What I am reading today
- The end of brands? [Put this on]
- Twilight of the brands [James Surowiecki]
- Apple’s (mis) adventures in plastic. [Ken Segall]
- Why can’t Amazon and Apple catch a break on Madison Avenue. [Ad Age]
- We don’t sell saddles here. [Stewart Butterfield]
- Rethinking offshoring. [Harry Moser]
- One-Percent Jokes and Plutocrats in Drag: What I Saw When I Crashed a Wall Street Secret Society. [Kevin Roose]
- Life on automatic: Facebook’s archival subject. [Liam Mitchell]
- Tencent backer Naspers is seeing its stock go-boom. [Techcentral]
- Revolving door, White House ties will greatly ease Comcast deal. [Karl Bode]