by David | Dec 16, 2010 | adsense clickfraud
This is a great flow chart, explaining how the Dark Side of the internet uses your unwary clicks to generate real money. (h/t ComputerSchool.org)It’s interesting to see the actual breakdown of how stealing your passwords and compromising your bank accounts can...
by David | Sep 24, 2010 | advertising, New Marketing, Online Video, television
A collective snicker/groan radiated out through the interwebs today with the publication of this AdAge piece on how video is like the news business was in 1998, as legions of print journalists who have seen the number and budgets of the news outlets for which they...
by David | Aug 10, 2010 | Uncategorized
$8 billion a year to POTS; “we are no longer on the right track” Anyone who’s traveled around the world has probably noticed what Janine and I have these last couple of years: we can usually access the internet much faster in other countries than we...
by David | Aug 2, 2010 | advertising, Amusing Nonsense
First day back from a much-needed “decompression” trip to the redwood forests of West Marin, and I’m greeted by the strangest trending topics when I fire up Tweetdeck for my re-immersion in the raging info-torrent: Strange. The words...
by David | Mar 27, 2010 | Digital Migration, journalism, Newspaper Deathwatch
GM’s NUMMI plant in Fremont was the solution to their crisis.     So why did they ignore its lessons? I strongly urge you to listen to this great piece from This American Life about the NUMMI auto plant in Fremont. It’s about how the U.S. auto...