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Techdirt (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
We've talked at length about the difference between infinite goods and scarce goods in various areas, and how you should spread the infinite ideas to make the scarce goods more valuable, but here's a great quote that puts that in perspective when it comes to books. Mathew Ingram points us to an interview with entrepreneur and author Seth Godin , where he notes: "Books are souvenirs that...
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Seeking Alpha (Free subscription) | 10/07/2008
Mathew Ingram submits: As the markets see-saw between concern and outright panic over the fate of the U.S. financial bailout, the credit shock that’s rippling through not just North America but most of the Western hemisphere, and the potential for a severe economic downturn, anyone with a Web-based business that depends on advertising has to be asking : Is this the beginning of the end?...
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Smalltalk Tidbits, Industry Rants (Free subscription) | 10/07/2008
Mathew Ingram looks at what a downturn in online advertising could mean for small players, and even for Google: This debate has been going on for almost a year now. Google’s stock price came under fire around the end of last year and the beginning of this year because of concern that the search giant might see a downturn in ad spending that would hit the bottom line. Has it? A little,...
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VentureBeat (Free subscription) | 10/07/2008
... an advertising recession due to the credit crunch, an event that could kill many of them off. Mathew Ingram instead points to a study on the Great Depression , which suggests that advertising was resilient even during the country’s worst financial crisis. Europeans indicted for US cyberattacks — A pair of men have been fingered for a wave of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks...
