I ran across this article today that says that Sam Zell, who just bought the Tribune Company, is likely to sell the naming rights to Wrigley Field. If you know anything about Sam Zell then this comes as no surprise. Such a move by Zell is likely to create lots of...
Umair Haque at Harvard gives us this article discussing The Shrinking Advantage of Brands. The genesis of the article is a report that Google has become the top brand in the world even though it intentionally avoids traditional brand advertising. Haque defines a brand...
So, today is the 24th birthday of the Mac. Its kinda funny because a few months ago I found the invoices for my first mac, which I bought in 1994. My first Mac was a Performa 475. It had a 68LC040, 32-bit architecture, 25 megahertz (MHz) processor. It also came with...
The nice thing about not having anybody looking at your site is that you aren’t really constrained by deadlines. So, a little bit belatedly, here are some thoughts and links from 2007. For me, the biggest news event of 2007 is definitely The Great Geek Uprising...
The struggles of oldline media in a new media world show no sign of abating. This Businessweek article discusses the fall of the San Jose Mercury News, and its parent Knight Ridder, over the last decade. Between Craigslist destroying the economics of the classified...
