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So what do they really mean by "unit?" Thanks to UseTheSource ("the reciprocal of hype" — one of my favorite slogans) for pointing out one more reason why markets hate marketing. Here are your "NEW INTERACTIVE MARKETING UNITS":
Which are sure to "perform," "excite," "impact," "stimulate" and "penetrate" you — and, of course, "deliver an experience" superior to those "EXISTING BANNER UNITS":
"This is an ad supported medium, " Richy Glassberg says, "and all of us doing business in it should be willing to work together to achieve the best possible experience not only for our business, but for our consumers, who are at the heart of the success of the Internet." Richy is Vice Chairman of the Internet Advertising Bureau and Chairman & CEO of Phase2Media. Gone and figuring
Richard Stallman has issued his response to remarks made by Microsoft platform chief Jim Allchin a couple weeks ago (and corrected more recently by the Microsoft PR apparatus). This is RMS' official response, which corrects a draft version that became public a few days ago. I'm not entirely sure what to make of it yet. The original free software philosophy seemed clearer to me, uncomplicated by the need to defend itself from a percieved attack by Microsoft. Last August Richard took issue with a statement I had made suggesting that the free software movement was "anti-commercial." But that's the way this piece comes off, at least at first reading. The Declaration of Software Freedom, which carries RMS' John Hancock, says "Current Software Commercial Organizations" do all of the following:
Red Hat and Caldera are commercial organizations. Do they do all that? We'll see where it all goes. I've been thinking that this will tend to marginalize Richard and the free software movement. But there is something sturdy in the margin already occupied by the GPL. The Open Source Initiative endorses a plethora of licenses, while the free software folks unshakably stand by the GPL. I was told recently by folks at Borland that they "worked closely" with Richard in developing a dual-license strategy for their new Kylix family of Linux software development environments and their class libraries (CLX). Essentially the customer (or user) has the choice either to develop under the GPL or another license, depending on purpose. I sense a convergence coming on, in spite of the way the mainstream press likes to cover everything like it's a sportscast. Meanwhile, I want to report that Richard does have a sense of humor. I've been laughing at this letter to Dr. Laura. Like Spy never imagined Joshua points to Paul's discourse on blogrolling, the neolojism that was born (I must immodetly point out) here. I should add, for the record (whatever that now is), that the blogrolling idea was indeed inspired (as Paul kind of suggests) by Spy Magazine's original "Logrolling in our time" feature, which consisted of twin blurbs from flattering book reviews written by authors about each other's work. Spy was funny as hell, as well as hell on muck, which it raked with relish. One example is this piece, on Wackenhut, a kinda creepy company that does everything from sell pants to operate prisons to filling staff positions, mostly in security, all over the place.
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