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Someone asked me about Second Life

Image by Pathfinder Linden via Flickr I was recently asked, in the comments section of this blog, whether there is potential in buying advertising space in Second Life.  I wanted to answer this question more generally- instead of dealing with just Second Life, is it worthwhile to develop a real life business through a virtual [...]
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Why did no one tell me when I was younger (Don’t Laugh)

Image by Fenng(dbanotes) via Flickr Thank God I look young.  And I look sexy to boot. I have discovered my most awesome new toy.  It is such an Awesome Awesome Toy That I had to Share. And everyone is going to laugh at me now, because I am an old fogey to think this is [...]
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While You Wait, The Internet is Like Teenagers.

I’m trying to write some other things up, but here is an early thought for your viewing pleasure. So here is that Guy Kawasaki panel with the “kids,” that critical demographic that everyone is trying to change into paying for things. One note: I’m in that demographic, mwahaha.  It’s a really hard demographic to be [...]
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Smartphone Tipoffs on the Street

Image by runnx via Flickr Currently on the Web, there is a lot of discussion about phones, particularly smartphones. I decided, in honor of this discussion, to do the following today: Go up to a few people and start chatting them up about their phones (particularly if they had a smartphone) and try to count [...]
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The New New Business of News

Image by Getty Images via Daylife While in some previous posts, there have been discussions of the theoretical maximum viewership of news-content, as well as the history of Newspaper, it is now time to discuss what does all of this mean in a practical sense. This is the third major age of newspapers, but not [...]
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Two thoughts on being a person.

Someone found a comment of mine on Fred Wilson’s blog.  He then took it apart into one line.  I realized that one line would make a good piece of art by itself.  Thanks! I also realized that I feel sort of wierd writing here.  It feels all levels of wrong if you break topic.  What [...]
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A Brief History of the Last Two Times Newspapers Dealt with Tech

Image via Wikipedia As a medium of outward bound communication, Newspapers are about as old as the book.  The first agreed upon Newspaper was the Relation aller Fürnemmen und gedenckwürdigen Historien, published in 1605 by Johann Carolus in Strasbourg, not much later than the invention of the Gutenberg Press , somewhere between 1439 and 1450 [...]
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A brief Break to talk more on Comments (before I talk about comments)

Image by bartodell.com via Flickr Just For giggles, I found this through AbovetheLaw, the Legal Tabloid.  Apparently, the Blawgosphere, as the legal eagles who blog call it, is also going through comment turmoil themselves. This essay on comment tolerance though, was worth a read just  to see what to do.  Sometimes, we all need a [...]
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Hearing the Voice from Cisco’s Chambers

Image by dfarber via Flickr In Saturday’s WSJ, Cisco Systems CEO John Chambers explains parts of the long term strategy to survive a downturn.  One thing that seems to be a theme of the new strategy, beyond the buzzword of the moment, Web 2.0, is their interest in video. It’s their big, open, yet dirty [...]
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Ring! Ring! Ring! Government-Phone!

In one of those odd sort of moves that I suspected for a while, Verizon is moving to cut its exclusive contract with cell phone makes (such as LG and RIM) to six months.
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