Marketing Research Tells Us That You Want to Pay More for Less
Many companies use focus groups, and give you what you say you want. Apple forgoes focus groups, and gives you what you want but didn’t know you wanted. Time-Warner Cable makes up their own facts, and...
View ArticleA Small Victory; Media Lobbyists No Doubt Beginning Work to Erode It Away
Publishers, in our modern, internationalized world, have established market segmentation: pricing their product separately in every country or region based on the maximum profit they believe they can...
View ArticleNetwork Neutrality Dealt a Heavy Blow
The D.C. circuit Court of Appeals issued a decision today to essentially give Telecoms sweeping powers to manipulate Internet access, control content, and do their worst to make the Internet more...
View ArticleWhen to Tolerate Intolerance
If someone in a position of authority makes public statements of intolerance towards a class of people, should that person be forced to step down? Most people would say yes, as they are demonstrating...
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Samsung and Wall-hugging
If you ask me, this new ad campaign by Samsung is not very well thought-through. I’ve done my share of “wall-hugging” (usually “pillar-hugging,” actually), and I can attest to the BS charge they are...
View ArticleUnbundling Is Overdue
The FCC’s recent stance on Net Neutrality is nice and all, but one critical elements is still missing: unbundling, which requires carriers that own infrastructure to lease their last-mile connections...
View ArticleUp and Coming Pet Peeve
What’s annoying? Web sites that constantly reload, especially when the reset sends you way back up to the top of the page, even more so when what you were just about to look at is now gone and replaced...
View ArticleThe Free Market
Maybe the conservatives are right. Why should the government always interfere? Why not let everything self-regulate? After all, that is only the most fair and effective means for a productive society,...
View ArticleAnecdotally, Corporations Are Sweethearts
It really ticks me off when somebody advocating the “free market” and opposing government regulation uses anecdotal evidence as proof that somehow corporations can be counted on to do the right thing....
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“Acceptable Ads”
If you use AdBlock, you may have noticed a pop-up this week: Aside from the irony of AdBlock giving you a pop-up, this was sure to get your attention because of what it implies. It has attracted a...
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