Nick Bergus » snowmen http://nbergus.com Thoughts on what media do, and can do better, and other things Fri, 27 Jan 2012 18:07:55 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Metaphors: Selling snowmen http://nbergus.com/2009/09/metaphors-selling-snowmen/ http://nbergus.com/2009/09/metaphors-selling-snowmen/#comments Thu, 03 Sep 2009 15:23:55 +0000 nbergus http://nbergus.com/?p=570 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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