Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s distinctly different take on the Long Tail.

James M. Woods joins Names@Work as its Chief Operating Officer. Read the press release to see what it really means.

We’ve just published a glossary of Internet marketing terms, and a WordPress plugin automatically links keywords that appear on our site to the glossary. Let us know what you think!

Four years ago my good friend Jeffrey Lewis died. An appreciation of a great man.

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.

The French protest a proposed law that makes the Digital Millenium Copyright Act seem tame; two new French blogs of interest

I plug my interview in which I plug Names@Work

A New Yorker cartoon thinks it’s funny. It’s actually accidentally visionary….

The Zyman Group thinks that customers “in the end” customers “are helpless… they buy the stuff you want them to.” Is this Web .00000001?

While even ICANN’s most loyal supporters are demoralized by its latest deal with VeriSign, the view from Tunis, where the U.N./ITU-sponsored WSIS meeting just finished, is even more dismal.