• Posted by Tim Jarrett
  • On October 14, 2005

  • Filed under Internet

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Consume, consume, consume

As I’ve mentioned before, I want a moratorium on the word consumer—both because it is disrespectful and because it builds bad thinking habits in companies that sell to “consumers.” Doc Searls’s experience with his local Internet providers today is a case in point:

The bottom line: I can replace my 3Mb/300Kb $49/month Cox home Internet account [...]