Wine & Technology Event

After my Web 2.0 panel on Thursday, my crew is heading over to the Wine 2.0 party at Webster Hall for a fun evening of wine and technology networking. Wine 2.0 New York will…

feature over 1,000 friends from the wine, technology and venture capital community tasting over 100 wineries best wines.

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How To Survive Advertising Week

The following also is my latest column in MediaPost.

How To Survive Advertising Week

If you work in marketing, media or advertising, you can’t escape Advertising Week! The glut of festivities – taking place this year from Sept. 22 to 26 – bills itself as “North America’s largest and most prestigious gathering of industry decision-makers.”… Read the rest

Remembering 9/11 And Pondering A New President’s Impact

I wrote the following two years ago, and not a lot has changed.

Remembering 9/11

It’s eerie – today, September 11, 2006, is a cool, crisp morning, signaling that fall is on its way. I’m sitting upstairs at the bay window of our Brooklyn Coop, right where I was five years ago at 8:46 AM, when the Bloomberg radio program I was listening to went static.

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What Would You Ask The People Trying To Disrupt The Advertising Business With Automation?

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(Terminator 2 Endoskeleton Arm — Source: Wikipedia)

As I’ve noted previously, I’ll be moderating a debate at O’Reilly’s Web 2.0 NYC conference on advertising automation and the fate of human, manual labor in the overall advertising ecosystem.… Read the rest