Chris Webb

Straight Talk on the Price of Free Content

Much has been written about the power of free content.  The publishing industry is struggling with the balance between free content (or entire books for free) for advertising and promotion and lost sales.  Experiments have had mixed results, and sometimes you are left with that nagging thought, “what if we had not given it away [...]

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Partly Cloudy: Amazon’s S3 Service Goes Down

We’ve been hearing for some time that the future of our data storage is “in the cloud.” Many of us already use cloud storage for email (GMail), files (XDrive) and backup (Mozy) among many others. But what happens when you can no longer reach your data? Several companies found out today when Amazon.com’s S3 [...]

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Steve Rubel Says We’re Drunk

Edelman’s Steve Rubel admits he’s been guilty of Shiny Object Syndrome, and is worried he is getting that old bubble feeling again. This is a sad time for the web. It’s as almost somber as the time just before the last bubble burst in 2000. I was working in PR with dot-com startups at the [...]

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