OK. That post was incredibly long. I need a vacation. Actually, I figured I’d start blogging when noone was around to try and get the hang of it. Now I’m off to Cape Cod to eat fried food take a long-planned vacation. I doubt I’m going to attempt to post from my Blackberry, so have […]

So which newspaper has the best business news? The New York Post, of course. In fact, the New York Post is the only New York newspaper that seems to have business news. Everybody else has analysis. Plus, they delight in covering the media, marketing and internet business in New York. No one else really does. […]

I love Eliezer Yudkowsky of Overcoming Bias. Read this.

Matthew Yglesias over at the Atlantic has an incisive take on the annoying bias of journalists towards print media. Even notably rational tree-killing news sources like the Economist get all preachy about the internet when they’re reminded that having somebody hand deliver the words their writers set down literally days before is just kind of […]

Rejection Sensitivity (or RS)–for those of you who don’t read Psychology Today–has been on the rise of late. Parents are overprotecting and overpraising children. (Well, except me. As noted previously, I’m training mine to be professional negotiators by making nothing easy.) Over at Free Exchange they’re blogging about how the various Facebook Crush apps can […]

I went to Barnes & Noble at lunch. I like to buy books, it makes me feel better. Not reading them, just buying them. They look so interesting. Someday I’ll get around to reading them all. Oh, who am I kidding? At Barnes & Noble the past few weeks I’ve noticed that I can’t stand […]

Way back in 2002 (or 2003) The Economist wrote something along the lines of: the marketing department is the only place in the corporation that has not adopted a system to make their job more measurable and efficient. That this was true then was astounding. That it’s true today is mind-blowing. My friend Rob Leathern […]

when you’re a hammer. When all you think about is information, everything looks like a problem the internet can solve. Just read Brad Burnham’s post on the sale of Tacoda to AOL/TimeWarner. Before I go into my everything is made of digits spiel, I want to say congratulations to Brad and Fred at USV. I’ve […]

Not what you think. Peter Klein over at Organizations and Markets blogged recently about what sound like some really interesting papers on the nature of non-profits. Of course, in a case of the shoemaker’s children, I can’t find these papers to read, without paying some $30 per (or slogging down to the Business branch of […]

I’ve been thinking non-stop about internet marketing for twelve years now, so it’s easy for me to write about, and I will. What I’ve been thinking about non-stop for the last six months is entirely different: how can the internet be used to make the world a better place? I know, it’s a stupid question. […]