Anyone? I mean, after teaching myself TurboGears. Sigh.
Kids on the Internet
This is completely off-topic, so I’ll keep it short. A friend just sent me a copy of the “Shannon” email that’s been circulating for the last many years. The email talks about the dangers of kids being online, how offering any identifying information at all can make them a target for assault or murder. My […]
I own a lot of cookbooks; A couple I even own for the recipes
The Times has an interesting internet-killed-old-media article, Internet book piracy will drive authors to stop writing. I’m almost old enough to remember when The Times was called The Daily Universal Register, so take it with a grain of salt when I say that these types of articles always strike me as intentionally hyperbolic. The death […]
Ad Spend Numbers
ReveNews links to Jack Myers’ 2006-2009 media spend estimates. Jack’s got a great breakdown of media spend by category. Nothing surprising, but it’s always nice to look at numbers. The big growers in 2009? Mobile ads (120% growth from 2008), videogame ads (60%), satellite radio ads (35%), and branded entertainment/product placement (30%) are the top […]
Handipoints Launches
Viva Chu, a colleague at my last startup, has finally launched Handipoints, his chore tracker/virtual world for kids. He also snagged a nice review in TechCrunch. Handipoints is a site where parents can create printable chore charts and setup an allowance program that is tied to teaching responsible habits. Kids earn points from doing their […]
And then We’ll Teach the Saudis How to Farm
While the rest of us are trying to figure out how to make internet brand ads ($5 CPMs, if you’re lucky) as engaging as TV ads ($50 CPMs), TechCrunch is trying to figure out how to bring internet style ads to TV. I’m sort of at a loss for words on this one.
‘Pimp’ is an Uglier Word
Henrik Torstensson points out an article on BubbleGeneration called Companies Are Not Pimps. Their beef? LBS was holding a conference called Monetizing Social Networks. Here’s BubbleGeneration’s take: MBAs come to B-school wanting to do cool things – and they get crushed into thinking business is about “product” and “monetization”… It was, at least a little […]
The Feed Kludge
I’m not a huge fan of blog comments. Sure, I appreciate the friendly “Amen, brother”, but if you’ve really got something to say then start your own blog and start saying it. And, of course, link it to my blog. Comments are inherently a speaker-audience metaphor: the blogger is up on the stage talking and […]
Don’t Do Me Any Favors
Louise Story had a decent article in the NY Times on Monday about internet ad targeting. But the article, like every article on ad targeting ever written in a publication dependent on placating their obviously non-objective sources, said this: …executives from the largest Web companies say … the data is a boon to consumers, because […]
A Dollar’s Worth of Wine, and Three Dollars’ Worth of Bubbles
I had this New Yorker cartoon on my desk in 2002. I felt for that guy. Wait, I was that guy. I totally missed out on the real estate bubble. Well, I bought a house in 2003, so I guess I played a bit role. Eric Janszen has a great article in Harper’s about the […]