Information Week reports on the browser’s first year.

“When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years.”
—Mark Twain

Well, not the papers per se … the papers’ online extensions: BizReport reports that “more than 70 million unique visitors landed on newspaper websites in June 2009, that is nearly 36% of the total US online audience.”

It’s not often that Keith Olbermann singles out the creative team of an ad for his Worst Person In the World designation. Usually that’s an honor reserved for Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh or Fox News.

Last night, though, Olbermann rightly called out DDB Brazil for a public service ad that was in excruciating bad taste. The New York Daily News writes about it over here and the World Wildlife Fund, for whom the ad was created, strongly condemns the ad over here.

Takeaway for marketers: There are infinite ways to create buzz and generate attention, many of them flat-out wrong. If you’re asking yourself, “Do we really need to go there?” you probably don’t. Or shouldn’t.

That was quite the shocker yesterday: Disney swallows up Marvel for $4 billion and nobody much saw it coming.

Mark Evanier has some interesting observations about the deal over here, Daniel Indiviglio at The Atlantic writes about it over here and Cinematical and their readers have plenty to say about it over here.

I’m a lifelong Marvel fan. I worked with Disney for years when I was involved in managing Disney On Ice Web content. I get that it’s arguably a great deal for both companies.

Still, no matter how much I read about the deal, my Spidey-sense is tingling. I can’t shake the feeling that somehow the characters created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko and so many others will never quite be the same.