Digital

Market-Making on the Internet

Wednesday, May 5, 2021

More and more opportunities on the web come from market marking, not for advertisers, but for real goods and services paid for with real money.

Facebook’s Audio Announcements, Facebook and Creators

Tuesday, April 20, 2021

Facebook made a host of “coming soon” announcements around audio, and laid out a compelling vision for creators that is limited by Facebook’s fundamental nature.

Stripe’s Role, Competition and Differentiation, The Local News Opportunity

Tuesday, March 23, 2021

Differentiation can flow from the writer, but also from the subject. That is why the Substack model could help deliver the local news business model.

Sovereign Writers and Substack

Monday, March 22, 2021

Substack is at the center of media controversy, most of which misses the point that sovereign writers — not Substack — are in control.

More from Daniel Ek; Creation, Consumption, and Clubhouse; Facebook and Australia, Continued

Wednesday, February 24, 2021

Google Makes Deal With News Corp, Facebook Blocks News in Australia, Microsoft’s Cynicism

Thursday, February 18, 2021

Google gives in in Australia, not to the government, but to News Corp. Facebook, meanwhile, pulls out; they are right on the merits, but terrible at the politics.

Clubhouse’s Inevitability

Monday, February 15, 2021

Clubhouse will do for audio what Twitter, Instagram Stories, and TikTok did for text, images, and video.

Mistakes, Memes, and Foreign Ground; Coronavirus Context; The New York Times and the China Model

Wednesday, February 10, 2021

Considering a world of memes is uncomfortable, and perhaps explains why journalists want a world of information control. The problem is that we will never be better at this than China.

Mistakes and Memes

Tuesday, February 9, 2021

Information on the Internet is conveyed by memes, which can be anything and everything. The real world impacts are only now being understood.

Publishing is Back to the Future

Wednesday, January 27, 2021

Journalism cannot afford to be divorced from business realities; that applies to Australia, the New York Times, and even Andreessen Horowitz.

Play-In Chaos and Knueppel Slippage, Anyone But the Thunder, Title Picks and Awards Resolution

Stripe’s Role, Competition and Differentiation, The Local News Opportunity

Sovereign Writers and Substack

More from Daniel Ek; Creation, Consumption, and Clubhouse; Facebook and Australia, Continued

Play-In Chaos and Knueppel Slippage, Anyone But the Thunder, Title Picks and Awards Resolution

Vibe App Quality

(Preview) Six Questions on Frontier AI Labs, Messaging AI to a Skeptical Public, Amazon (and Apple?) Ramps Up Competition with Elon

TSMC Earnings, New N3 Fabs, The Nvidia Ramp

An Interview with F1 Driver and Venture Capitalist Nico Rosberg About the Drive to Win

Amazon Buys Globalstar, Delta to Add Leo, The Apple Angle

Play-In Chaos and Knueppel Slippage, Anyone But the Thunder, Title Picks and Awards Resolution

Vibe App Quality

(Preview) Six Questions on Frontier AI Labs, Messaging AI to a Skeptical Public, Amazon (and Apple?) Ramps Up Competition with Elon

An Interview with F1 Driver and Venture Capitalist Nico Rosberg About the Drive to Win

An Interview with Asymco’s Horace Dediu About Apple at 50

An Interview with Arm CEO Rene Haas About Selling Chips