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| Friday, August 12, 2005 |
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War Times 
Sing along
| | Here you can find all music from Rick levine, chris locke, doc searls, dave weinberger ever released. |
What you don't see is what you get
| | I was not disagreeing. Quite the contrary. But I was making up for what I felt was a shortcoming in the Ad Age story: absence of linking. Scott deserved a link, so I added it to the text I quoted from the Ad Age story. |
| | In that post I was mostly pointing to the story, to leave interpretation up to the reader. The "Try impossible" headline was my two-word response to the Ad Age headline, "Marketers wrestle with hard-to-control content". I had other objections, like calling blogs a "consumer controlled space" and lumping them together with chat rooms; but my main objection was to the "control" assumption. |
| | At one point the piece asks, |
| | Is it safe to advertise in places on the Internet that are essentially run by consumers and cannot be controlled? How can they protect themselves and their good names when blog and chat-room users are liable to say and post anything? |
| | The short answer is that they can wait for guys like Scott to provide services that give them as much control over placing and pulling advertising as bloggers have over posting and pulling editorial content. |
| | Freedom from advertiser control, which has prevailed in varying degrees in traditional media for the duration, is one of the reasons we have blogging. |
| | Coincidentally, I posted something yesterday that I pulled today, after Heather Green, a journalist with Business Week, wrote |
| | I am pretty disappointed. First, you talk about the problem of news as entertainment, which truly is a problem. But then you point to a dildo?? Point to a dildo anywhere but in this post, because otherwise, you come off as doing the same thing you right criticize the press for. |
| | Talk about an O shit moment. |
| | I wrote the offending post while I was still at LinuxWorld, where the connectivity was pretty bad. Much of the time connection speeds were at sub-dialup levels. |
| | On an impulse, I pointed to the latest post by Jim Thompson, mostly to bring readers to Jim's latest stuff. Also, because I saw some relevancy to points about news in my post, I added pointage to the topic in Jim's post: a USB dildo/vibrator that now has a Linux driver. |
| | When I added that to the post (also impulsively), the graphic of the vibrator hadn't appeared. The Linux-drivable dildo page was all text. This morning, back home where the connectivity is good, the dildo appears in all its nasty glory. If it had appeared when I first looked, I wouldn't have pointed to it. |
| | Anyway, there are many lessons here: about impulsivity, etc., in addition to the usual ones we've talked to death already. |
| | Follow the links to find the dildo if you like. Meanwhile, it's gone from that post. |
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