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by pstack 15y ago
Fair enough. I concede that my statement was rather facetious. I assert that the naming of the same business model with the same type of content in the same market through the same distribution method is possibly brand deluding, definitely
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Do you really think that the average person browsing iTunes realizes that there is a difference between the TWIT brand and all of the "This Week In . . ." stuff? Largely, they don't. I've spoken with people that didn't realize they were unr
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by pstack 15y ago
That's one of the big points of contention, for me. If I am purchasing a digital copy of your content, then I am essentially purchasing nothing but a license to use that content and it should therefore be your job to ensure I can continue t
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by pstack 15y ago
Also, you don't have to worry about your pages becoming dog-eared. Or getting finger-grease or smudges on them. Or spines being worn or bent. If you grew up a book nerd, just thinking about these things happening to a physical book can ma
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by pstack 15y ago
When you can get more movies and television than you could ever consume for only $8/mo and ten million songs for only $5/mo, it's hard to argue. I mean, would you rather pay $30 for a Bluray that you'll watch once (twice, to be generous) or
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by pstack 15y ago
Feel better about yourself, now? Do you seriously think that your local utility is going to have massive solar fields that are going to provide the kind of power demands they have or even a chunk of it? The only long-term option is for exis
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by pstack 15y ago
I'm a fan of the idea of solar panels, but I'm skeptical. First, I'd like to see numbers that show solar panels are less damaging to the environment. I suspect that they require significant energy to manufacture as well as cause pollution i
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My friend used the "I'm doing this for a living, so pay me" model, which has worked out very well for him. He was a radio talk show broadcaster and after one more format change (after CBS sold off stations to Alpha Broadcasting) and decided
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by pstack 15y ago
I wonder how many of those people thought they were donating to Leo Laporte, due to the sleazy use of the "This Week In . . . " branding for a similar network doing similar content in a similar medium.
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The realization itself came to me when I was listening to Carl Sagan read from Pale Blue Dot . For an unseemingly long minute, it took the breath out of my body and when I finally drew it in again, the near obsessive voraciousness with whi
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by pstack 15y ago
That episode always haunts me and it raised some other thoughts. If you were the last person on the planet, would you still read and listen to music? I mean, without being a member of a species and a society that contextualizes you, does mu
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I spent most of my life being concerned with leaving some sort of immortalizing legacy behind. Some great work or impact on the world that would never be forgotten. Then I came to the conclusion that I'm a tiny life on a tiny planet in the
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by pstack 15y ago
I'm not much for repeating content. That's why I don't like to buy DVDs or build a collection of things. Music is an exception, but as far as film and books -- I have zero interest in experiencing the exact same content repeatedly. I could
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I can't recall the last thing that made me giggle as much as realizing what they were doing. I can't see any time I'd really use this, but the audacity is inspiring.
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In my experience, there are very few people that fall between the two. They are either the examples I provided above or they are, like myself, silent until they have something to provide that is of a real contribution and not just "I have a
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I understand that isn't the case, but they obviously want as much attention for each update as possible or else they wouldn't bother and regardless of their expectations, it's still more stuff that every other person has to sift through.
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by pstack 15y ago
So, this is less of an observation and discussion about the perception that technology has to have a certain set of trendy doodads (for instance, it seems every startup has to deal with mobile or social networking or else it's insta-fail)
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by pstack 15y ago
Agreed. I haven't been in the market for a job in a very long time, but the quickest way to lose my interest in your position is to tell me I can't work from home. After almost fifteen years, I can think of no other way. (Especially in my c
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by pstack 15y ago
The thing is, the signal on a social network like Facebook is not strong enough to overcome the noise and it would require that I spend precious time parsing through a significant amount of that noise just to reach the few rare bits of sign
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I've been working from home for a dozen years and I love it. The past six years have been spent working at night (I'm a night-owl, anyway). I love it. The faux socialization (and interruptions, conflicts, inanity, politics, etc) are too oft
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by pstack 15y ago
If I have any social networking anxiety, it's not about friend count. It's anxiety over wasting my life catering to wannabe web personalities trying to build a following via attention-whoring or wasting precious moments of my life scrolling
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by pstack 15y ago
An actual book written to be sold at a dollar isn't expected to be much. In fact, I would assume any book written for that price point is probably one of those scammy "Send me $20 for a PDF all about being a video game wizard!" website ty
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by pstack 15y ago
Might be a good cause, but they're all very stupid commercials that do a poor job at getting to (any) point. Also, are we to expect that these are really going to reach the appropriate audience and have any sort of impact? I mean, here I wa
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by pstack 15y ago
I like utalu. I suppose you could pronounce it either OO-TALL-OO or YOO-TUH-LOOH or OO-TUH-LOO (which I prefer, because it rolls off the tongue better and sounds really playful).
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It will when you criminalize it and equate it in the public's mind with "putting Hustler magazine on the shelves of your local library's children's section".
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I find it amusing that sexual content is so horrific that it must be categorized and filtered. I don't see a TLD intended to 'classify-out' all of the violent racist hate websites. It's a matter of time before corrupt MPAA style bureaucraci
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I mean no slight on your service whatsoever. My commentary was more with regard go what has become a truism of modern society. That being that you can't go wrong appealing to someone's ego. Whether that means helping them pimp their compan
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by pstack 15y ago
More evidence that it's hard to fail when your business plan is built around catering to attention-whores and spammers. It's sort of the "invest in staple vices like beer, no matter what the economic climate" of the modern age.
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I haven't setup payment processing since around 2002 or 2003, but it sounds like things have improved considerably. Back then, around the only option was Paypal. To get that to work (in any sort of automated fashion), you had to utilize the
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Relative Scoring In that case, you might as well just have numbers, since you can correlate numbers with colors, at that point. I would rather see colors indicating the "heat" of a comment. That is, its numbers, in relation to other numbe

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