Random Articles

• The Difference Between Consumers and Customers “if any other CEOs of companies who make products I use have a problem with me having a blog, let me know, and I’ll switch to your competitor right away.” - Dave Winer
• We Edit Each Others Media in a Post-Filter World Previously, I’ve talked about the a Business Model for Abundance and what price means in an age of abundance. Seems like a meme going around. “Soon everything will make it to market and the real opportunity will be in sorting it all out.” - Chris Anderson Yes, I see Attention.xml playing a big role in this. And
• We Need to Build More Parks Not More Prisons Smarter people than I can debate the title of this post literally, I’m using it as a metaphor for web development and customer relationships overall. Vendors don’t have full control over their customers. Never did. Best they can do is encourage, support, and remove obstacles impeding their customers’ success. Especially if the vendor wants to build
• Don’t Click Here, Part 2 “That it uses RSS is cool and modern and all; but hey, it’s still advertising. It’s still a media game that works entirely on the supply side. And it’s still ineffecient. However appropriate it may be, most of its messages are still wasted.” - Doc Searls
• If a Sign is Needed, Something is Wrong. In his Roads Gone Wild article for Wired, Tom McNicol describes a new mentality in traffic control: fewer signs = fewer accidents. From this perspective, traffic control signs are actually a poor band-aid for an unsafe environment. At best, they keep accident rates constant, at worst they actually cause more. This phenomenon is not unique to