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Man Bites Dog, and Publishing saves Twitter

In the spirit of keeping things a little livelier on this blog, as my alleged essay-writing evolves, I’m following up on yesterday’s posting of the BEA video with a posting of this morning’s conversation with GalleyCat’s Jason Boog, and AgencySpy’s editor Matt Van Hoven. I could enumerate the topics we covered, but everything really just comes down to price. Pricing, I suspect, is a proxy, or a vehicle we use to be able to have at least the semblance of a conversation about what we need to be doing…

Richard Eoin Nash, Jul 10, 2009

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For me the buy-deision is a combination of format and price; always has been. If the ting won’t fit into my hands well, I won’t buy it; if the thing is too expensive (in my necessarily careful view) I won’t buy it; sleek, seductive, elegant as it might be, I will go away and sigh when I remember it if I can’t afford it. But I won’t buy it.

In this as in many other things I am a notoriously hard sell. But I thought I should mention the format-deal-breaker thingy, for that proportion of the public that might resemble me.

– MF (07/18 05:27 PM)

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