The new version of WordPress (the software for this blog) has a small bug. If you make comments, they’ll show up, but the counter at the bottom of each post says “No Comments” no matter how many there are. Apologies.

After I posted about the disconnect between AT+T’s advertising about blogging, and their actual “delivery” of it online, I decided to look a little further. Another variation on the theme….

Eric Weaver writes an inspired rant about direct marketers treating customers as if they were clay pigeons. I show that the practice is not restricted to the “Old School” marketers.

Buy a commercial for the Superbowl and you’ll spend approx. $2.5M for a 30-second spot. Add $1.5M for production, and that works out to about $83K per second. What could you do with that kind of money?

with the introduction today of the public beta of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 7, internationalized domain names (IDNs) are about to enter a new phase. It’s a huge step forward for non-English-speaking people and a huge challenge for intellectual property owners, and possibly for the future of a unified Internet.

An underlying theme of the new web economy is authenticity and trust. Blogs have it, corporate web sites don’t. Or so they say. How does it work, and will it last?