A Buzz allegory, with spam
- 16th Feb, 2010 at 6:34 PM
In this analogy, you are the hog...
I don't grant the conclusion but the premise of this little story is excellent; for a free online service, users are not customers - they're ingredients for the business model
The hogosphere reacts to Buzzsaw
EDIT
thanks to ackicif for extracting the URL - I have no idea why the lj web interface borked the link because I didn't write the HTML by hand!
I don't grant the conclusion but the premise of this little story is excellent; for a free online service, users are not customers - they're ingredients for the business model
The hogosphere reacts to Buzzsaw
EDIT
thanks to ackicif for extracting the URL - I have no idea why the lj web interface borked the link because I didn't write the HTML by hand!
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