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| Monday, March 21, 2005 |
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It should be illegal 
| | ... to label long tail members (any of whom, with a good idea and an RSS feed, can change everything) "consumers." |
Fuzzy tail
| | In other words, some blogs skew very blogger-friendly (or, perhaps, simply "link-friendly",) but not very reader-friendly. For example, Doc Searls' weblog is in the top 25% of linked blogs, but is barely within the list of the top 100 read blogs. In contrast, Lawrence Lessig's blog is in the top third of all read blogs, but receives fewer links than 95% of the top linked blogs. |
| | I'm not sure it's about "friendliness." But what it's really about, aside from two different measures of two different values, I'm not sure. Whatever it is, I don't plan to do anything about it. |
Because "Customer Relationship Management" is about management more than customers
| | Imagine going to the sink, shower or toilet in your hotel room and being told water will cost you $14.95 per day. And that you'll have to call the front desk to have water turned on. And then having to call the front desk all over again the next time you use the plumbing, just because you haven't used water in the last half hour. |
| | That's what it's like for travellers whose only required amenity is broadband. But, to be fair, we're only talking about expensive hotels here. At cheap hotels that provide free broadband, there's the additional benefit of no spash screens, no useless promotional bullshit (as lame and annoying as the defaulted hotel channel on your room TV), no expensive and buggy billing schemes (with multiple charges the per day the common result). Just, bandwidth. |
| | The graphic above comes from the amenity selection form of a travel site (they're all the same in this regard, near as I can tell). All the hotels, and the reservation intermediaries, pretty much disregard the one thing that a large number of business (and other) travelers want. Why? |
Not being much of a TV watcher, I dunno
| | Guess I'm the last to learn that Rosie blogs. Is she an ex-celebrity now? |
Somebody's gotta do it
First person plurality
| | Marc and I believe that real change in the mediasphere will only come about when millions of us pick up the tools of digital creativity. The tools are now at hand. Let's go. |
| | It's becoming plain that the lion's share of first sources for future media goods are the masses that the old media dismissed as "consumers." |
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