Tech & Etc

How will the “stories” concept evolve?  After all, we’ve all been sitting around campfires gesturing at each other and putting dyes on cave walls in some form for thousands of years.

The business model of online advertising isn’t sustainable for traditional publishers who focus on premium content - they have to appeal to the lowest common denominator (slideshows, gossip, headlines) to get enough impressions-click-throughs to tread water

I think it would be much more interesting to think about why talented people sometimes can’t change a company, how org structures affect innovation and all the lessons I learned trying to build revenue at one point and building engagement at another point for Yahoo.

Facebook increasingly feels like online Wal-Mart to me, where experiences are bolted on and users are routed through the bargain bin without anything working or designed well.

Look, I’m not saying marketing is evil or useless. It’s like any other organizational tool. The thing is, you can recognize great marketers right away.  The bad ones?  Those are harder to sort through.

Joshua Nguyen: good luck! Cynthia Johansan: thank you! you are on the big screen in fisticuffs. Cynthia Johansan: go suck a new york hotdog Cynthia Johansan: (from zack, with love) Joshua Nguyen: HALLLLOOOOO Cynthia Johansan: "dirty water dog" Joshua Nguyen: GOOD LUCK! Joshua Nguyen: FINALLY! Cynthia Johansan: (from