Ben Regenspan's Social Capital Blog

Suckling on the teat of Big Gas

SoCapBen — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 15:50:45 EDT

"You'se a fine motherFERCer / won't you back that gas up / call me big daddy when you back that gas up / hoe, who is you playing with, back that gas up / ...You got to steal, Big Gas, yeah."

-Juvenile

Throwing in the towel

SoCapBen — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 23:01:28 EDT

It's always easy to make excuses, so I'll go right ahead. I registered for an event, accompanied by free dinner, at Heritage tonight, but just couldn't sneak out of our awesome film festival. Returning home after that to come up with an amazing, on-the-spot scheme would seemingly be a realistic plan -- if my house didn't get the Food Network and someone weren't always watching it.

The question on everyone's mind

SoCapBen — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 14:39:58 EDT

...was thankfully addressed today by the AEI-Brookings Joint Center for Regulatory Studies when it convened a panel on "The Economics of Internet Advertising: Implications for the Google-DoubleClick Merger." I attended that panel, and this is my story.