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Platformonomics TGIF #141: October 2, 2026
Platformonomics TGIF is a weekly roll-up of links, comments on those links, and perhaps a little too much tugging on my favorite threads. Get Platformonomics Updates By Email I’ve been pacing my output here (for the good of humanity naturally), but am now back in the saddle. Consider yourselves warned. My Writing BREAKING: Meta Announces…
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A Noble Cause
Addressing the dinosaur divide: Most of the nearly two billion children in the developing world have inadequate access to dinosaurs. Some receive no paleontology training at all. One in three has never even seen a dinosaur in person. UPDATE: I am a little embarrassed by this post. First, the title should have been just “Closing…
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Calling the Election
Forget about the politicians, the biggest loser on November 5th will be old media. The Olympics are over. The election will be over (and evidently $2.5 billion in political advertising this year wasn’t enough to stop a decline in overall media advertising through August). Old media is already in steep decline and this recession is…
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My Vote
Goes to any politician who removes the Do Not Call Registry’s self-serving exemption for political organizations. Do they really believe that people who registered for this wildly popular program (over 157 million phone numbers registered) still want to receive robo-calls? The phone has been ringing all weekend.
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Feedburner Under Google: “Dreck”
Another ding for Google’s acquisition track record: I used to see a decent amount of ad dollar revenue via Feedburner… Then Google took them over, and its been a total clusterf*&k ever since… Utterly embarrassingly dreck. How worthless it is? The revenue dropped about 90%. Gee, why aren’t you folks reading TBP clicking on payday…
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Negative Intrinsic Value?
Ouch. This is not a stable situation. JAVA: 4.62 -0.15 (-3.14%) – Sun Microsystems, Inc. Behold: Sun, if it still has $3.5B cash, is now a negative-net-worth company (at $4.62/share, mkt cap = $3.43B). Low price for today so far was $4.51. Peter O’Kelly’s Reality Check