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Rick Webb
Co-founder, COO : New York
topics: Social Media, Search, Automotive, Rock and Roll, and Alcoholic Beverages
Some various thoughts to start off your week:
- An industry friend of mine, Craig Elimeliah has started a much needed blog – the first, that I’m aware of blog for interactive producers, called iPro. I talked a lot about the need for more educational resources in the Creativity Producer’s Roundtable, and it’s good to see someone not just talking but doing something about it. In my secret post-Barbarian life, I dream of being a “professor of interactive production,” if any university ever actually had such a program (note: if you are a university and have such a program, please consider hiring me in 10 years).
- They do advertising on cats now. That’s kind of awesome.
- While on the train just now, I read on Rex’s Blog about the Simspons being in HD tonight, so using my EVDO connection and Back to My Mac I remotely connected to the Mac Mini in my living room in Boston and told my Elgato Eye TV to record it over the air from Fox in HD. From the Train. That is awesome.
- Fred Wilson is taking up the cause of fighting patent trolls and it’s nice to see someone that has the ear of the higher ups shining light on this issue. I left a comment suggesting compulsory licensing as a potential solution, and if this is your cup of tea, I’d love to hear your thoughts on it.
- Another CMO survey Every time I read one of these, I always wonder who the CMOs are. They’re all totally cranky about agencies all the time, but they also claim no brands are doing a good job (except Apple), and they stay in their jobs less than 2 years. What is it with CMOs? Why are they so unhappy?
- The Pirate Bay trial starts tomorrow! NewTeeVee has a good recap. This will be an interesting one, especially after Italy’s failed efforts to take them down.
- Speaking of Italy, WTF? Did you hear about their weird war against Facebook, because some users of Facebook are fans of the Mafia? Italy is proposing a law that will block sites that do not enforce bans on speech that incites or justifies criminal behavior. Does this seem like madness? If I advocate overturning drug laws am I justifying criminal behavior? I am, aren’t I? And if I say that there’s nothing wrong with not paying your taxes, I am now breaking the law just by saying that? That seems crazy. But the crazier part is buried in the article: they already have a law like this for print media. It’s nice to see the internet putting up more of a fight. Also, upon reading the article, it is sort of terrifying how fundamentally misunderstood internet architecture is to the government, who doesn’t seem to understand you can’t block a single page at the ISP level.
- This is the best article I’ve read yet explaining the appeal and potential of Twitter I have been thinking a lot, lately, about what Twitter’s gonna do when it’s not all in English.
- Adweek made a great comment about Modernista’s site and how it’s looking during their layoffs but I gotta give M! props for not backing down even as there’s bad news. Ballsy.
- And, finally, one more overly verbose comment I posted over on TechCrunch regarding Facebook’s revised T&Cs. The short view: it’s fine, they’re fine, but they could be a little bit more transparent. But it would be nice if the industry didn’t rely JUST on TOS docs for educating the users about a company’s intentions.
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- Interview: Awesome.
- Cat-vertising: Awesome
- CMOs: Benjamin and I were talking about finding a list of CMOs by tenure and seeing how performance changed. Would be interesting.
Reading the rest of them now. Good stuff. Love the linkdrops.