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Users buy containers because they expect to get value out of their contents

Actually, containers are very similar to markets — the containers I am talking about are words: more specifically, keyword domain names. Whereas suppliers use these containers to advertise and sell their goods and services, consumers use containers to express their … Continue reading

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If words weren’t here, I don’t think…

I’m working on an essay related to that title — and although the idea behind the essay is based mostly on my own ideas and also ideas Noam Chomsky shared in a talk he gave in Köln last year, the … Continue reading

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Not so fast!

If it takes 7 years for an idea to emerge via social media (did “social media” even exist as a concept 7 years ago?), then that is — in my opinion — quite slow. One reason why it might be … Continue reading

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New German Government Question + Answer Website off to a very slow start

The website is being called “Dialog über Deutschland” — and apparently it is severely understaffed. Suggestions are either not being posted at all or not until long after being submitted. It almost seems as if they thought they could get … Continue reading

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Richard Edelman on trust in media melange

Richard Edelman talks about results from the 2012 Edelman Trust Barometer study: Question: Is there — perhaps — an inverse relationship between the trust in media sources and the size of the media company? Take a look at my reasoning … Continue reading

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Social Media Advice from Adam Kmiec

A couple years ago, I still read “tweets” (that is what a lot of so-called social media gurus call blog posts posted at twitter.com). Back then, one of my favorite authors @ twitter.com was Adam Kmiec. After I stopped paying … Continue reading

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It’s the end of the search as we know it :)

New + Improved: Findings Linked In News Post Forum

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An Alternative Domain Registration Model for the ICANN Top Level Domains Idea

Warning: This model is different. I actually ran it by some friends to see if they could come up with what might be wrong with it — so far, no one has come up with anything. One thing that may … Continue reading

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Occupy Keyword Search

Less than a month ago, I suggested in a call-in talk-radio show, that “occupy” might become a term traded on Google’s Adwords marketplace (see “Redet Geld, schweigt die Welt. Was uns Werte wert sein müssen“). The talk-show hosts didn’t think … Continue reading

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The Web is closer to the phenomenological truth of our lives [David Weinberger]

Now, he said, the model of a protean, ever-linked and ever-changing world is killing that. “The dream of the West has been that we will live together in knowledge, that there is One Knowledge. The Web is saying ‘Nice try,’” … Continue reading

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