Monthly Archives: December 2009

How ideas are often handled

Posted on December 9, 2009 by

Via Teri Abel here is the superb Scott Campbell‘s take on ways to destroy ideas.

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WSJ goes nuts

Posted on December 7, 2009 by

WSJ Home page with ad, originally uploaded by LanceWiggs. Horror upon horrors – my $151 annual subscription could not save me from a half page advertisement on WSJ.com. I do find it amusing that Intel finds it necessary to spend … Continue reading →

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Google’s Schmidt responds to Murdoch – and well

Posted on December 4, 2009 by

Google’s Eric Schmidt has written an op editorial in the Murdoch owned Wall Street Journal. The best paragraph is where Eric gently explains to Murdoch, in his own newspaper, exactly how Google is helping and not hindering the news industry. … Continue reading →

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125 links is completely unusable PriceSpy

Posted on December 4, 2009 by

I lost count – but there are about 125 links on the PriceSpy homepage. It means that I have absolutely no idea what to do on the page – except to leave. and so I did – but I took … Continue reading →

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Murdoch, Microsoft and mad men

Posted on December 3, 2009 by

While I sit near the TV refusing to watch myself on Media7 (I’m sure co-panelist Julie Starr was excellent), here are some notes that I wrote in preparation for the recording of the show last night. The wider topic of … Continue reading →

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NBR’s Barry Colman replies

Posted on December 3, 2009 by

Tonight I appear on Russell Brown’s Media7 as part of a panel with Julie Starr on Murdoch, Google and so on. I’ll post about that soon – it was an interesting and fun first time TV experience. Yesterday however, Chris … Continue reading →

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