” ‘Buy American’ and ‘Long Tail’ are just so last year; marketers are all about good old-fashioned customer satisfaction and retention.”

Advertising Age story on Seth Godin being picked as the top business guru, over Steve Jobs and Malcolm Gladwell.

“GoDaddy will go ahead with Super Bowl ad.”

Article in Arizona Republic stating that the domain name registrar will once again air a risque ad during the Super Bowl, a tactic it has done for two years now.

“Inventing a way to charge people for free stuff? Now that’s what I call a technological breakthrough.”

Technology reviewer Brian Collins, writing in The Sunday Times, UK, about Amazon’s e-book reader, Kindle, that charges users $14.99 a month to read newspapers, and 0.99 cents a month to read blogs on the device.

“The chilling effect on expensive e-commerce would frost keyboards across America.”

Stephen Crocker, Federal magistrate, in a June ruling against the subpoena for Amazon.com records on a mail and wire fraud case. Reported this week on CNN.com. The court docs were unsealed last week.

“Journalists and PR people have to hold each other responsible.”

Barry Kluger, former VP of Communications for Prodigy Inc. and senior exec at MTV, at a lecture at Arizona State University.