With the recent explosion of audio and video on the Internet, the Internet has evolved from a medium to “media command central.”
I’ve been talking about this shift for the past year, but it’s one of those things that’s so …
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20% a year
Scott McNealy, one of the founders of Sun Microsystems, said that pre-Internet, programmers could count on at least 20% of their knowledge becoming obsolete every year.
In the Internet era, he said the rate increased to 20% per month. …
Gurus, MBAs and other useless people
For years, I’ve been telling my audiences that there are very few reliable places to go to get a marketing education. So if they’re having trouble with their marketing, it’s really not their fault.
On the one hand, you’ve got …
Things have got to change
You can’t be involved in Internet marketing education for very long without becoming dismayed at the lack of ethics of some of the prominent players:
Bogus resumes and made-up biographies, out-of-control plagiarism, and rampant fraud against consumers. It’s become an …
How many?
How many people use the Internet worldwide?
I’ve seen numbers as high as one billion plus.
A company called comScore Networks just came in with a much more conservative number: 694,260. Nothing to sneeze at, but almost half of the …
Don’t break the Net
Should we let US telecom and cable companies turn the Internet into a two-tier network?
I say “no way.”
Here’s why:
The Internet is a medium. You don’t penalize successful players by charging them more because they make better use …