Great post in the excellent This Blog Sits at the Intersection of Anthropology and Economics discusses HP’s new branding, and what PC’s could be:
[S]oon the word “revolution” got dropped from “personal computer revolution.” “Personal” vanished from “personal computer.” And both words disappeared into “PC.”…Still, there is hardly anything you own that is [...]
Monthly Archives: June 2006
HP’s marketing and HP’s reality
06-Jun-06misc.
06-Jun-06Blizzard: Yay! No one hangs around! None of that pesky ‘community’. :) Seriously, it does seem a little weird to only talk to other people when there is a URL involved.
Dave: I’m not skeptical of Sun because they are a big company, but rather because they frequently choose licenses that privilege them over other partners [...]
resigning from the board
01-Jun-06When running for the board last fall, I mentioned to foundation-list that there was a strong chance I’d be a less involved/engaged member the last two months of my term, assuming I was successful in going back to school. That was, it turns out, a bad miscalculation on my part. It turns out I’ll actually [...]