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About Jaffer Ali

About Jaffer Ali and Vidsense
Jaffer Ali is CEO of Vidsense, the Web's largest video advertising network. With more than 80,000 advertiser-friendly video clips licensed from major film and TV studios, the Vidsense network of more than 20,000 safe-for-work... more

The More Things Change… - Jaffer Ali
By Jaffer Ali

You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple.
--Steve Jobs

Simplify…simplify….simplify.
--Henry David Thoreau

I read an interesting blog post ... more

DOJ Asks Court to Keep GOOGLE-NSA Partnership Secret - Jaffer Ali
By Jaffer Ali

"Everything secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and publicity." -- Lord Acton

I waited a week before I decided to write about today's topic. The idea that I read as many online industry trade publications as I do and have not read a single... more

The Decline of the MSM - Jaffer Ali
By Jaffer Ali

We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of. -Edward Bernays

My last essay on the fourth estate garnered more feedback than I have had in a long time. People sent ... more

Our Faustian Bargain – by Jaffer Ali
By Jaffer Ali

[A]ll technological change is a trade-off. I like to call it a Faustian bargain. Technology giveth and technology taketh away…Our unspoken slogan has been "technology über alles," and we have been willing to shape our lives to fit the requirements of technology, not the requirements of culture. This is a form of... more

Abandoning Fear - Jaffer Ali
By Jaffer Ali

We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life
by standing in awe of death.--David Sarnoff

Christopher Hitchens was not one of my favorite journalists/authors, as he moved from being an avid devotee of Trotsky to an outspoken neo-conservative warmonger. But I did read what he... more