Month: February 2004

“I prefer visions of the future to the entire history of the past.”— Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) “Those who do not remember the past are doomed to repeat it.” — George Santayana (1863-1952)

In my ClickZ.com column 11 months ago, I wrote: At the center of any market is the price mechanism competition creates. There’s always some difference between buyers’ and sellers’ desired prices. In a functioning market that difference is minimal, or at least…

“It is the thesis of this book that society can only be understood through a study of the messages and communications facilities which belong to it; and that in the future development of these messages and communication facilities, messages between man and…

EditorandPublisher.com features an article headlined Tony Ridder Still Having Fun. We’ll presume that Rupert Murdoch, the Cox family, and the Newhouse brothers are also having fun.* The real question is whether their employees are enjoying themselves, too.      * We should note that…

If you are an American who has submitted your e-mail address to a ‘National Do Not E-mail Registry’ that promises to reduce the amount of spam (unsolicited commercial e-mail) you receive, then you may be the victim of a scam, said the…

Speaking of advertising (see below), the marketing chief of one of the largest consumer products companies in the world today told the Advertising Agency Association of America’s annual conference that: “All marketing should be permission marketing,” he said. “When we think of…

Less isn’t more. Forcing people to register to read newspaper Web sites that simply shovel online generic content from printed editions will only diminish the number of people who will use those sites in an era when diminishing readership should be the…