nwzpaperman

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by nwzpaperman 13y ago
This statement has already been proven false. What it should read is:"people won't pay for tabloid news on the web. Print will be dead."
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by nwzpaperman 13y ago
Or maybe a news platform that passively ranked community-generated content geospatially. Already built and innovating on the core platform... :)
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by nwzpaperman 13y ago
Come now, certainly you don't believe that. Capital structure is an integral piece of corporate strategy as is board construction. Bezos has liquidated so much AMZN stock he doesn't need AMZN's balance sheet for a piddly $25
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by nwzpaperman 13y ago
It's $250mm for the WaPo brand. Empowering the ordinary citizen to contribute to the global pool of community information is the future. Blogging was the first attempt in this direction, but it has failed because the distributed natu
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by nwzpaperman 13y ago
What part of "privacy is dead" do people not understand? You think multi-core processors in your iPhone or android is to make the calls more clear? How many people here can say they haven't integrated a "smart" Ap
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by nwzpaperman 13y ago
People have the opportunity to write news, but the will to write news isn't there, yet. With ~9 months of open-beta under our belts and no interference or incentivizing content of any stripe, people just don't cover what's i
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by nwzpaperman 13y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HLN_(TV_channel) "HLN, formerly known as CNN Headline News (often abbreviated as HN) and CNN2, is a cable television news channel...Since 2005, however, its format has increasingly shifted to long-form tabloid
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by nwzpaperman 13y ago
Blind Busters
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by nwzpaperman 13y ago
You don't know what you're talking about. What were you doing in Africa for 30 years...drinking on beaches in Cape Town?? Here is why it is COMPLETELY stupid to put wifi blimps in Africa. LOL http://www.heritage.org/multimedia/infographi
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by nwzpaperman 13y ago
Assertion? Do explain your authority on Africa to me. As someone who has family in Africa, right now, and more going within a month, I am confident in my assertion that Africa is a failed continent. Everyone on earth has tried to civilize,
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by nwzpaperman 13y ago
Pretty sure google should deploy wifi blimps to south/north Dakota, Wyoming, Montana, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, Oklahoma, etc. before throwing resources at African wifi. I guess google plans to inherit Nigerian family fortunes and such
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by nwzpaperman 13y ago
Edmond Dantes
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by nwzpaperman 13y ago
Unemployment doesn't cover all of their living expenses? My first project manager at HP went into photography several years ago...and so did many of the other displaced workers during post-2008.
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by nwzpaperman 13y ago
Perhaps it's time to revisit what the definition of fiat is and how that contrasts with a cryptocurrency like bitcoin. Definition of FIAT http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fiat 1: a command or act of will that creates something wi
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by nwzpaperman 13y ago
He should send OMICS a box of chocolates and a thank you for the free publicity. It's good to be an American in America!
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by nwzpaperman 13y ago
It is a bigger problem than just votes, but votes do drive the initial policy formation and corresponding political discussion. What happens when you retire a light bulb? Contrast that with what happens when you retire a person. The light
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by nwzpaperman 13y ago
The paper money market is being closed down too.
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by nwzpaperman 13y ago
What's your daily ATM withdrawal limit? Familiar with the letters SAR? Mere suspicion of structuring requires a report. If you know any local people that work at a bank, ask he or she how many SARs are filed in the one branch per week, o
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by nwzpaperman 13y ago
Money laundering is about legitimizing the source of money and isn't facilitated by the unit of exchange: dollar, yen, rupee, peso or bitcoin. Post-2001 and the Patriot Act, bank tellers, stock brokers and insurance agents have all become l
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by nwzpaperman 13y ago
Bitcoin doesn't launder money, but does enable the barter economy to be more liquid and scalable. Barter is very difficult to tax, so there is the issue. I have personally discussed this with a friend that is a federal reserve spokesman, s
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by nwzpaperman 13y ago
Everyone missed Wachovia's dirty laundry story. HSBC is just a British bank, not Chinese, so we get to hear about their transgressions. Got Barclays?
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by nwzpaperman 13y ago
AOL has bet the future on Patch.com or at least that's how it looks with Armstrong riding nine figure losses and hanging on to the shiny sheriff's badge over there for another platform pivot! You should have an asterix next to "making a ton
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by nwzpaperman 13y ago
The days of people being lazy information consumers are long past. If something is important, it's incumbent upon you to pursue understanding of said something. Wikipedia has been a very useful platform, but it is no more secure in its fu
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by nwzpaperman 13y ago
Messaging is never neutral and I don't trust people that deny having a position on meaningful subjects. What's more important for news and journalism going forward is that writers are transparent about their perspective and let the reader
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by nwzpaperman 13y ago
"What does this have to do with anything?" It means building a site like instagram, with zero revenue, can be very profitable if it competes with a revenue-generating site like Facebook. It is also repeatable. Re: Lottery Ticket Survivorsh
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by nwzpaperman 13y ago
Nature and capitalism share a structural characteristic: both require equilibrium or over-production to self-sustain. Any sustained deficit and the organism or economic entity suffers catastrophic failure. It is absolutely possible to und
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by nwzpaperman 13y ago
Herbert Spencer: http://www.econlib.org/library/LFBooks/Spencer/spnMvS9.html "Yet that societies are not artificially put together, is a truth so manifest, that it seems wonderful men should ever have overlooked it. Perhaps nothing more c
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by nwzpaperman 13y ago
Government transparency is a distinct issue. What I was speaking to is the low barrier to opening a blog under a pseudonym, posting something and sharing it without any long-term disincentive to be accurate or truthful. Wikileaks is not the
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by nwzpaperman 13y ago
Rupert Murdoch dumped about $30 million into project Alesia and shut it down due to no scalable way to allocate/share revenues. Aka the cross-publisher deals couldn't be made. Music and video are different in that the monetary values are g
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by nwzpaperman 13y ago
The problem you are talking about isn't editor vs. no editor, it's accountability.

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