Category Archive for 'internet'

Don’t Try This at Home

Sunday, October 1st, 2006

IN HIS OWN WORDS Sportsman tells a cautionary tale of a do-it-yourself project gone bad The Web site made it look easy. The customer testimonials stated that anyone could put it together. The parts came labeled and were accompanied by step-by-step instructions. But ultimately, it turned into one of the most frustrating experiences of my [...]

We must reinvent marketing for empowered consumers

Thursday, May 25th, 2006

In a changing media climate where consumers are ever more demanding, the key to continued success for brands is to meet their information needs When Rupert Murdoch speaks, media owners and advertisers listen. So when Murdoch announced a few weeks ago that the media world is being turned upside clown, what was previously a matter [...]

Web 2.0 Baloney

Wednesday, March 22nd, 2006

By John C. Dvorak    Web 2.0 is the latest moniker in an endless effort to reignite the dotcom mania of the late 1990s. This one seems to be succeeding. The problem is that little has changed. Bad ideas of the past have been renamed and spiffed up. We’re watching a classic example of “old [...]

Forward Thinking

Wednesday, March 22nd, 2006

When the Government Knows Where You Search Governments are doing their best to censor and control the Internet. Sometimes their goals sound lofty; sometimes they seem really sinister. But any way you look at it, the push for very open, free, and anonymous information on the Web is meeting a lot of resistance. Just look [...]