Okay, I’m sure everyone has already seen this, but it made me laugh out loud sitting here alone in the kitchen. The scathingly funny Amazon reviews for the Denon AKDL1 Link Cable, a $500 ethernet cable “made of high-purity copper wire” to “get the purest signal from multi-channel DVD and CD playback.” Yes, a $500 […]
Posts for June 2008
Expressly. You Keep Using That Word. I Don’t Think It Means What You Think It Means.
I’ve been way too busy to post lately. Sorry. But yesterday an email from Forbes landed in my inbox and I had to share. It starts: Forbes is committed to protecting the privacy of its readers… However, Forbes does make available its list of readers who have expressly provided us with their permission to receive […]
Dumb Money
The juxtaposition in my RSS reader of Kedrosky’s Venture Capital is an Attractive Nuisance, II and Organizations and Markets’ Against Government Subsidized VC seems like a sign for me to comment on something I was striving to ignore. Bloomberg announces a taxpayer subsidized venture capital fund just after the NBER publishes a paper on what […]
Yes, Brands Work
Kara Swisher over at All Things Digital approvingly quotes NeoAtOgilvy COO Greg Smith: “No one wants a relationship with their mustard.” But, then, why do people buy the mustard they buy? Why do people persist in buying French’s, Gulden’s and Grey Poupon? Not price: store brands are cheaper. Not quality: no more than a tiny […]
One Small Bug; Centuries of Notoriety
Everybody’s blogging about Vanity Fair’s How the Web Was Won. I found it both boring and too short. Probably because I’m old. The best quote was: I’d rather not talk about it—sorry. From Robert Tappan Morris.