September 22, 2007

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The message isn’t medium

September 22, 2007 in Blogging, Past | Comments closed

Okay, so Bob sold out. But he sold out for me. All is forgiven. — Sheila Lennon

OneWebDay

September 22, 2007 in Future, News, Past | 1 comment

David Isenberg observes that OneWebDay and Yom Kippur coincide this year, making OWD “the second oldest Important World-Wide Observation”. David Weinberger urges us to “go celebrate the Web while we still have one that’s distinguishable from cable TV”. I wrote my celebration here, where I explain (among probably too many other things) where my nickname came from. (Yes, I’m a David too. Coincidence?)

Bubble 2.0

September 22, 2007 in Future, Ideas, Past, VRM | 11 comments

In 1999, “portals” were all the rage and advertising was going to pay for everything. In 2007, “social networks” are all the rage and advertising is paying for everything. Almost.

Thought: We have the same problem with Facebook today that we’ve had with broadcast media for the duration: their customers are their advertisers, not their users; and in fact they sell the latter to the former.

Questions: Where is the financial leverage in your social network? How does it work?

Questions: What is your relationship with your social network provider? How does that work?