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• On the post: Netflix Agrees To Delay Fox And Universal New Releases, Annoy Avatar Fans

  

  Chris ODonnell ( profile ), 12 Apr, 2010 @ 08:36am

  I agree with jsl4980. I'm not a fan of enabling the studios stupid decisions, but I don't think this really hurts Netflix. Streaming is where their future is. People that want to see a movie as soon as it is available will see it in a theater or download it anyway.

• On the post: FTC Finally Forces FreeCreditReport.com To Be Honest In Its Advertising

  

  Chris ODonnell ( profile ), 03 Mar, 2010 @ 11:19am

  Damn you Mike, now I have their stupid song stuck in my head :)

• On the post: IOC Threatens Ski Gear Company For Mentioning That Gold Medal Winner Wears Its Stuff

  

  Chris ODonnell ( profile ), 19 Feb, 2010 @ 07:19am

  And the phrase makes "Streisand Effect" makes an appearance in the comments.

• On the post: Quarterback Drew Brees Explains Why Supreme Court Should Block NFL From Having Exclusive Licensing Deals

  

  Chris ODonnell ( profile ), 11 Jan, 2010 @ 06:01am

  Football contracts also aren't guaranteed. A baseball player with an $50 million contract will make $50 million, even if he is a bust or gets injured. A 5 year football contract is usually only guaranteed for the first two years or so. The numbers look good in the paper, and the Brees family certainly isn't worried about where the next meal is coming from, but pro football players do not have the same level of financial security as other sports.

• On the post: Maine Wants Mobile Phones To Carry A Cancer Warning… Despite Lack Of Evidence; [Updated: SF Too]

  

  Chris ODonnell ( profile ), 23 Dec, 2009 @ 05:14pm

  My wife had a very interesting conversation at the ENT last week. Her ENT says there are some initial studies out there that show not just increased incidents of acoustic neuroma, but that it correlates to the side of your head that you usually hold the phone. He fully expects to see increased rates of brain tumors connected to mobile phone use, but that it might take 20 years for it to become commonly accepted.
  
  Of course, nothing makes a board certifies surgeon immune from magical thinking, but his opinion, which is all that it is at this point, is definately interesting.

• On the post: Unemployed? Blogging? Don't Put Ads On Your Site Or You Might Lose Your Unemployment Check

  

  Chris ODonnell ( profile ), 12 Oct, 2009 @ 06:17am

  I hope that is not VA you are having issues with!

• On the post: Creative Web Destruction: Sites Go Away

  

  Chris ODonnell ( profile ), 06 Oct, 2009 @ 06:25am

  A friend of mine started a company to address this exact problem. For $10 a month his service grabs your data from a lot of the online services (with more being constantly added) and backs up to an Amazon S3 account. Granted it's still all out in the cloud but what are the odds that Amazon, Facebook, and Gmail will all fail at the same time?

• On the post: Next Up For Disruption? College

  

  Chris ODonnell ( profile ), 11 Sep, 2009 @ 06:51am

  Add the coworking model to education

  Agreed that online education will probably never be able to replicate the social education experience of interacting with classmates and instructors. However, if you take the idea behind coworking and extend it to education you might get something that fills in a lot of the gaps and still allows for major disruption in the higher education market.

• On the post: Have Your Say: Should Mike Speak At SXSW?

  

  Chris ODonnell ( profile ), 18 Aug, 2009 @ 02:10pm

  It took about an hour for my confirmation email to show up.

• On the post: What Would Happen If Social Networking Sites Charged

  

  Chris ODonnell ( profile ), 29 Jul, 2009 @ 07:11am

  LinkedIn

  LinkedIn is another social networking sort of site that has managed to charge for some services. I would venture to guess that 98% of the users are using the free service, but they have managed to find at least some people that see value in the $50 a month pro version.
  
  Of course, I have no idea if LinkedIn is making money.

• On the post: Why The Healthcare Industry Doesn't Want Electronic Medical Records

  

  Chris ODonnell ( profile ), 26 Jun, 2009 @ 08:46am

  //As a Canadian, I will say that it rarely takes more than a few hours to see a doctor, but it might take months to get to a specialist or into surgery for anything that isn't life threatening.//
  
  It's no different in the US. I can get into my primary care doc in 24 hours. It takes 2+ months to get an appointment with a specialist if it's not a life threatening emergency. I've talked to several friends in Canada and the doctor access issue is a wash. It's no different than the current state of affairs in the US. There may be many arguments against a Canadian style health system, but access to medical care is not one of them

• On the post: New Service Lets You Use 'The Computer Ate My Homework' As An Excuse

  

  Chris ODonnell ( profile ), 12 Jun, 2009 @ 04:04pm

  The commenters at http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2009/06/corrupted_word.html did a brutal beat down on this service and all the ways it would be fairly easy for teacher / professor to bust you on it.

• On the post: Iron Maiden Torturing Trademark Law?

  

  Chris ODonnell ( profile ), 08 May, 2009 @ 05:48am

  I am an Iron Maiden fan, and when you consider that the intersection of metal fans and comic book fans might be significant, I can see how this fails the moron in a hurry test. Given the literary influences in his song writing, it's not at all unreasonable to believe that Bruce Dickinson would write a graphic novel, and the logo on the comic book could definitely be be mistaken as related to the band on first glance.

• On the post: My Keynote At Mesh: Growing Communities And Adding True Scarcities

  

  Chris ODonnell ( profile ), 11 Apr, 2009 @ 07:50am

  Works fine on Linux

  I just watched the videos - Firefox on Ubuntu 8.04. It works fine.
  
  Nice job Mike!

• On the post: A Different Model For Touring: House Concerts

  

  Chris ODonnell ( profile ), 27 Mar, 2009 @ 07:43pm

  Folk performers (and bands) having been doing this since back when the Internet was still a government research project. 50 people at $20 a head is $1000. Do that 50 times a year plus add in CD sales, tshirts, etc and you are probably in the top 10% of income earners in the music business.

• On the post: My MidemNet Presentation: Trent Reznor And The Formula For Future Music Business Models

  

  Chris ODonnell ( profile ), 05 Feb, 2009 @ 10:50am

  Great job Mike - I couldn't tell you were jet lagged at all! Have you heard from anybody with NiN about this? That would be some pretty cool feedback to get.

• On the post: Dispensing With Some Myths About The Poor Poor Songwriters Decimated By Piracy

  

  Chris ODonnell ( profile ), 03 Feb, 2009 @ 10:34am

  CDbaby.com still sells the plastic discs, and there is a lot of great music there. Aimestreet.com is another place to discover new music, although finding the plastic discs might be more problematic for anything you like there.
  
  Oh, and great article Mike. I hope we see Castle and Carnes in the comments here.

• On the post: Dr. Horrible Gives People A Reason To Buy The DVD

  

  Chris ODonnell ( profile ), 22 Dec, 2008 @ 04:24pm

  "If one million copies fo Dr.Horrible are sold i'll make a new series of Firefly" I'd buy 3 or 4 if that were the case :) Really hoping to find the Dr Horrible DVD in my Christmas stocking...

• On the post: Band Incorporates As A Company And Raises Money, Rather Than Signing With A Label

  

  Chris ODonnell ( profile ), 06 Nov, 2008 @ 10:13am

  So can I short bands that appear to be, uh, short on talent?

• On the post: Facebook Using DMCA Notices To Takedown Private Videos?

  

  Chris ODonnell ( profile ), 30 Oct, 2008 @ 11:17am

  Well at least Facebook is responsive. I got an email reply just this week (8 weeks after the fact) from Google that said they would review the video from the original story, but can't because I already deleted it.
  
  I forwarded to email to you Mike on Monday or Tuesday.

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