If you are a student of the empirical science of value – Satyajit Das clearly and coherently breaks down risk, money, and the financialization of global capitalism.
More from Satyajit Das discussing his previous project Traders Guns & Money: knowns and Unknowns in the World of Derivatives at Planet Money. While you are there, check out all the Planet Money Deep Reads Podcasts.
Sir James Goldsmith the basis for Oliver Stone’s Sir Laurence Wildman character in Wallstreet breaks down value, wages, economy, trade imbalance, and globalization. Almost 20 years ago and before his death in 1997 Goldsmith explains where America’s (and the worlds) political economy was taking us.
Adam Curtis’ Blog on BBC is almost worth the £145.50 UK TV License Tax (paid to BBC). Although it’s not broadcasted live so I am still not paying.
It Felt Like a Kiss is treatise on American Power – now available outside the UK through an Archive.org stream.
Who knew how much time and effort went into those scammer emails full story from Motherboard here….
Exchanges, Behavioral Targeting, RTB, SSP, DSP’s, Dynamic Creative, Ad Verification, Attribution – sometimes I can’t help to think we’ve got it all wrong. Instead of making peoples lives better; online advertising is at best Meta-Advertising. It seams like we spend most our time selling advertising not actually disseminating great ideas / products.
Meta-advertising is at best repeating the same message over and over; at worst personally customized brand messaging based on 400 data points. Technology means nothing without creativity; technology has become our ultimate distraction.
Add Art & Copy to your Netflix Queue.
Hal Riney put out some of the most emotionally compelling advertising that has ever been seen. Like or hate the message the ads are art; they connect and resonate.
From “When the Audience Clicks: Buying Attention in the Digital Age” presented at the Oxford Internet Institute.
Check out 68:28 for a lively discussion on my favorite behavioral targeting topic – coffee cup capitalism.
