September 2007
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Fee speech
From the AT&T Legal Policy: AT&T may immediately terminate or suspend all or a portion of your Service, any Member ID, electronic mail address, IP address, Universal Resource Locator or domain name used by you, without notice, for conduct that AT&T believes (a) violates the Acceptable Use Policy; (b) constitutes a violation of any… Continue reading
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Is journalism personal?
My favorite recent Edhat is Gate B, posted August 31st. It begins, Those of you who are planning to attend Oprah’s Obama Bash might have heard that there won’t be valet parking in front of Oprah’s vacation home in Montecito. Instead, you will need to go eight miles away to Gate B of the… Continue reading
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Answers
[I just posted an answer to questions raised by Al and Max in the comment thread under the Go from hell post. But when I hit “submit”, nothing happened. When I went back and hit “submit” again, WordPress told me I’d posted the comment already. I tried another browser. Still not there. So I copied… Continue reading
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Book it
The Santa Barbara Book & Author Festival started last night with an award presentation to local author T. Coraghessan Boyle, and continues tomorrow with, among other things, a panel titled What’s Next for Newspapers. On the panel will be: Jeramy Gordon, editor and publisher of of the Santa Barbara Daily Sound; Matt Kettman, senior editor… Continue reading
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Learning to drive
Somehow I made the Go from hell post below disappear tonight. Just got it back. My bad. Apologies. Just discovered I made a whole ‘nuther post disappear, though. Completely. Damn. Continue reading
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Stamp acting
A friend of mine in Santa Barbara is looking for somebody to evaluate the worth of a stamp collection. Not my field, but I promised to blog the request. If you know somebody, contact me here. Continue reading
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Go from hell
Why do we continue, in 2007, to believe that markets are all about What Big Companies Do? Worse, why do we continue to take advertising for granted as the primary source of the the Bux DeLuxe required to fund technical, social and personal progress? For example, take this BusinessWeek story, which begins, Imagine your… Continue reading
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Eat at Joe’s
Joe Andrieu is on a roll. Or in a role. Four links before I hit the road: Leaving the Information Age Marc Andreessen hits three nails on the head (also talks about nails Marc misses) Change of ages Why Search Needs VRM Consider those bonus links to lots of other stuff. Continue reading
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Wanted: netcos
Looking for the next Net business is my latest over in Linux Journal. I just wrote it, sitting here in a Salinas Starbucks, en route from San Francisco to Santa Barbara. I’ve got a cold and can’t see or think straight, but I want to get the idea out there, so there ya go. Here’s… Continue reading
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Your soil may vary
David Brooks in the New York Times: Now it’s evident that if you want to understand the future of the Democratic Party you can learn almost nothing from the bloggers, billionaires and activists on the left who make up the “netroots.” You can learn most of what you need to know by paying attention… Continue reading
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Where there’s smoke…
Just caught this post by Thomas Hawk about Yahoo’s reported decision to kill off a photo of a girl smoking, because the company has a policy about not showing those kinds of photos. Its a shot titled “Priscilla 1969”, by Joseph Szabo, and familiar from an old album cover that used it. Thomas is CEO… Continue reading
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InyourFacebook
It’s really cool and all that all these people are my friends… … and want to play and stuff. But it’s too much. And it all happens in the Facebook clubhouse. I kinda like my social networks to happen in the wide open marketspaces. No ‘fence. Continue reading
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Death from below
First assignment: John Perry Barlow’s Death From Above, written in March 1995. Second assignment: Cory Doctorow’s Somebody Has To Die, posted three days ago. JPB: Over the last 30 years, the American CEO Corps has included an astonishingly large percentage of men who piloted bombers during World War II. For some reason not so difficult… Continue reading
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Getting to the intention economy
I was looking for some quotage on advertising, and ran across this from 1999, (it says 1998, but that’s a typo) which lists ideas that would find a home in The Cluetrain Manifesto. In it I said that advertising is unaccountable. That has changed. Google and others have made their form of adveriting highly accountable,… Continue reading
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Mission: Denial
Tim Jarrett: In their haste to try to break Apple’s well-earned stronghold on the content download market, NBC is starting its own download service. Rather than charge for the downloads, the downloads will contain unskippable commercials, and according to the Times the downloads will “degrade after the seven-day period and be unwatchable.” Jeff Gaspin,… Continue reading
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As in Jesse Ventucky
Been hanging in the airport lounge here at Logan with Rich Hill, one of the bloggers behind The Piton. Reading, I just discoverd that Ventucky is Ventura. Continue reading
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Summer and Winter are over
We passed the moment of Equinox at 9:51am GMT today. That was 17 minutes ago, as I write this. Continue reading
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Just a question
If New York City is the “center of advertising”, then what’s the center of advertising’s opposite? Continue reading