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With so much data shared with third-party services, how much privacy do we really have nowadays? What are the limits to what YOU share online?
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Jeremiah Owyang: “Who has more data about Gen Y: Facebook or the US Government?”
Tommy Vallier
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I rarely make predictions. That is ‘cus I am usually wrong. For example, in the early 80s when some of my friends were talking about the band U2 (whom you might have heard of since) I remember saying something to the effect of “yeah U2 are okay, but they’ll never be as popular […]

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Sometimes media creators get paid for creating. Sometimes they don’t. When SHOULD you get paid?
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Chris Brogan on why “Making Money Isn’t Evil”
Podcasters Across Borders pab2008

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On the most recent Media Bullseye podcast, Aaron Brazell (a.k.a. Technosailor) stated “If FriendFeed is going to have adoption (in the) mainstream, there’s going to have to be a name change. FriendFeed sounds tremendously creepy.”
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Do you find that limits and structure make you more creative, or are you most creative when you have all the time and opportunity in the world?

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Things have been a bit nuts for me since the very successful Canadian Marketing Association Conference “From Mass to Grass” but I did want take a moment to share three of my favorite quotes of the day:
“Treat every (customer) who calls like they are Oprah.” - Julie Cole from Mabel’s Labels
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Will old media be killed off by new media? History would seem to indicate otherwise, but what do you think?
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Steve Ballmer in the Washington Post, Thursday June 5, 2008
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From Billboard.com today:
AC/DC’s next studio album will be exclusively sold at Wal-Mart stores in the United States, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal. The as-yet-untitled Columbia album, which, as previously reported, was produced by Brendan O’Brien, is expected in the fall.
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…There will be no media consumption left in 10 years that is not delivered over an IP network. There will be no newspapers, no magazines that are delivered in paper form. Everything gets delivered in an electronic form.
Steve Ballmer in the Washington Post, Thursday June 5, 2008
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Listening today to last week’s Media Bulleye roundtable podcast (in particular their discussion of “social media burnout”) got me to thinking about the status of various technologies relative to our dear old friend the “fishbowl” a.k.a. the echo chamber a.k.a. are we all just a bunch of nerds talking to ourselves?
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