Monthly Archives: May 2006

Leadership lessons from China

There are some interesting leadership and management lessons from some of the Chinese manufacturing systems that can be applied at all levels of an organization to make it more innovation-friendly. The contrast between leading and managing may be subtle to … Continue reading

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Media needs to reflect attention, not collect attention

The “Edge” economists generated a swirl of activity over the last couple of weeks inspired by an attention economy paper apparently written in 1997 and referenced by Esther Dyson in a WSJ article. Photo: eva8 In this paper, Michael Goldhaber … Continue reading

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I’m turning into a mumbling idiot

I was comparing my feed collection with Micah Laaker the other day, and I realized that the scope of my intake just keeps getting narrower and narrower. Looking at other user’s lists in the Share your OPML system, it seems … Continue reading

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Reach vs target marketing: how to reduce the waste

There are 2 somewhat opposing forces that advertisers are always trying to reconcile: broader reach higher precision Search marketing solves the former. And niche publishing solves the latter. It seems to me that there are ways everyone could benefit from … Continue reading

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“Loosley Coupled” does not mean “Easy to build”

The concept of “Loose Coupling” is great on so many levels. I’ve used it to describe different types of things in ideal worlds, but I’m starting to see that there is a lot of gray area there that can be … Continue reading

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IDG’s private-label CPC ad system

Most publishers are either looking to capitalize on the CPC text link advertisement bidding concept or they already have a plan for implementing something in this space. IDG found their private-label CPC bidding tool solution with Quigo, a competitor of … Continue reading

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