Put up a website. Took down the robots.txt today. Thought I’d tell you all first. Now before you inform me–as Josh Reich did when I asked him to take an early look–that I should get a new designer, I’ll let you know that I designed it myself. With help from my five year old. Between […]
Posts for May 2011
The client does not care if you are intellectually stimulated, Kendall, they just want the goddamned sales curve to start moving up
Every revolution has its reactionaries. I was going to respond to Kendall Allen’s article The Math State, but didn’t, for a few reasons: it wasn’t convincing enough to need a response, I’ve stated my answer to the objection elsewhere, and Joe Zawadzki is a better writer than I am. I want to note, though, that […]
Almost a license to print money
Advertising, in time, proved almost a license to print money, and the effects on broadcasting of the revenue model it introduced can scarcely be overstated. It gave AT&T, and later the rest of the industry, an irresistible incentive not just to broadcast more but to control and centralize the medium. To see why, compare the […]