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The Because Effect and the future of Marketing and IPR and maybe even the Net

September 21st, 2006 · 11 Comments · Four pillars

I have often wondered why we spend so much time wrestling with the issues related to Marketing in the 21st Century, with reframing IPR and DRM, and with “net neutrality“. Why we land up with starkly polarised views and start calling each other names. Blefuscu and Lilliput all over again.
And recently, I’ve begun to think [...]

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Heated arguments

September 21st, 2006 · 9 Comments · Four pillars

This is a post about chillies and about endorphins. If you’re into either, read on, Macduff. I’m into both.
The kernel for this post was a story by Mark Frauenfelder on Boing Boing recently, revisiting an article he’d written some time ago called The Cult of Capsaicin.
In the excerpt, Mark quotes Dave De Witt, a seasoned [...]

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