On the virtues of ignoring market noise

Rob Sellar, head of North American equities for Aberdeen Asset Management, a big British investment house with a value bent, stopped by today and offered this bit of observation/investment advice: At the end of the day, the brokerage community is all about generating noise, because that generates turnover. A little later he said: I hate [...]

Some content wants to be free. Some doesn’t, but we’ll still use Google (or something like it) to find it

ZDNet blogger Donna Bogatin, who pays much closer attention to Google than I ever will, raked my Google vs. Big Media column over the coals last week. At least, I think that what she was doing–her post spends a lot of its time countering arguments that I never really made, but perhaps are espoused by [...]