Phil Butler Unplugged

The discussion over “who owns what?”, and particularly content on the Web will become more and more intense in the months to come. Some of the major news outlets have already begun their campaigns to monetize or at least limit who uses their content. The days where a trackback or just traffic pays for the [...]

The first couple of months I spent here in Germany fairly dashed some of my perceptions of both the people and the essence of the place. I expect this is true for most visitors, and certainly my "American" sense of old world charm was slightly skewed by not so much disinformation as being [...]

Delving into the mysteries of the Web for the 10,000th time, I decided to go all out transparent and also help a friend today. You see, all bloggers and social networking fools use essentially the same strategies to get what they write notices. Whether the subject is super informative news or simply some refined spam, [...]

Every day I deal with the hard charging world of Internet blogging, consulting and PR - and this is good. Today I learned of the demise of a great friend, and I cannot write about startups or Internet news and leave a sad story untold. So, for now my friends, clients and business associates, forgive [...]

I was tagged today by Maryanna from over in Hooterville, well not the real Hooterville but the digital correspondent if there is one. The objective of this meme “Who is part of my life?” is to promote the idea of how we can touch one another in small and great ways I suppose, and I [...]