Nothing Ever Happens

Inspired by bmw. Can’t wait to meet Gina:

Years ago at BYTE Magazine my friend Ben Smith, who was a Unix greybeard even then (now he’s a Unix whitebeard), made a memorable comment that’s always stuck with me. We were in the midst of evaluating a batch of LAN email products. “One of these days,” Ben said in, I think, 1991, “everyone’s going […]

Media Companies ‘Endangered’ by Old Models
Media companies are in danger of following the railroad industry model and becoming “Industrial Age mass distribution vehicles,” warns media economist Jack Myers. “New models must be quickly developed before the economics of the media business collapse.”
http://www.jackmyers.com/commentary/media-business-report/19216529.html
Sorrell: Traditional Media Are Under Pressure
Traditional media are under pressure in […]

“I have to use twitter..”

twitter is for the bored, introvert folks, who don’t have anyone to talk to: it’s the new confessional of the digital age. except that the old confessional was ‘always on’.
sometime you can hear smart advice form the priest you are confessing to, but mostly it’s crap.

Twitter, the fledgling microblogging service, is evolving into a social media powerhouse to rival giants like Facebook. The San Francisco-based Twitter, which appears to be aiming for a new round of funding, is starting an “experimental” advertising program on its site in Japan.
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/may2008/tc20080514_269697.htm

eMarketer is revising its U.S. social network ad spending forecast, projecting that advertisers will spend $1.4 billion to place ads on online social networks this year, down from a previous projection of $1.6 billion. The change is due in part to a lack of successful ad models.

MySpace, Facebook and Google are announcing similar-sounding moves over the past week to open up their sites to external applications. The moves suggest that social-media tools and services will spread throughout the Web, say observers. Social networks will be “like air.”
http://adage.com/digital/article?article_id=127012

As television, newspapers and other media are digitized and move to the Internet, Google’s advertising system will become the financial platform on which many of these businesses depend, according to industry observers. Google is “sitting on a goldmine.” Its momentum “seems unstoppable.”
 http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/ae08cfd8-2051-11dd-80b4-000077b07658.html