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  • Trends Report: Saturation

    I’m flying back to the East Coast via Chicago and realizing there is nothing more beautiful than a lightning storm this high up. I’m crammed into a small plane and the air condition doesn’t work

  • Trends Report: Registration Path Redux

    With declines in email open rates, continuing frustrations with the contextual market and dismal banner clicks, driving traffic has been a formidable task for publishers.

  • Trends Report: Desktop Publishing, a Conversation with 180 Solutions

    The desktop space has been a battleground between advertisers, publishers and affiliates in the online marketing industry for years.

  • Trends Report: Spam Redux

    The 2003 DMA’s in Orlando, Fl was inundated with talk of the impending California Spam Law that had just gotten through the state’s legislature.

  • Digital Thoughts – Billion Dollar Netiquette

    Google has done an amazing thing in creating a non-stop self perpetuating media storm over their initial public offering.

  • Lights, Camera, Auction

    Bringing all facets of entertainment to one destination, eBay rolled out the red carpet for the launch of eBay Entertainment in September 2003. The online

  • Digital Thoughts: Working Hard Not Just for the Money

    Why do we work so hard in this industry? Surely, other industries are composed of individuals who work long hours and take little personal time.

  • Is Text and Context Ruling the Roost?

    The hottest space in online advertising is search engine marketing. Google is about to go public and have a market capitalization that will be the envy of just about all online media companies this side of Pluto.

  • Feel the Power

    There’s a scene in the Charlie Chaplin flick Modern Times where Chaplin, playing the working stiff in a massive production plant, races along an assembly

  • Would you like fries with that?

    Competition is good. Free markets are good. Censorship and monopolies are bad.