Ike Pigott

"Rich, I will say it again. We are midway through a 20-25 year Dark Age for Journalism. The editors have been overthrown - there is no one left to tell the kids to eat their vegetables, and to have a balanced news diet. What it will take is a series of personal embarrassments so severe that individuals will decide they need to be more objective. Those who self-select Fox or MSNBC or Politico or Buzzfeed or whatever have to suffer grievous injury, either to reputation or to their pocketbook. Only then will they assume the mantle of Curator of Me more seriously. And that will take a long time." - Ike Pigott

"Agreed. But this is still damned funny. http://youtu.be/afUPJOg7uRk" - Ike Pigott

"Outstanding, sir. Shout it to the world!" - Ike Pigott

"You don't have to fool everybody, just most people who believe what the teevee says." - Ike Pigott

"I think you guys are all missing Bob's broader point. - Be more cognizant of the messages you send as advertisers... there may be collateral effects. - Be more cognizant of the messages you receive as audience... and see the dangerous wedges for the influence they might wield. - Be more thoughtful. Wedges are great for activating in-groups, but can be destructive when it demonizes the out-groups. And the best advertising is truly inclusive and speaks to the entirety of human condition. Unless, you know, Bob thinks I am full of crap." - Ike Pigott

"My brother makes $1,2332.2 dollars every week, without leaving the house. I never new it was so easy to make money on the internet with makemoneyontheinternets,com." - Ike Pigott

"Now let me expand the rant a little bit further. My primary email address to the world is ike AT pigott DOT name. It has been for years, and I was fortunate to snag the domain so I can keep it for life. However, this has created an issue, with regard to spam. It seems that my email address is perfectly valid for RECEIVING email from anyone. However, when I click to UNSUBSCRIBE from the list, I get a notice that tells me that my email address isn't in a valid format. Seriously. The companies that provide the opt-out automation will not allow me to unsubscribe. Ever. And they have yet to answer my emails about it." - Ike Pigott

"ITM, Scott. And thank you for your courage." - Ike Pigott

"But there will be no 40-hour per week minimum wage jobs. They will all stay under 25 to avoid full time status and benefits." - Ike Pigott

"The sham here is two-fold: 1) when ISPs are forbidden from shaping traffic, the only way to keep the network running smoothly is investing in more routers and switches. This should be called the Cisco Enrichment Act of 2015. 2) every page is covered with references to "lawful traffic." If ever there were an invitation for snooping, this is it. The ISPs will be forced to examine packets in order to comply. No VPN. No peer-to-peer. None of that underground encrypted stuff that will make the NSA break a sweat. Enjoy your streaming Netflix. I hear Brave New World is playing. Sign up for the Soma package." - Ike Pigott

"Scott, are they *really* damaging the entire marketing industry? Or are they doing us a favor by using parody to shame the lazy who are jumping on every tactical brandwagon? (It might be a stretch to think of a pizza roll as a modern-day Amanda Chapel, without the stock photo avatar and malignant misogyny.)" - Ike Pigott

"This is a pivot for differentiation. The tweets are intentionally lame, and are meant to preemptively sink the very RTM crap none of us liked anyway. The SNL parody ad placement was genius, priming the pump. All Pete Zarroll has done is show up at the celebrity roast in a Norm MacDonald suit." - Ike Pigott

"You left out 11: Any list that breaks its format for the sake of seeming hip, trendy, cool or spontaneous." - Ike Pigott

"What makes matters harder for you is the demise of Google Reader. Now, the only real standard for Subscription is email, and you're competing in a crowded inbox with messages that were optimized for email to begin with. (Do you think the killing of Reader, in hindsight, was a way to minimize the importance of blogging because Blogger was losing dominance to Wordpress?)" - Ike Pigott

"Silence, Citizen. Your publication of this unverified anecdote could erode public confidence in the proud patriots and heroes that protect us daily from ISIS and foreign threats, and domestic ones. That you would irresponsibly promulgate this story calls into question your love of this country. I'll bet you don't even say "Under God" when you recite the pledge." - Ike Pigott

"First of all, incomes aren't shrinking. Secondly, Governments have always been unable to provide solutions. Most solutions emerge from markets where people are free to find opportunities to serve others. Third, the breakthroughs related to technology aren't new. And they don't "force" people to take action and help each other -- they ENABLE it." - Ike Pigott

"Okay, the fact that those were among the ones Peter highlighted doesn't mean there weren't any men. Justin Verlander was among those. To be honest, I haven't seen the whole list. I would bet that most of the victims were women -- and also that there were more men on there than you think. A sexist and attention-starved media knows that headlines with the actresses' names will generate more clicks and traffic. There may be several levels of sexism here." - Ike Pigott