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2008-07-10

CREATED BY chris • LAST EDITED BY chris 181 days AGO

Opportunity favours the mentally prepared.

Monsieur smi textet in Topklasse.

Not quite unrelated marshallmcluhans Getwitter du jour: "Most people read ads about things they already own. They don't read things to buy them but to feel reassured that they bought the right thing"

2008-07-10-schupla

"Unfortunately, psychiatry is (ironically) a bit too emotionally attached to the traditional diagnostic categories [...]"

2008-07-10-emo

"So, the big change wrought by the internet is not so much to change the shape of the demand curve for media products, as [Chris Anderson] claims; nor has there been no change whatsoever, as [Anita Elberse] posits. The big change is not in what fraction of the demand is in the head, it's in how the items that are in the head got there in the first place.^* Any change in the shape of the curve itself is incidental."

^* Just like with Git!

2008-07-10-tailblazer