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quick rant: teaser posts in rss feeds are lame

Monday, August 20th, 2007

The final straw to me was when freakonomics was bought recently by the nytimes and as part of the new regime their feed changed from complete posts to teaser posts.  As someone who reads almost all his rss feeds on his blackberry curve to kill time during the day, it's ...

Microsoft-AQuantive Followup

Monday, May 21st, 2007

A quick followup to my post on the MSFT-AQNT deal announced last week.  There has been a lot of consternation in the commentary about the deal price across the internet perhaps highlighted by this post over at GigaOm.  First I want to clarify my earlier post - I wasn't saying ...

adtech - e-commerce panel

Tuesday, April 24th, 2007

Quick post before hitting the Hitwise event tonite.  Sat for the e-commerce panel which featured speakers from Levi's and Lego's Direct.  Yep there was the expected discussion about how the sites are engaging user generated content and marketing which wasn't anything that earth shattering.  The main takeaway for me was ...

More Ad-Supported Thoughts

Friday, April 13th, 2007

The amount of ad-supported content is growing and growing.  Advertising is both a practical solution to the challenge of micro-payments as well as a subsidy to expand the coffers of content creators so they can invest in more content.  And increasingly the online landscape is breaking down into two buckets: Consumers ...