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Brian O'Kelley
Personal blog · bokonads.combusinessdata
Brian O'Kelley writes BOK & Anne on Ads, a personal blog at bokonads.com about business and data. Since 2017, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “Data is Fallout, not Oil”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-08, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked as an alternate view to the 'data is oil' idea, via a post arguing that data is fallout, not oil. The comment does not say anything about the writing itself.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Exploring the future and present of advertising.
Most-linked posts?
- Data is Fallout, not Oil2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-02-26
What Hacker News says?
For an alternate view to the "data is oil" theme, see http://bokonads.com/data-is-fallout-not-oil/
Comment linking /data-is-fallout-not-oil/
on “Opening a new chapter of my work in AI”Submitted The ad tech renaissance as a story · 114 points
HN discussionSubmitted Data is Fallout, not Oil as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Sponsored Intelligence and the Trillion Dollar Sentence as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Medical Targeting Should Be Illegal as a story · 1 points
HN discussion