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  • Goodmail Brings Opposites Together

    Liberal MoveOn.org and conservative RightMarch.com are both political action committees. They usually find themselves pitted against each other on many issues of interest, but on the issue of Goodmail they find that they finally have…

  • DM Pimping Cartoon V21

    Persistent Screamers become comic book creations in the newest addition to the Confidential, DM Pimping. The Web Surfing Sinners get brought to animated life in this weekly cartoon for the online media masses. Click below to get flashed by the prettiest peons and ugliest underbelly of affiliate life.

  • A Rebuttal in Favor of Ad Networks

    I must admit; this week I wanted to cover what will be a hot topic in the weeks to follow. There is a shakeup coming in the education lead generation landscape, and it’s being led by one of the largest buyers of leads and one of…

  • Web Two Point Uh-Oh: Life in a syndicated world

    Were Internet advertising like wines, then Vintage 2004 would be considered a good year. The drought that plagued the online ad market for most of 2000 through the end of 2002 is now just a blip on the radar, a slight false start, not…

  • “Starbucks-China” Blend: A Slam Dunk Grande

    Admittedly, there are few genuine “can’t miss” propositions. But I’ve got one for you, Starbucks in China. Giant corporations being granted carte blanche in a totalitarian environment are reminiscent of an age when kings granted…

  • Viva Entourage

    HBO is sending its Entourage to Acapulco for Spring Break. The cast of the hit show won’t be there in person, but Entourage will have plenty of presence

  • Going Digital

    Like the medieval monks who transitioned from illuminated manuscripts to the Gutenberg press, or the town criers who were superceded by Poor Richard’s

  • Lead Markets

    The “interpreter of supply and demand,” that was a definition I came across when trying to figure out how to describe markets and marketplaces. When I hear the word, I think of the stock market, of people buying and selling in…

  • Keywords are KEY (Part 2)

    So you’ve developed a core list of keywords to bid on, now what? Filter what you currently have. After I develop my core list of keywords, I like to go through my list to double check that I do not have any keywords that…