Everything was going nominally until Mr. LeFurgy said the following. The Internet is transforming marketing because as a multitasking medium it's able to combine a number of elements. You can do brand marketing, direct marketing, e-commerce or retail marketing, and you can do customer service. The ability to bring all these elements together lets us see we'll continue to see this robust growth scale over time, because we'll draw from lots of different budgets. Remember, ads and clicks aren't really economic goods.
Purchases are economic goods.
The Web enables direct purchases, and that's its power. The strike achieves the same end - without the risk of media backlash. Clueless , this week, is the Dallas Morning News , which killed several discussion forums that degenerated into flame wars. Moderation must deal with flamers, and failure to moderate properly can leave anyone with egg on their face. Any Dallas entrepreneur now has a real opportunity to take the newspaper on and defeat it in the marketplace.