An 8.9-magnitude earthquake that struck Japan yesterday, and a tsunami is spreading, right now, across the Pacific ocean. Thus we have much news that is best consumed live and uncooked. Here’s mine, right now: Not many of us carry radios in our pockets any more. Small portable TVs became passé decades ago. None have live coverage on the Net. MORE >>

Thesis #74 of The Cluetrain Manifesto says, “We are immune to advertising. Just forget it.&# We wrote that in 1999, when everybody thought that advertising was going to be THE model for businesses on the Internet. The crash came less than a year later. Then the next bubble came, and this time everybody thought (surprise!) over and over. MORE >>

Branding has jumped the shark. The meme is stale. Worn out. Post-peak. If branding were a show on Fox, it would be cancelled next week. can witness this trend by watching links going to three posts I made last month: Brands are Boring , Brands are Bull and. The Unbearable Lightness of Branding. But doing that isn’t branding. Two points there. MORE >>

My panel was this: Panel 2: Disruptive Technologies and their Impact on Business Models in Other Industries. Sherry Turkle, Abby Rockefeller Mauze Professor of the Social Studies of Science and Technology, MIT Tom Eisenman, William J. It was a good one, and it was fun sharing the side (since there was no stage) with those other good folks. MORE >>

Apple TV (whatever it ends up being called) will kill cable. It will also give TV  new life in a new form. It won’t kill the cable companies, which will still carry data to your house, and which will still get a cut of the content action, somehow. It will also contain whatever deals Apple does for content distribution. To name a few. No way. MORE >>