Metaphors: Selling snowmen

Posted by Nick Bergus on September 3, 2009; This entry is filed under Online Media.
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Selling snowmen to Eskimos
Information Architects‘ “The Value of Information”

Information on the Internet is as common as snow in the arctic. You can’t expect Eskimos to buy a snowman.

Jay Rosen on Twitter

Journalist: hey, I made a snowman. Inuit: nice! Journalist: it took me all day. Inuit: what’s your point? Journalist: that’ll be five bucks.

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