Fourth parties and VRM

One of my oldest jokes (from back when I used to write them) was “With the two party system you can clean up one while you’re having the other.” Well, I kind of raised the ante with VRM and the Four Party System, almost exactly two years ago. Th…

Fourth parties and VRM

One of my oldest jokes (from back when I used to write them) was “With the two party system you can clean up one while you’re having the other.” Well, I kind of raised the ante with VRM and the Four Party System, almost exactly two years ago. Th…

The Data Bubble II

In The Data Bubble, I told readers to mark the day: 31 July 2010. That’s when The Wall Street Journal published The Web’s Gold Mine: Your Secrets, subtitled A Journal investigation finds that one of the fastest-growing businesses on the Internet…

Beyond caveat emptor

First, three posts by JP Rangaswami:

Does the Web make experts dumb?
Does the Web make esperts dumb, Part 2: who is the teacher?
Does the Web make experts dumb, Part 3: the issues

His bottom line in the last of those: “… people are saying the web…