Digital: Get-Rich-Quick Ads Steal Google's Brand Equity
(Advertising Age)
In a world of double-digit unemployment and old-line industries in mid-collapse, here's a sales pitch tailor-made for the times: Get Paid by Google. When you create systems that are almost totally automated, lots of well-meaning customers are going to do very well by using your system the right way, and so will scammers, spammers, and con men. But the online and search advertising industries are fundamentally flawed to begin with: generally they're based on traffic, which can be artificially generated in dozens of illegitimate ways. These industries invite all sorts of criminally-minded cretins who are extremely good at inventing ways to game the systems. Why? Because that's where the money is. At the same time, I have to note that this article appears in AdAge, one of the last bastions of the old advertising world, you know the one that's dying a slow death by millions of digital paper cuts, because they can't do things like provide their clients with the campaign analytics that a firm like Google can. Everyone wants to measure the effectiveness of their ads, but few can provide the numbers like Google and other online ad firms. It's not surprising that you'll find an anti-Google piece, here. Google is one of the biggest advertising operations on the planet today, but they don't even need to talk to AdAge, and they probably don't give two squirts about what AdAge thinks. Ha!
Blogged: Friday, June 26, 2009

(warning: some of these links may have expired)

1. Tracing the Journey of a Single Bit
   (Wired)
   Blogged: Tuesday, December 22, 2009
2. The Internet Is Dead (As An Investment)
   (Wall Street Journal/WSJ.com)
   Blogged: Sunday, July 19, 2009
3. Digital: Get-Rich-Quick Ads Steal Google's Brand Equity
   (Advertising Age)
   Blogged: Friday, June 26, 2009
4. Squatters Own 80% of Twitter
   (ShoeMoney blog)
   Blogged: Saturday, June 20, 2009
5. Dear Twitter: failure is not an option (for branding)
   Blogged: Sunday, April 12, 2009
6. DiggBar is a Howl of Desperation
   (Ted Dziuba blog)
   Blogged: Saturday, April 11, 2009
7. Google calls it 'minimalist aesthetic' but it's a euphemism for ugly
   (caught |n between blog)
   Blogged: Sunday, March 29, 2009
8. Guy Kawasaki Discloses Ghost Writers, Defuses Issue
   (davefleet blog)
   Blogged: Wednesday, March 25, 2009
9. Zappos CEO's shoes need a little more kick
   (CNET News)
   Blogged: Saturday, March 14, 2009
10. Social Media Goes to Court and Bites Users
    (B.L. Ochman's weblog)
    Blogged: Tuesday, February 3, 2009
11. The Social Brain Hypothesis or 150 meaningful relationships are enough
    (Tobias Escher at the OII blog)
    Blogged: Wednesday, January 28, 2009
12. Invading MySpace
    (TheRoot.com)
    Blogged: Sunday, December 14, 2008
13. Calm, Reasoned Analysis Of MySpace, And The Cretins That Flock To It
    (BusinessWeek.com)
    Blogged: Sunday, December 7, 2008
14. Who killed the blogosphere?
    (Rough Type Blog)
    Blogged: Monday, November 10, 2008
15. Spam gets 1 response per 12,500,000 emails
    (TechRadar UK)
    Blogged: Monday, November 10, 2008
16. How the CNN Holographic Interview System Works
    (Gizmodo)
    Blogged: Wednesday, November 5, 2008
17. Digital Dark Age May Doom Some Data
    (Tech News Watch)
    Blogged: Tuesday, October 28, 2008
18. Idiot Calls in Faux-Sick, Gets Busted by Facebook
    (TechDarling)
    Blogged: Saturday, October 25, 2008
19. Terrorist 'tweets'? US Army warns of Twitter dangers
    (Infowars)
    Blogged: Saturday, October 25, 2008
20. Quitting FriendFeed
    (rizzn's personal blog)
    Blogged: Friday, October 24, 2008
21. The intelligent cloud
    (Official Google Blog)
    Blogged: Sunday, September 21, 2008
22. Assembling your 'party': Five kinds of friends you should make on social networks
    (Andy De Soto blog)
    Blogged: Monday, August 18, 2008
23. The Digital Stakhanovite
    (W3C Q&A Weblog)
    Blogged: Sunday, August 17, 2008
24. Tuning and Feeding: My best practices for getting the most out of Twitter
    (Smart Mobs blog)
    Blogged: Friday, August 15, 2008
25. My first Facebook FAIL evar!
    Blogged: Sunday, August 3, 2008
26. The Fantastic Future of FriendFeed
    (Macro Linz blog)
    Blogged: Wednesday, June 18, 2008
27. The fuss about FriendFeed
    (FT.com Tech Blog)
    Blogged: Wednesday, June 18, 2008
28. The Filter
    (BuzzFeed)
    Blogged: Saturday, June 7, 2008
29. Get Satisfaction
    Blogged: Monday, May 5, 2008
30. Quick Guide to Twitter
    (iAdam blog)
    Blogged: Monday, May 5, 2008
31. MySocial AIR
    Blogged: Monday, May 5, 2008
32. How to build the Open Mesh
    (Marc's Voice blog)
    Blogged: Sunday, May 4, 2008
33. twistori
    Blogged: Wednesday, April 30, 2008
34. The Coming of the Holodeck
    (New York Times Blog)
    Blogged: Saturday, April 12, 2008
35. The Ever Watchful Eye of Google
    (Awaken Your Superhero blog)
    Blogged: Saturday, March 15, 2008
36. Surveillance & Society
    Blogged: Saturday, March 15, 2008
37. Accumulator
    Blogged: Sunday, February 24, 2008
38. TED Talks
    Blogged: Monday, February 18, 2008
39. Human ID Chips Get Under My Skin
    (BusinessWeek.com)
    Blogged: Monday, February 18, 2008
40. Facebook: What They Really Have On You
    (5min Video)
    Blogged: Monday, February 18, 2008
41. Microsoft Makes $44.6 Billion Bid for Yahoo! Yawn.
    (IP Democracy)
    Blogged: Saturday, February 2, 2008
42. Adventures in $40 eyeglasses
    (43 Folders)
    Blogged: Friday, January 25, 2008
43. Reinforcing the Blockbuster Nature of Media: The Impact of Online Recommenders
    (Knowledge@Wharton)
    Blogged: Monday, October 8, 2007
44. Net Usage Index
    (Akamai.com)
    Blogged: Tuesday, September 11, 2007
45. QOTD (from a few days ago, even):
    (Blog Maverick)
    Blogged: Thursday, August 30, 2007
46. Junk In A Box: 300-Page AT&T Bill for iPhone
    (Gizmodo)
    Blogged: Monday, August 13, 2007
47. ThisNext
    Blogged: Wednesday, August 8, 2007
48. iA Web Trendmap 2007
    Blogged: Sunday, July 29, 2007
49. Facebook Users vs MySpace Users: We Report, You Decide
    (Mashable blog)
    Blogged: Sunday, July 1, 2007
50. Microsoft Surface
    Blogged: Thursday, May 31, 2007
51. The Wizards of Buzz
    (WSJ.com)
    Blogged: Sunday, March 4, 2007
52. Burgers paid for by mobile phone
    Blogged: Tuesday, February 27, 2007
53. Twelve-steps to curing e-mail addiction
    (CNN.com)
    Blogged: Saturday, February 24, 2007
54. 'Infomania' worse than marijuana
    Blogged: Saturday, February 24, 2007
55. SoCal man charged with uploading Oscar screener onto Web
    (Mercury News/AP)
    Blogged: Thursday, February 22, 2007
56. Dell crowdsources innovation
    (The Social Web/ZDNet.com)
    Blogged: Thursday, February 22, 2007
57. Hollywood set to enter world of user-generated content
    (Revolution Magazine)
    Blogged: Tuesday, January 23, 2007
58. iPhone
    (Apple.com)
    Blogged: Wednesday, January 10, 2007
59. Beware the Online Collective
    (Edge.org)
    Blogged: Sunday, December 31, 2006
60. The Low Point
    (Jeremy Allison Column)
    Blogged: Sunday, December 24, 2006
61. Changing the Game
    (I, Cringely/PBS.org)
    Blogged: Saturday, December 16, 2006
62. New word: robocall
    (Talking Points Memo blog)
    Blogged: Monday, November 6, 2006
63. Yahoo hooks up with Current TV
    (The Technology Chronicles)
    Blogged: Thursday, September 21, 2006
64. The 25 Worst Web Sites
    (PC World)
    Blogged: Saturday, September 16, 2006
65. How mobile Rivers work
    (NewsRiver.Org)
    Blogged: Saturday, September 9, 2006
66. YouTube Bubble-Burst Pool
    (Will Video for Food blog)
    Blogged: Monday, September 4, 2006
67. Web 2.0? It's the same old media
    (The Internet is People blog)
    Blogged: Wednesday, August 9, 2006
68. What the Internet really looks like
    (Fortune/CNN.com)
    Blogged: Tuesday, August 1, 2006
69. What goes on the Net stays on the Net
    (PBS/I, Cringely)
    Blogged: Tuesday, August 1, 2006
70. MySpace sued for failure to protect against sexual predators
    (AlterNet)
    Blogged: Wednesday, June 21, 2006
71. Why Getting the User To Create Web Content Isn't Always Progress
    (WSJ.com)
    Blogged: Saturday, June 10, 2006
72. Face Recognition Software Goes Public
    (Technology Review)
    Blogged: Wednesday, May 17, 2006
73. A grand unified theory of YouTube and MySpace
    (Slate.com)
    Blogged: Saturday, April 29, 2006
74. Friendster lost steam. Is MySpace just a fad?
    Blogged: Thursday, April 6, 2006
75. The Looming Attention Crisis
    (A VC blog)
    Blogged: Wednesday, November 2, 2005
76. Typepad: The Ups & Downs of a Successful Service
    Blogged: Friday, October 28, 2005
77. Web 2.0 Cracks Start to Show
    (Wired News)
    Blogged: Thursday, October 27, 2005
78. No Longer Safe for Work: Blogs
    (Wired News)
    Blogged: Tuesday, October 25, 2005
79. Ning
    Blogged: Thursday, October 20, 2005
80. Google Earth threatens democracy
    (The Register UK)
    Blogged: Monday, September 26, 2005
81. Writing sensible email messages
    (43 Folders)
    Blogged: Monday, September 19, 2005
82. NerdTV
    (PBS.org)
    Blogged: Wednesday, September 14, 2005
83. Internet TV
    Blogged: Tuesday, August 16, 2005
84. PostSecret
    Blogged: Tuesday, August 9, 2005
85. mashuptown.com
    Blogged: Sunday, July 31, 2005
86. MP3 Mash-ups
    (99X.com)
    Blogged: Sunday, July 24, 2005
87. File-sharing suffers major defeat.
    Blogged: Monday, June 27, 2005
88. Jungle Podcast
    Blogged: Monday, June 20, 2005
89. Coming soon: Googling the truth
    (Guardian Unlimited)
    Blogged: Sunday, June 19, 2005
90. The Interactive Truth
    (New York Times)
    Blogged: Friday, June 17, 2005
91. America's Most Unwired Cities
    Blogged: Tuesday, June 7, 2005
92. Man Bites Phish
    (I, Cringely)
    Blogged: Saturday, June 4, 2005
93. Crazy Frog ringtone tops British charts
    (Engadget)
    Blogged: Monday, May 30, 2005
94. iPod bartender
    Blogged: Friday, May 20, 2005
95. Tiny tags in chips to track gamblers
    (The Seattle Times)
    Blogged: Wednesday, May 18, 2005
96. Hiring is Obsolete
    (PaulGraham.com)
    Blogged: Wednesday, May 18, 2005
97. NYT.com to charge for Op-Ed, other content as of Sept
    (MediaPost)
    Blogged: Monday, May 16, 2005
98. Kottke's New Internet
    (Mark Bernstein blog)
    Blogged: Monday, May 2, 2005
99. The Dumbing Down of America
    (PC Magazine)
    Blogged: Friday, April 22, 2005
100. Murdoch: Newspapers Must Stop Fearing Web
     (Editor & Publisher)
     Blogged: Monday, April 18, 2005
101. Celebrity house tour via Google Maps
     (Magnetbox blog)
     Blogged: Sunday, April 17, 2005
102. My Office ... from outer space
     (Google Maps)
     Blogged: Wednesday, April 6, 2005
103. Behind the curtain
     (BrandShift blog)
     Blogged: Monday, March 28, 2005
104. Grafedia
     Blogged: Saturday, February 26, 2005
105. Last.FM
     Blogged: Thursday, October 7, 2004
106. How-To: Podcasting (aka How to get Podcasts and also make your own)
     (Engadget.com)
     Blogged: Tuesday, October 5, 2004
107. Social Networking Map: Black Bloggers
     (Formica blog)
     Blogged: Tuesday, September 28, 2004
108. The Age of iPod Politics
     (Time.com)
     Blogged: Tuesday, September 28, 2004
109. My Tuesday with the World Economy Forum
     (Joho the Blog)
     Blogged: Friday, September 24, 2004
110. Opening up TV, a new API
     (counternotions blog)
     Blogged: Friday, September 17, 2004
111. People's Republic of Mac
     (Wired News)
     Blogged: Monday, September 13, 2004
112. 44,000 prison inmates to be RFID-chipped
     (silicon.com)
     Blogged: Monday, August 23, 2004
113. HDTV, DVD, Hard Drives and the future
     (Blog Maverick)
     Blogged: Monday, August 23, 2004
114. DNA technique protects against 'evil' emails
     (New Scientist)
     Blogged: Thursday, August 19, 2004
115. del.icio.us
     Blogged: Monday, August 16, 2004
116. Picture What Matters
     (Yahoo! Mobile/Yahoo! Photos)
     Blogged: Wednesday, August 11, 2004
117. Identity Theft 911
     Blogged: Friday, July 30, 2004
118. Microsoft's Sacred Cash Cow
     (Seattle Weekly)
     Blogged: Sunday, June 6, 2004
119. dodgeball.com
     Blogged: Thursday, May 27, 2004
120. Amazon (thumbs up), Apple iTunes (thumbs down)
     Blogged: Thursday, May 27, 2004
121. Baja Beach Club in Barcelona, Spain Launches Microchip Implantation for VIP Members
     (PrisonPlanet.com)
     Blogged: Sunday, May 23, 2004
122. Army gunning for game players
     (CNET News.com)
     Blogged: Wednesday, May 19, 2004
123. Too Many Fake Friends
     (PCMag)
     Blogged: Wednesday, May 5, 2004
124. Blog justice and its discontents.
     (allaboutgeorge.com blog)
     Blogged: Thursday, April 29, 2004
125. YASNS Meta List, Comments Please?
     (The Social Software Weblog)
     Blogged: Tuesday, April 20, 2004
126. Taglines Galore
     Blogged: Thursday, April 8, 2004
127. Commodity Music
     (Yahoo!)
     Blogged: Thursday, March 25, 2004
128. High-Tech Background Checks Hit Stores
     (Excite)
     Blogged: Saturday, March 13, 2004
129. ID Theft
     (FTC.gov)
     Blogged: Saturday, March 6, 2004
130. engadget
     Blogged: Thursday, March 4, 2004
131. The truth about Orkut.com
     (Corante:Many-to-Many)
     Blogged: Friday, February 27, 2004
132. PeopleAggregator.com source code
     Blogged: Thursday, February 12, 2004
133. GarageBand Kicks Out the Jams
     (Wired News)
     Blogged: Monday, February 9, 2004
134. Treo-diction
     (gigaom blog)
     Blogged: Thursday, February 5, 2004
135. My Hoopty, um, My Treo600!
     Blogged: Wednesday, January 28, 2004
136. Philips Creates Foldable Screens for E-Newspapers
     (Reuters)
     Blogged: Monday, January 26, 2004
137. Content Deliverance
     (TheFeature)
     Blogged: Sunday, January 25, 2004
138. Does Mobile Telephony Disconnect People from City Life?
     (TheFeature)
     Blogged: Thursday, January 22, 2004
139. iCalShare
     Blogged: Thursday, January 22, 2004
140. Profitless Prosperity?
     (GigaOm)
     Blogged: Sunday, January 11, 2004
141. 75% of Net Users Connect Sans Browser
     (BigBlueBall)
     Blogged: Sunday, January 11, 2004
142. A Big Garage
     (Daring Fireball blog)
     Blogged: Wednesday, January 7, 2004
143. Curt Schilling, Media Theorist?
     (MIT Technology Review)
     Blogged: Monday, January 5, 2004
144. 101 Ways to Save the Internet
     (Wired)
     Blogged: Wednesday, December 31, 2003
145. Blogger's block, collapsing facets and the number 150
     (Joi Ito's Web)
     Blogged: Tuesday, December 23, 2003
146. Technology's Impact on Everything
     (CIO Magazine)
     Blogged: Tuesday, October 14, 2003
147. What's In Your Dock?
     (kottke.org)
     Blogged: Thursday, October 2, 2003
148. Camera Phones
     (Techdirt)
     Blogged: Sunday, September 7, 2003
149. Orrin Hatch's real motives
     (Politech)
     Blogged: Saturday, June 28, 2003
150. No AdSense for you!
     (0xDECAFBAD blog)
     Blogged: Thursday, June 26, 2003
151. G5
     Blogged: Monday, June 23, 2003
152. We're all saps...
     (Interesting Ideas)
     Blogged: Monday, May 26, 2003
153. Are You Living in a Computer Simulation?
     Blogged: Monday, May 19, 2003
154. RIAA apologizes for erroneous letters
     (News.com)
     Blogged: Wednesday, May 14, 2003
155. Creative Commons licenses
     (SATN.org (are you kidding?))
     Blogged: Friday, May 2, 2003
156. Google Watch
     Blogged: Monday, April 28, 2003
157. Surveillance Nation--Part Two
     (MIT Technology Review)
     Blogged: Thursday, April 24, 2003
158. How Consumers and Experts Rate Credibility on the Web
     (Consumer WebWatch)
     Blogged: Tuesday, April 22, 2003
159. Cops use ID info in criminal cases
     (The Collegian/Penn State)
     Blogged: Wednesday, April 9, 2003
160. Tagged Message Delivery Agent (TMDA)
     Blogged: Friday, April 4, 2003
161. Low-Income Homes Play More Video Games
     (Reuters)
     Blogged: Wednesday, April 2, 2003
162. ..::| My Own Self | ::..
     Blogged: Monday, March 17, 2003
163. Poor People! Wanna play Internet?
     (The Register)
     Blogged: Sunday, March 16, 2003
164. A new kind of publishing tool
     (Marc's Voice)
     Blogged: Sunday, January 26, 2003
165. Proposal for Open Media Management
     (Marc's Voice)
     Blogged: Friday, January 17, 2003
166. Violence Breaks out in Los Angeles Cyber Cafes
     (internetnews.com)
     Blogged: Saturday, January 4, 2003
167. When every picture tells a story
     Blogged: Saturday, January 4, 2003
168. Spam king lives large off others' e-mail troubles
     (Detroit FreeP)
     Blogged: Thursday, December 12, 2002
169. When the Spam Hits the Blogs
     (Wired News)
     Blogged: Monday, October 28, 2002
170. Film: Mac Fervor, Malcolm X Style
     (Wired News:)
     Blogged: Thursday, October 17, 2002
171. Riding the MTA's Love Train
     (Flak Magazine)
     Blogged: Wednesday, September 4, 2002
172. The Cathedral and the Bazaar
     Blogged: Sunday, August 25, 2002
173. Little hope for Talk City users
     (CNET.com)
     Blogged: Friday, August 23, 2002
174. Natural Reality SuperWeed kit 1.0
     Blogged: Thursday, August 22, 2002
175. Introducing Overpeer
     Blogged: Monday, July 8, 2002
176. WARCHALK
     Blogged: Saturday, June 29, 2002
177. Analog Rights Management
     (Ditherati)
     Blogged: Wednesday, April 17, 2002
178. Cyberspace and Race
     (Technology Review (MIT))
     Blogged: Friday, March 22, 2002
179. How to Stop Worrying and Learn to Love the Internet
     Blogged: Friday, February 22, 2002
180. Fake or Photo?
     Blogged: Friday, November 16, 2001
181. Mr. Beller's Neighborhood
     Blogged: Tuesday, October 9, 2001
182. Weekend Spam
     Blogged: Monday, October 8, 2001
183. Why does Yahoo encourage racist groups?
     (Design for Community)
     Blogged: Monday, October 8, 2001
184. Voter Virus Infects E-mail
     (ABCNEWS.com)
     Blogged: Tuesday, September 25, 2001
185. Inside.com Names Price - $3.95 a Month
     (Yahoo! News)
     Blogged: Tuesday, July 3, 2001
186. Online privacy fears are real
     (MSNBC)
     Blogged: Sunday, July 1, 2001
187. +he Finger
     Blogged: Monday, June 11, 2001
188. netscape and aol/time-warner, part two
     Blogged: Monday, June 11, 2001
189. Dealing with Blogers (sic)
     Blogged: Saturday, June 9, 2001
190. Site puts private cell calls on Web
     (Canoe)
     Blogged: Friday, June 8, 2001
191. Corporate Websites Suck
     Blogged: Tuesday, June 5, 2001
192. Interview: Dan Bricklin
     (Internet World)
     Blogged: Sunday, May 27, 2001
193. A Case of Stolen Identity
     Blogged: Saturday, May 26, 2001
194. E-Mail Style Depends Upon Gender of Recipient
     (Yahoo! News)
     Blogged: Sunday, May 6, 2001
195. Documentary looks at the downside of Silicon Valley
     (SiliconValley.com)
     Blogged: Tuesday, April 24, 2001
196. 21 Dog Years
     (Mike Daisey's New Show)
     Blogged: Saturday, April 7, 2001
197. The Medium is the Message and the Message is Voyeurism
     (Wired 2.02)
     Blogged: Monday, March 26, 2001
198. Study Faults Hill on E-mail
     (Roll Call)
     Blogged: Tuesday, March 20, 2001
199. Welcome to the Always-On World
     (IEEE Spectrum)
     Blogged: Tuesday, March 20, 2001
200. Bush signs off from the internet
     (London Telegraph)
     Blogged: Tuesday, March 20, 2001
201. Why I am a Bad Correspondent
     (By Neal Stephenson)
     Blogged: Tuesday, March 13, 2001
202. Back the Net: The Crusade
     (ICONOCAST)
     Blogged: Tuesday, March 13, 2001
203. Check your Rep
     (RedHerring.com)
     Blogged: Wednesday, February 21, 2001
204. Supertracks
     Blogged: Tuesday, February 20, 2001
205. 'The Web' is a poor metaphor
     Blogged: Monday, February 19, 2001
206. Friend of Jezebel's Mirror
     Blogged: Monday, February 19, 2001
207. Subject: Flash Website Design
     (harrumph!)
     Blogged: Tuesday, February 6, 2001
208. Rob's Giant BonusCard Swap Meet
     Blogged: Monday, January 29, 2001
209. Ginger
     Blogged: Friday, January 26, 2001
210. Turkish Kids Arrested for Web Use
     (Business 2.0)
     Blogged: Friday, January 12, 2001
211. How Internet Users React to Hackers
     (SiliconValley.com)
     Blogged: Monday, February 14, 2000
212. Opinion: Convicted Hacker Kevin Mitnick
     (Time.com)
     Blogged: Monday, February 14, 2000
213. Experts Call Web Assaults 'Tip of Iceberg'
     Blogged: Monday, February 14, 2000
214. Housing technology can bring equity to digital divide
     Blogged: Monday, February 14, 2000
215. MollyCam
     Blogged: Tuesday, January 25, 2000
216. Ana Remote
     Blogged: Tuesday, January 25, 2000
217. Anacam
     Blogged: Tuesday, January 25, 2000
218. Powazek Cam
     Blogged: Tuesday, January 25, 2000
219. Unamerican Kitty Killer States Case
     (Camworld)
     Blogged: Saturday, January 22, 2000
220. DVD Industry Plays Hardball With DeCSS 'Pirates'
     Blogged: Thursday, December 30, 1999