March 23, 2009
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After the advertising bubble bursts
Thesis #74 of The Cluetrain Manifesto says, “We are immune to advertising. Just forget it.” We wrote that in 1999, when everybody thought that advertising was going to be THE model for businesses on the Internet. The crash came less than a year later. Then the next bubble came, and this time everybody thought (surprise!)… Continue reading
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Sounds of place
We were driving somewhere the other day when the kid asked if he could play around with the iPhone for awhile. Among the podcasts I subscribe to is The Best of YouTube — although, as with most of the too-many podcasts I subscribe to, I hardly ever watch it. I wasn’t paying much attention to… Continue reading