One of my favourite parodies is Ogden Nash’s Song Of the Open Road, a take on Joyce Kilmer’s Trees:
I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall
I shall not see a tree at all.Â
Amazingly, he wrote this in 1933. Even more amazingly, it is still copyright protected, thirty [...]
Musing about parodies and copyright and mashups
June 27th, 2007 · 1 Comment · Four pillars
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21st century technology adoption curves and Facebook and innovation
June 27th, 2007 · 3 Comments · Four pillars
Everything changes. Now one of the changes that has intrigued me this past decade is in the nature of the technology adoption curve. Simply put, for most of my life, I was used to a particular adoption curve. In order to experiment with emerging technologies, you had to be 28-40, a high-achieving professional, working for [...]
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