The guy who merged America Online and Time Warner has apparently become a “distraction” in the face of disappointment with its post-merger performance. This could perhaps be a reference to all the “What the hell does Steve Case actually do?” questions, the press keeps asking. UPDATE: He’ll remain on the board but he won;t get any severance pay. Why? because he doesn’t believe in employments contracts, reports the Times. (What

Maybe they really do think – as others have pointed out – that there is a time limit on this kind of business. When everyone who wants to be ‘re-united’ has been, what then? It may now be for sale for

Whenever my wife has difficulty sleeping she usually asks me to explain the principles behind social software. While the technical aspects behind it are less than exciting, she may find one social software project, which officially launches today, actually interesting. Why? Because it might just help us find a decent builder in the area. One of the first projects to map the comments of real people to real places is

Jindal is also right to make the point that traditional marketing is “fantastically wasteful in trying to influence niche, expert communities”. In fact, the COI New Media Director (idiot more like) who recently called for ABC audits to be practically mandatory in NMA is simply re-running the failed argument that you have to treat new media like old media and blast advertising across sites as if it is a broadcast

Quite frankly, who gives a $*&()%$ if these sites are