Dave Winer thinks he's found the future of advertising on the Internet. I hope he's wrong. Because if Dave's vision ever becomes real, then media will become an endless commercial break of fast talking car salesmen stripping down to their underpants to sell us a Nissan
Here are my top five consumer electronic items? What are yours?
HP have reinvented sex in computers with their new range of piano-black PCs with highly refined silver trim and blue LED lights. Finally, PCs are as sophisticated on the outside as they are on the inside. And all thanks to Satjiv Chahil and his team of designers at HP.
What is the future of media? Tony Kearn, managing principal for media and entertainment at Deloitte knows. Listen to his interview with Andrew Keen.
Craig Newmark things people on the Internet is trustworthy and "deeply okay". He obviously hasn't been reading the news recently. What, we wonder, would Craig have to say about live suicides on the Internet or the quadrupling of serious child abuse cases online. Earth to Craig -- what Internet are you on?
So what does the Google acquisition of Doubleclick tell us? It says that Google isn't an all-you-can-eat restaurant in Mountain View or a do-no-evil NGO or a research department of Stanford University. It isn't even a search engine. No. Google is a remarkably profitable business that is cornering the market for selling all forms of advertising on the Internet.
Are really living in a global village? Or was Marshall McLuhan naive in his belief that the electronic media revolution would speed up society and transform all of us into global citizens?
Earlier this week, Tim O'Reilly and Jimmy Wales published their Codes of Conduct for Bloggers. But they both got it wrong. The solution to the uncivility of the blogosphere is a Elitist Code of Conduct for Bloggers.
Should there by a Pulitzer Prize for Bloggers? If so, I nominate the bearded, prickly one (Dave Winer) as the winner of the 2007 award.
So what's the solution to the newspaper crisis? Should rich people own American newspapers? Or should they be government owned?
What are my true feelings about anonymity on the Internet? It sucks. Here's why.
Tim O'Reilly blames messed-up people for corrupting the blogosphere. He wants a code of conduct that will clean up the anonymous Internet. But he's unwilling to sanction any sort of government intervention. He's wrong. What we need is the outlawing of anonymity. That's the only way to clean up the cyberswamp.
"Get naked and...." So says the April issue of Wired magazine. But behind
Twitter allows us to tell each other "what we are doing". Is this Web 3.0? Or is April 1 early this year?
My awards from Video-on-the-Net 2007. These don't reflect the interests of my sponsors interests or the fact that I'm an investor in QOOF or that I'm manufacturing a range of Jeff Jarvis boblehead dolls.