Author: Jack Lail

  • Good news for a good idea

    Scott Karp’s Publish2 has raised $2.75 million in Series A funding from Velocity Interactive Group. Congratulations! Read the news. I’ve been experimenting in one area of Publish2 and Karp’s vision of the future, link journalism. I had been dabbling in extensive outside linking as “the content” rather than “supplemental content” before I ran into Karp’s…

  • What I’m sharing

    Don’t forget to see my shared Google Reader items. Add it your reader (a Read the Shared Reader thing).

  • That New Coke moment

    Companies often have the uncanny ability to do precisely the wrong thing at the exact right time. Business history is a virtual junkyard of Edsels, New Cokes, Bic pantyhose. Decisions months or years later reveal themselves as the turning point to a failed strategy or tactic. How is it that bright, highly successful business people…