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• On the post: It's An Olympics Tradition: How Difficult Can NBC Universal Make It To Enjoy The Olympics?

  

  Ian Channing ( profile ), 30 Jul, 2012 @ 05:22pm

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  Whoops missed your comment somehow - think I wasn't viewing chronologically or summit like that. Anyway @Robert needs a UK VPN we're all agreed.

• On the post: It's An Olympics Tradition: How Difficult Can NBC Universal Make It To Enjoy The Olympics?

  

  Ian Channing ( profile ), 30 Jul, 2012 @ 05:18pm

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  @Robert You can just 'transport' yourself to the UK in a similar way as 'transporting' to Canada in the story. VPNUK will do the trick for you at about a fiver a month. Then you get all the BBC live feeds

• On the post: How Not To Make Music Social: The Way Spotify And Facebook Did It

  

  Ian Channing ( profile ), 27 Sep, 2011 @ 05:53am

  Time for diaspora folks

  Spotify is not the problem, they just got caught in the headlights of the Facebook juggernaught.
  
  I'm surprised we've got this far down and no-one's mentioned Diaspora: http://joindiaspora.com
  
  Its the alternative private-friendly version of Facebook. Even Mark Zuckerbergs's on it. However it needs volumes of people to get others to switch.
  
  I think you can give out infinite invites now - if anyone wants an invite you can contact me via my website http://www.ianchanning.com/contact/.

• On the post: Some Discussion Around Children And Tablet Computing

  

  Ian Channing ( profile ), 06 Apr, 2011 @ 01:41am

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  From comment 1: "Plus, getting back to the discussion on video games, with all the talk about how supposedly violent video games "... quite true there's an excellent visualization of this on the information is beautiful site. It compares the number of deaths to the number of news paper stories about it. Try comparing deadly video games (deaths 0) to deadly killer bees (deaths 11,000).

• On the post: Marcus Carab's Favorite Techdirt Posts Of The Week

  

  Ian Channing ( profile ), 09 Jan, 2011 @ 02:58am

  An excellent addition to some fascinating articles

  Both the link to the Trolley problem (assuming no hesitation I'd kill the one) and the quote from James Michener's next-in-line author were excellent additions to the articles. So thanks Marcus.

• On the post: Activision Comes To Its Senses; Allows King's Quest Fan Game To Live On (Again)

  

  Ian Channing ( profile ), 29 Jun, 2010 @ 06:44am

  Re: Re: Correlation w/Music...

  Very true, now I think back, the more I bought the more I copied other stuff as well. I've no idea which way round the correlation goes, but I do think that there is a genuine correlation.

• On the post: Copying Is Not Theft

  

  Ian Channing ( profile ), 16 Apr, 2010 @ 02:30am

  Re: Re: Re: Sorry...

  Nice point on the statistics.

• On the post: Careful What You Wish For: Greater IP Enforcement In China Being Used Against Foreign Companies…

  

  Ian Channing ( profile ), 12 Apr, 2010 @ 03:57am

  Re: Re: Calling for better arguments against Patents

  That makes sense. Thanks for the clarification.

• On the post: Careful What You Wish For: Greater IP Enforcement In China Being Used Against Foreign Companies…

  

  Ian Channing ( profile ), 09 Apr, 2010 @ 02:51am

  Calling for better arguments against Patents

  I agree with the article, but not the last paragraph. In the last paragraph it's stated - "patent and trademark protections tend to follow a period of great innovation" then "In other words, it acts in the exact opposite manner as it's supposed to."
  
  The first statement is blindingly obvious. The innovations allow the inventors to apply for patents. This then doesn't actually imply the second statement.
  
  What would be useful to see was that innovation drops after a large swathe of patents.
  
  I know patents are abused, but the arguments put in the last paragraph are pretty poor.

• On the post: Woman Spends $17,000 Of Her Own Money To Stop SEO From Being Trademarked

  

  Ian Channing ( profile ), 26 Mar, 2010 @ 02:29am

  She saved us from a proper loon

  Have a look at the front page of the nut job that tried to Trademark this: jasongambert.com
  
  If he changes it in the future - it currently is a picture of a bleeding Jesus Christ on the cross with this quote:
  
  John 15:18 "If the world hates you, keep in mind that it hated me first. If you belonged to the world, it would love you as its own. As it is, you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world. That is why the world hates you."
  
  Full congratulations to Rhea Drysdale for stopping it.

• On the post: Activision Kills Fan Game Project, Despite Fan License Granted By Previous Rightsholders

  

  Ian Channing ( profile ), 02 Mar, 2010 @ 05:03am

  No more comments

  So it seems either that Activision are terrible at writing comment forms (their website is a terrible flash mess to start with), or they've stopped people from sending comments. After checking on both Firefox and IE their comment form (http://www.activision.com/index.html#contact|en_GB) only has one 'To' address - Customer Support and selecting this takes you to their random support pages.
  
  Do let me know if you find another way to let them know how super great I think they are.

• On the post: Sarcasm Wars: Proprietary SarcMark Gets Some Sarcastic Open Competition

  

  Ian Channing ( profile ), 18 Feb, 2010 @ 07:12am

  Absolutely love it

  A perfect example of a much better, simpler solution existing, usually for free. Good stuff to the open sarcasm folks. Now if only they had a t-shirt with just their logo on it, I'd buy it.

• On the post: After Three Months, Newsday's Grand Paywall Experiment Has 35 Paying Customers. Yes, 35.

  

  Ian Channing ( profile ), 01 Feb, 2010 @ 02:08am

  Alexa ranking way down even year-on-year

  So the graph at the top is a bit misleading as the newsday rankings have risen since, there's also the argument that december is the holiday period. However when you compare year on year results the drop is indeed quite dramatic. Take a look at http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/newsday.com, click on Traffic Stats | Trafic Rank | Select 'Max' in the drop-down under the graph.

• On the post: If Your Options Are To Change With The Times Or To Just Complain About Them, Which Is More Likely To Work?

  

  Ian Channing ( profile ), 20 Jan, 2010 @ 06:41am

  Making money off music

  It maybe the reality that music will become free and artists will have make money off the back with other scarce products. What's clear from the last paragraph from DJ Shadow is that musicians want to make money from the music they make not derivatives, they don't want to be t-shirt salesmen and don't want to spend their lives touring. This is probably just artists holding onto their pride, but it should not be ignored when trying to get musicians to change their ideas.

• On the post: Time For 'Israelification' Of U.S. Airports?

  

  Ian Channing ( profile ), 06 Jan, 2010 @ 01:43am

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  Good stuff Mr. Fish, love the Churchill comment.

• On the post: Viacom's General Counsel Lecture On Copyright Leaves Out Certain Facts

  

  Ian Channing ( profile ), 26 Nov, 2009 @ 04:33am

  Re: Re: Re: Re:

  Cheers, I've added an equally scaled version: http://www.flickr.com/photos/20950575@N05/4135175581/sizes/o/. There may be some errors / rounding by the people who collected the data on budgets causing the clumping.

• On the post: Viacom's General Counsel Lecture On Copyright Leaves Out Certain Facts

  

  Ian Channing ( profile ), 18 Nov, 2009 @ 07:48am

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  Give the discussion over correlation, you might as well graph Budget vs Takings - which I did: http://www.flickr.com/photos/20950575@N05/4114445119/sizes/o/. There is actually very little correlation and the variance increases as you spend more, so its riskier to have a bigger budget.