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Testing 1 2 3

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To the list of historic firsts today I would like to add another.  No, it’s not as important as the obvious history that will be made but I think it can be seen as an historic moment nonetheless.  You see today, Inauguration Day, is the first day of a new Presidency but it’s also the first great test of channel preferences. Continue reading

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Who Are You?

On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a dog.  A classic cartoon, I know, but also a sad truth about a number of our interactions in cyberspace.  In particular, I’m thinking about Facebook, and a number of other social media apps out there which do very little proactively to prevent the type of crap about which I wrote yesterday. Continue reading

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Cost Isn’t Value

I read something this morning which I find to be disturbing. It’s a quote from Michael Roth, the Chairman of Interpublic. I’ll get to the quote in a second but the reason why I find it disturbing is that it reveals a fundamental flaw in the media world. It’s not something that’s new but it has had a negative impact for many years and that impact is only increasing. Continue reading

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