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Steve Rubel should send a bottle of antacid to subscription services everywhere.  He raises the question of whether the Long Tail will diminish demand (and willingness to pay) for subscription services online.    I would argue that the Long Tail will not threaten creative and innovative providers.  In fact, it will probably create new opportunities. …

When I was a kid one of my coaches told me: “you run like you have a refrigerator on your back!” And that’s likely true. A speed demon I was not. As a baseball player, I suspect there were times when my coach and teammates wondered if I’d be the first player ever to be…

Brian Oberkirch notes that it is Talk Like a Pirate Day.  Unfortunately, I’m at DEMOfall and didn’t get to read this post until just now (barely still Pirate Talk Day here on the West Coast) and now I feel like a bad Dad because I forgot to talk to my eldest son like a pirate…

Kari Chisholm and Taegan Goddard both have pointed to a report in The Hill that credits John Kerry with a big advatnage because of his 3 million name email list.  Kerry’s 2004 Finance Chair boasts: “There is a zero marginal cost to communicate with them,” Randlett said of voters in Kerry’s database. “He can wait…

Today, I am becoming Chief Digital Officer of DCI Group, a Washington, DC public affairs firm.

InfoToday reports: Alacra, known for providing a wide range of business databases to enterprise customers, has decided to open up its content to on-demand purchasing by individual business professionals and consumers. The company has just launched the beta of its new Alacra Store, an e-commerce Web site that taps into 30 of Alacra’s premium content…