, music, movies, and TV just for starters).
The same fear is being felt by companies when it comes to their ads. This is, of course, because […]
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Has Hollywood discovered the long tail by accident? If they are indeed improving box office takings by selling less of more, like Amazon and Netflix do - that is, fewer tickets per film, but lots more films showing - then perhaps this is what will finally kill the unsustainable, economically bankrupt, overblown budget model. We […]
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If you have anything at all to do with running IT functions and strategy for a company of any size, you need to read what JP Rangaswami has to say about TCOs for enterprise IT and…just, wow. Read him.
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Seth Godin asks marketers: How much would you pay to be on Oprah’s TV show?
The persistent reporter who spoke to me the other day wouldn’t stop asking the same question, “What percentage of your annual sales are directly attributable to your blog?” Perhaps you’ve heard the same question from your boss. Proof is what […]
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Excellent post from Alex Singleton of the GI:
The real forces of conservatism today are organizations like the World Development Movement, War on Want and Christian Aid. They favour managed trade, wanting to preserve the past. Christian Aid took a major hit to its credibility after it came out in support of textiles quotas - […]
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Dennis Howlett always has thought-provoking things to say on his blog, but two recent entries really caught my eye. One addresses the issue of job titles:
I came across this: Director of Lasting Impressions - (scroll down). Maybe we should all have one!
Or…for a chief marketing officer - how about: “Director of Conversations and Innovation?”
Customer […]
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Women make less money than men for very good reasons, and systematic discrimination isn’t one of them.
A mostly unrelated aside: One thing I have never understood is how anyone can claim that men make more than women for doing “the exact same job”. On paper, the job may well be the same, but when it […]
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I don’t really write about my job here, but in this case, I think it’s entirely appropriate.
As it says in the sidebar, I’m head of marketing for Latitude, Europe’s market-leading search engine marketing company. In simple terms, we run the bidding for companies’ search campaigns on the various engines (Google, Yahoo, Ask Jeeves, et […]
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Tim Newman, an engaging writer and a mechanical engineer to boot, sets us straight on a few facts about Hurricane Katrina’s effects and who is to blame. The comments to that post are well worth a read, too. Lots of talk about measuring risk and acting according to your findings.
Adriana Cronin-Lukas used to be a […]
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