Jeff Nolan's take on innovation, entrepreneurship, tech and stuff that interests me
At first I thought this was pretty clear but then the FTC decided to complicate things by saying about their own regulations that they were “guidelines” and not “regulations”. However, in that same statement they said that advertisers would be required to adhere to the guidelines, so what is the difference between a guideline and [...]
I really wonder what is worse for Ralph Lauren’s brand, their use of Photoshop to distort their models in unnatural (and a little perverse as well) ways, or their public relations efforts in the wake of coverage of it. Their efforts going after bloggers brings them unwanted attention (not all PR is good PR, really) [...]
Defrag, one of my favorite events, is just around the corner, November 11-12 in Denver. Use discount code “EJN1″ to get 10% off the registration fee. I recommend this event without reservation because this is not only a timely event in terms of topic but it also brings together a powerful collection of can-do people [...]
Broadcast schedules are two dimensional, there is a time slot and a desired demographic, which has conspired to make broadcast networks rather uninteresting destinations for good TV. The 22 minute sitcom format is dead while dramatic series are rarely given the time necessary for characters to develop. It’s often forgotten that the venerable Law & [...]
President Obama was honored with the Nobel Prize for Peace today, here’s why he should have declined it. In declining the award, pointing to worthy organizations that have actually accomplished much, like the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the President would have appeared disarmingly magnanimous on the world stage and instantly deflated those who accuse [...]
My new column, Cleantech Counterpoint, on Gigaom’s Earth2Tech blog debuted today, with the first installment focusing on California’s AB32 carbon emissions law and a retrospective look at what is going on in Spain. I have, like many others, been fascinated with energy technology and agree with many of my peers that this is the next [...]
There are few events in the history of a country as consequential as when it decides to go to war. The Peloponnese and Carthaginians were advanced societies, the cultural and power centers of their respective regions, remembered now for the wars they fought and lost; Sparta for a last stand at the Battle of Leuctra [...]
It’s odd that so few of the stories about the AP and charging for content point out that the AP itself is a cooperative owned by a group of newspapers. Therefore, when the AP talks about charging some online customers more than others, what they are really saying is that they will band together to [...]
Microsoft’s PR group sent out this research note this morning and while I don’t normally respond to such outreach this one caught my attention. IDC prepared it and makes some pretty bold projections like technology spending will grow at 3x the rate of GDP growth for 52 countries surveyed (no word on who those 52 [...]
The Cartoon Introduction to Economics… h/t Greg Mankiw