A CORRECTION 

It's not Madge Weinstein who has an OPML blog: it's the ever-creative Richard Bluestein. OK? OK!

BTW: I thought it was f*cking hilarious how long it seemed to take for Adam and Dave to realise this back in the day. D.O.H!

[note to self: do not under any circumstances let either Adam or Dave ever introduce you to 'some fit chick' they met online. ;) heh]

WEIRD. AM I BEING BUGGED? 

Heh. I hear talk of stalkers and whatnot coming from unexpected directions and then I read about the old Dave and Adam story and why things went sour. I was asked about this tonight. I had nothing to say about that spat in particular. 'None of my business' is the reply, but the passion does interest me. Especially with advertising and technology.

Put it this way: if you don't realise that everything you know is going to change, be that content, advertising, affiliation, distribution, relationships ('real' or percieved by advertisers) then you're going to be way behind the curve - today and tomorrow. OK. maybe 'change' is the wrong word: let's say 'evolve'.

With B2B or B2C or whatever, and the (in my experience) historically dishonest business of advertising (ie: a lot of money gets made for ads and campaigns which never deliver results) the message keeps coming from people who don't have the authority to 'sell' something. Be that an idea or a product. Blogging and Podcasting and the internet as whole has changed that. Forever. We have REAL people who like SOMETHING saying to EVERYONE that they LIKE it. That's all. And that HAS VALUE. (Who benefits from this is where the argument possibly lies)

I spend a signifcant amount of time teaching people (who should know (and get paid to know) better) about all this. Now, should we 'spend ourselves' working this out for 'them', with little credit or renumeration, or should we start monetising our own abilities and showing the industries how to do it right or just sit back and blog about it when they screw up?

You want a hand? Call me. I'd be happy to help formulate plans and execute them. ;)

OH. MY. GOD. 

I think the sh*t is really going to hit the fan for this video of soldiers randomly shooting at civilians from a truck. Shocking.

From the UK Sunday Telegraph: ""

A "trophy" video appearing to show security guards in Baghdad randomly shooting Iraqi civilians has sparked two investigations after it was posted on the internet, the Sunday Telegraph can reveal.

The video has sparked concern that private security companies, which are not subject to any form of regulation either in Britain or in Iraq, could be responsible for the deaths of hundreds of innocent Iraqis.

Read this: it's sad and interesting: Ted Westhusing: R.I.P

I try not to get political on this blog - that's not what it's here for, but hey, it's my blog, kinda, right? - but this reeks of the stuff I feel and think strongly about.

It makes me even more angry that this crap happened on my birthday too, as did the Tiananmen Square Massacre in '89: Unjust. Unnecessary. Unfair.

A BLUE FOR YOU 

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