Today’s Reading

OK, I lied about no more wonky posts. Xeni’s Facebook post reminded me of something. I want to float an idea about privacy as a commodity, vs. privacy as a right.

Tiger Woods, described frequently as a “very p…

Paul Kedrosky submits: Like many people, I have written and commented to media a little in the last day or two about the new Google (GOOG) phone. Here is a particularly interesting dissenting note I received vi…

How America Can Rise Again by James FallowsIs America going to hell? After a year of economic calamity that many fear has sent us into irreversible decline, the author finds reassurance in the peculiarly Americ…

My business partner and I have been working together for about 8 years now and since then we’ve both learned a lot about business. When things start to go well you’ll start to feel like you know everything…

Recently, I was reading a post about sponsored Tweets, which sparked debate in both the comment section and on Twitter. The debate boiled down to whether or not a sponsored Tweet, or any sponsored content for…

Lanxon writes “‘I was a Senior Marketing Manager at Apple and I was instructed to do some controlled leaks,’ confesses John Martellaro. Monday’s article at the Wall Street Journal, which provided confirmation o…

Perhaps the most plaintive complaint I hear from organizations goes something like this, “We worked really hard to get very good at xyz. We’re well regarded, we’re talented and now, all the market cares about i…

I drew the cartoon above over five years ago. It still applies.
Brian Clark and I were chatting on the phone yesterday about the end of the “Utopian” phase of blogging and social media.
Yes, all that talk…