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quick thought... August 6th, 2006 - 11:28PM

The concept and transparency behind WashingtonWatch is brilliant, but the details still need to be worked on… big time. For example, apparently their algorithm believes that repealing the Estate Tax will save the average family $2025.70. Uhm, people, the average family will never deal with the Estate Tax, and if anything — after recalculating the burdens of a post-repealed “Death Tax” world — the average household would have to pick up the slack of these poor millionaires.

(via Techcrunch)

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March 2nd, 2006

Introducing: Citizen Advertising

Brought to you from that cutting-edge crew over at Current TV. You know, that little ol’ venture from Al Gore.

Big business is already squirming regarding citizen media; they’re going to have a heart attack if this experiment takes off. I don’t make predictions often, but the day it’s the norm for companies to dive into blogging as a means to communicate with their market, citizen advertizing will take off like wildfire.

The value proposition for large companies is too high to ignore hundreds, possibly thousands of passionate, creative consumers. Aside from the media buy component of a 50 million dollar campaign (in non-Current TV channels), the remainder of the creative and production costs could be replaced by a hundred $1,000 checks.

But forget huge corporations for a minute; imagine the value proposition for small businesses. The saturation of message and community will be beyond enticing; it’ll be intoxicating.

Man, the elites must really hate Web/Media 2.0 now.

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February 22nd, 2006