September 24, 2007

  • 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

  • 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