to go back to re-read The Web is like Canada though, which was kind of bugging me all weekend. And I agree with Aaron and Cameron that the article is a) a little trite in saying the web is “like Canada” and, b) it is a little muddled. It was one of those articles that I enjoyed on first reading but stuck with me as somehow incomplete, unfinished, unfocused. I think Ed put it best, referring to the judgement one must make about management in the web business (I paraphrase): “would they just as soon be selling potatoes, if there were money in it?” I know in my case, they wouldn’t, and hence even older non-technical people have a perfectly appropriate and interesting business plan with the web at its heart. For others – not so much. But I’ve spoken to a ton of “real web people” who don’t have the first clue either, at least in a commercial sense.
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