This entry was posted in Business as unusual, History, The thoughtful manager on March 31, 2009 by Espen.
I recently Twittered that I thought spam levels were going up again (I correlated that with moving to the States in January) and, well, I was right about the increase but wrong about the reason: Spammer are rebuilding their infrastructure (NYT). Here we go again. I do agree with the Gmail assessments in the comments – very few spam messages in my gmail account, and as far as I know, no false positives.
Time to look at filtering through Gmail, especially since more and more ISPs block outgoing SMPT packets (i.e., port 25) which forces me to use Gmail anyway.
This entry was posted in Nerdy ruminations on March 31, 2009 by Espen.
This entry was posted in Humor, Nerdy ruminations on March 30, 2009 by Espen.
Since their creation, cities have had to be accepting of strangers — no judgments — and residents learn to be subtly accommodating, outward looking.
This entry was posted in Nerdy ruminations, The thoughtful manager on March 30, 2009 by Espen.
Box UK, has a very complete survey of web business models. My concept of business models (though for information content and services, not just services) on the web was four: Free, ad-supported, subscription or some form of micropayment (Skype, I would say, is the largest user of this concept, though they pull it off a regularly replenished account).
This site expands that classification a bit, including things like taking payemnt for physical products and letting the service follow the product (which more and more electronics manufacturers do). What strikes me is that there really is nothing new here – all the business models have been around since time immemorial, something the media industries of the world should take note of.
The answer for more and more of the granulated information providers of the world lies in moving either towards the user (becoming, essentially, an integrated part of the user’s information need, such as Bloglines) or to step further from the individual information consumer, becoming a source of content for others to fight over. Paying a license, of course.
Anyway, a good list, and a good survey. Check it out.
This entry was posted in Business as unusual, iAD, Nerdy ruminations, The thoughtful manager on March 30, 2009 by Espen.
[..]I remember Thompson [in 1993] saying something to the effect of “When a 14 year old kid can blow up your business in his spare time, not because he hates you but because he loves you, then you got a problem.” I think about that conversation a lot these days.
That simple. He draws the line back to the Gutenberg printing press and the enormous transition that caused – much more chaotic that you would think with 500 year hindsight.
Highly recommended. And another piece of reading for my suffering students….
This entry was posted in Academically speaking, iAD, Quotable, Reading, Search, The thoughtful manager on March 17, 2009 by Espen.
James Warren delivers the best defense for traditional newspapers I have yet to read, in The Atlantic. Interestingly, he singles out The Economist as one of the outlets that have done well in the face of the online onslaught. In Norway, the same thing has happened – the few papers that see increasing circulation are the quality niche papers, such as Morgenbladet and the extremely left wing Klassekampen, both of them niche publications that to some extent have shed their political affiliation and instead opened for quality journalism with opinions attached.
I feel encouraged that this is the way forward. Why waste paper on anything that isn’t high quality?
This entry was posted in Business as unusual, Nerdy ruminations, Notes from a small country on March 16, 2009 by Espen.