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by mpclark 13y ago
That's just free riding, though. If everyone gives up news, this approach will no longer work.
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by mpclark 14y ago
Top coders have had agents since at least the late 80s - an outfit called Marjaq, iirc, represented a stable of exceptional programmers in London.
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by mpclark 14y ago
What's the tool you used to get the backlink profile?
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by mpclark 14y ago
Odd factoid: I wrote the manual for the Game Genie
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by mpclark 14y ago
Agree on freelancing and consulting. OP, you've got a (fairly) unique qualification you can trade on -- not many folks have been through what you have. That's got to be a valuable asset. I'd encourage you to go out there and wave it around
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by mpclark 14y ago
Well, speaking as a publisher, I would also want to confirm this sort of thing with the company before disseminating it widely. Companies and livelihoods are at stake in situations like this.
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by mpclark 14y ago
Websites don't get to see your search terms at all if you're logged in to Google. I guess that makes it safer on one hand, and much more dangerous on the other.
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by mpclark 14y ago
Oh, I'm sorry. Please pass on my apology for the "poor dear" thing. I realise it is patronising and unnecessary.
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by mpclark 14y ago
If you loved the music, have a listen to The Eagles' "Journey of the Sorcerer"... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rOMGIbY-9s
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by mpclark 14y ago
I have a lovely babel fish graphic from this awaiting framing. The artist, Rod Lord, was selling the original artwork on eBay a few years ago. Looks like you can still buy prints: http://www.rodlord.com/H2G2PRINTS/PAGES/prints1.htm
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by mpclark 14y ago
I like what you did there - I clicked on the link to read the doc and then slowly realised that my IP now falls within the scope of the requested information.
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by mpclark 14y ago
I got down to the bit where the author tries to make it personal, then gave up. It's not about being personal or publishing private emails; it's about a respected publication approaching an established writer and asking for free product to
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by mpclark 14y ago
I feel like I spend my life saying this: "Hang on, don't worry, it's coming." NFC is taking time because there are so many stakeholders, there is hardware involved, and the value chain is not straightforward. That said, Sony is going big on
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by mpclark 14y ago
Could it be because 2/3rds of their employees work in the retail channel?
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by mpclark 14y ago
Excellent point about consumers attributing value to things they can hold in their hands. The same is true of written content; in my experience information on paper is a lot easier to sell than the same information hosted on a website. The
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by mpclark 14y ago
I've never heard of it or seen it anywhere here in the UK, but a quick sidetrip to Amazon has just fixed that. As a hot sauce fan, I'm looking forward to trying it -- though I have slight reservations about the sugar content.
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by mpclark 14y ago
It's The Register's friendly name for Google, and comes from -- I think -- Willy Wonka's chocolate factory, an impenetrable monolith where nothing was what it seemed and anything could happen.
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by mpclark 14y ago
There seems to be a lot more useful explaining going on here compared to the bland platitudes I'm used to reading from Microsoft.
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by mpclark 14y ago
Well, if another revenue stream was, say, high-ticket industry research or conferences, then a site operating in that arena would suddenly find that it needs to be very credible and maintain a reputation for accuracy and professional report
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by mpclark 14y ago
If he'd left it a while longer before fessing up (say until the US started waking up) he'd have got a lot more on that list.
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by mpclark 14y ago
You get what you pay for. When a site's only revenue source is ads paying a couple of bucks per thousand impressions, this is the inevitable result.
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by mpclark 14y ago
Meanwhile, here's another 'iPads in the classroom' story from last week, focussing on how fast the kids destroy them: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2255546/School-spent...
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by mpclark 14y ago
It's our age, I'm afraid. I'm a foot'n'inch-using brit too, but my early teenage kids only deal in metric units (except for miles)
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by mpclark 14y ago
Me too. But wouldn't it be nearly impossible to sell? I can imagine anyone with the slightest anti-Google sentiment howling "shakedown!" and "protection racket!"
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by mpclark 14y ago
Yes, it's funny. Back in the mid-90s there was much talk of Microsoft's strategy for pretty much any product being to get everybody into a room, then close the doors and pump the air out of it. Sounds like that's what's happening here too.
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by mpclark 14y ago
This is why I'll never cross the street. You could get run over. Instead I've built my own shopping mall in the back yard, to keep everything local.
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by mpclark 14y ago
A red herring, I feel. If tax had been paid properly as you suggest then they could hold it in jurisdictions where it was generated, such as the UK. Instead it is moved to places like Bermuda through byzantine schemes to minimise the amount
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by mpclark 14y ago
Anecdotal I know, but I have a chum - a big, big Apple fan - who has so far refused to upgrade to iOS 6 because of the maps issues. He also expected to buy the iPhone 5, but when it arrived it just didn't seem worth it. He's even given my
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by mpclark 14y ago
Fiddle-dee-tax!
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by mpclark 14y ago
Clicked in case this article is about me...

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