Content, conduit, contrarian

The creator of Million-Dollar Homepage cashed out, and did nothing for five years.

I have waited for the other shoe to drop. It just did. Do Nothing for 2 Minutes.

http://www.donothingfor2minutes.com/

The high school graduate does put his thinking cap on every so often, and knows how to create buzz.

He either sells ad dots (as opposed to ad banners), or do nothing.

Still he needs to reach us, this time, via Comcast or Time Warner (conduit).

The pipe owners just lay cable while others hold the Master Switch i.e. providing content as well. So they risked everything, first through a disastrous merger with AOL, and of late, with NBC (I like the forced PSA on Missing Child Report.)

So, the current $99 (or less) Triple Play promotion (envisioned a decade ago after the Telecommunications Act of 1996) locks in a healthy base.

On the Web front, we have barely scratched the surface. Google has another round of reorg (deemed Google 3.0) while continues on its long journey of “organizing the world’s information” and “not being evil”. It has recruited enough staff for Google Adsense in Vietnam.

Young entrepreneurs think  contrarian. CEO’s of tech companies addressed the troop wearing wireless mic, free to move about or on skateboard. The internet charged out of the gate at such a furious rate that it’s still a guessing game for many. Eventually, stake holders will influence the outcome (as well as market’s force). We will perhaps have an oligarchical web world.

For now, we suspend our disbelief.  Art is imitating life in the Social Network.

If I were Alex, my next web page would be a million faces (dead or alive) all in dots. Or Do Nothing for 3 minutes (add one minute of silence for victims of recent wars). But then, Maya Lin already beat me to the punch. Hers is called the Vietnam Memorial Wall.