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  • On the post: The Value Of The Link vs. The Value Of The Content

    Danny ( profile ), 21 Jan, 2010 @ 01:33pm

    Re: nytimes.com unreliable source

    Thank you for your off-topic gripe.

  • On the post: The Value Of The Link vs. The Value Of The Content

    Danny ( profile ), 21 Jan, 2010 @ 01:27pm

    It's isn't cognitive dissonance; I am quite sure it must be something else

    Mike, I can buy the point you are making here. But, as you might suspect, the newspaper/magazine industry will not get it. They won't get it even five years down the road when it should become obvious to them (they will find some other excuse why their business model didn't work.)

    I am doing some consulting right now for a major museum. Their marketing VP wants help ramping up a project that is essentially a web magazine in their domain of expertise. Her focus is on all the great content they can deliver.

    My question five minutes into our first meeting was: how do you plan to monetize this? (In fact, most of this blogs readership would have known to ask that question.)

    Her answer was essentially, "I don't know yet." This was a fair answer as she is bringing me in very early to the project. But as we explored her options for monetizing, it became clear that paying for content was very high on her list. I told her it wouldn't work and explained why (the basic stuff Mike talks about). She insisted that lots of newspapers are going to start charging for content soon. And she is confident that because her material is high quality, it will have value.

    Sigh.

  • On the post: Sometimes Protecting Free Speech Means Protecting Speech You Don't Like

    Danny ( profile ), 19 Jan, 2010 @ 10:00am

    Hear hear!

    or Here Here!

    Not sure which is correct. But either way, this is a very good post.

  • On the post: UK Man Arrested And Banned From Airport For Twitter Joke About Blowing Up An Airport

    Danny ( profile ), 19 Jan, 2010 @ 09:52am

    Re: WHAT??!!

    I had a similar event happen to me on Christmas day flying to Hawaii. I had put my boarding pass in my backpack which ran through the detector. Ad the human detector, the guard asked to see my boarding pass. I told him it was in my backpack inside the other detector.

    He then told me I wouldn't be able to fly that day. When I looked confused, he told me he was joking.

    And my thought was: I am not allowed to make jokes here, then you shouldn't be allowed to make jokes here either.

    As I thought about it later, had I gone ballistic, they would have arrested me. But when it became clear I went ballistic over his joke - he would have been in a fair amount of trouble too.

  • On the post: Be Careful Challenging Others To Read 100 Books, As You Might Infringe On Someone's Trademark

    Danny ( profile ), 14 Jan, 2010 @ 05:24pm

    one upping them

    I just came on line to post the same thing. Nice to see others thought of it too.

  • On the post: Rob Glaser Leaving RealNetworks; A Chance To Reflect On How Being Anti-Consumer Fails In The Long Run

    Danny ( profile ), 14 Jan, 2010 @ 03:57pm

    hated the sneakware

    I hadn't ever thought about the fact that other people were sharing my experience. But it certainly is true that I once had a Real subscription (to listen to basketball and football games) and ended up giving up the games in order to drop Real given the frustrations I had with them.

    Sure does look like I was not the only one.

  • On the post: Google Considers Leaving China If China Will Not Allow Uncensored Search

    Danny ( profile ), 13 Jan, 2010 @ 10:05am

    Re: net still trumps?

    I don't see how Google can win this one.

    China's trump card is that they are a non-Democratic state. They can take the Google employees in China (mostly Chinese nationals, I presume) and throw them in prison or worse.

    In short, China has draconian negotiating tools available that Google can't match.

  • On the post: Man Sues Neighbor For Not Turning Off WiFi And Cell Phone

    Danny ( profile ), 10 Jan, 2010 @ 10:00am

    Re: Re: anti-wifi hats?

    They just don't make tinfoil hats like they used to.

  • On the post: New Lobbying Organization Tries To Skirt The Rules So It's Not Called A Lobbying Organization

    Danny ( profile ), 08 Jan, 2010 @ 09:30am

    fishy

    A lobbyist for the lobbying industry? Now THAT is a bottom feeder.

  • On the post: France's Latest Plan: Tax Google, Microsoft And Yahoo To Fund Record Labels

    Danny ( profile ), 07 Jan, 2010 @ 01:18pm

    Silver lining to this cloud

    If France pulls this off, expect the tech companies to become a strong unified voice against the arguments the media companies are making.

    And that voice might be helpful.

  • On the post: Still Waiting For The First Real Particpatory Presidential Administration

    Danny ( profile ), 04 Jan, 2010 @ 03:38pm

    Big fan of Obama, not of his web presence

    I signed up early to be part of Obama's web presence. Am fairly happy with his performance as President (and anticipate voting for him again), but have been very disappointed with his online presence. Mike's post captures what I have been feeling, but didn't know how to say.

    I still get emails from Obama and staff, but for the past year they've gone directly into the bit bucket. The broadcast political pablum holds no value to me. Had they gotten me involved, it would have been a very different year.

    Someday I will enjoy reading the article about how/why they dropped the ball on this.

  • On the post: Verizon Wireless Denies It's Charging People Phantom $1.99 Fee, Despite Tons Of Complaints

    Danny ( profile ), 23 Dec, 2009 @ 03:10pm

    Re: Re: Er, are they kinda insane?

    "I'm going to let the letter to the F.C.C. speak for us."

    Obviously the PR guy was told what to say, probably by the lawyers.

    Given that Pogue and 400 others have the charges on their bills, what the canned statement effectively means is:

    "We lied to the F.C.C."

  • On the post: Lawmaker, Convicted Of Raping Foster Kids, Claims Name Is Copyrighted So You Can't Report It

    Danny ( profile ), 16 Dec, 2009 @ 03:39pm

    Re: Link to the original crime reports

    He looks a lot like Jared's before picture.

  • On the post: Lawmaker, Convicted Of Raping Foster Kids, Claims Name Is Copyrighted So You Can't Report It

    Danny ( profile ), 16 Dec, 2009 @ 03:37pm

    Re: Re: Re: Re DidTedAlvinKlaudtRapeHisTwoFosterDaughters.com

    I filed for a patent for the business process of creating a "DidXRapeHisTwoFosterDaughters.com" website each time a story like this comes up.

    You will all have to pay me!

  • On the post: Book Publishers Starting To Delay eBook Releases — Taking Bad Ideas From Hollywood

    Danny ( profile ), 16 Dec, 2009 @ 09:56am

    Re:

    Godin makes a great point again. As he says, "We need to stop assuming that digital goods are just like physical goods, but shinier."

  • On the post: Vancouver Art Gallery Ordered To Remove Anti-Olympics Mural

    Danny ( profile ), 14 Dec, 2009 @ 02:08pm

    Re: great tshirt

    I will certainly buy a shirt!

  • On the post: Vancouver Art Gallery Ordered To Remove Anti-Olympics Mural

    Danny ( profile ), 14 Dec, 2009 @ 02:07pm

    This is Great!

    great in a social exhibitionism sort of way.

    I hope the gallery places the mural in a prominent position just inside its front door.

    And I hope the copyright holder (artist or gallery) permits free online reproduction of this piece so the message the Olympics (or at least the City of Vancouver) is trying to suppress is spread far and wide.

    I also agree with the sentiment that the gallery ought to leave the mural out front and force the city to forcibly remove it. The episode would undoubtedly be captured on video and posted all over the Internet.

  • On the post: Yahoo Doesn't Want You To Know Its Spying Price List; Issues DMCA Takedown

    Danny ( profile ), 13 Dec, 2009 @ 08:57pm

    Re: Re: Thanks!

    I have some flexibility when using it for education. There are also significant limitations to my fair use rights.

    That said, the PR burn to them for going after an educator is something they'd have to consider. That and the Streisand Effect.

  • On the post: Florida Says Judges Can't Even Be Facebook Friends With Lawyers

    Danny ( profile ), 11 Dec, 2009 @ 03:34pm

    Country Club Set

    My question to the advisory committee is whether this means that it's now inappropriate for a judge to have lunch with a lawyer friend, or engage in email banter with lawyer friends? Is attending the same party now off limits?
    The better analogy is whether judges can be members of the same country club as lawyers who might appear before them.

    It would be very interesting to see the Florida advisory committee rule against this.

  • On the post: AT&T's Bait And Switch On iPhone Unlimited Service: We Screwed Up, So Now You Have To Pay More

    Danny ( profile ), 10 Dec, 2009 @ 06:21am

    How long is iPhone exclusive to AT&T?

    Anyone here know how long the iPhone is exclusive to AT&T? I would love to get an iPhone, but won't use AT&T (even before reading this post) due to poor signal quality in Chicago.

    The whole recent ad controversy showing how poor their nationwide 3G coverage is strengthens my decision.

    So, I want an iPhone when I can get it with another provider who supports Chicago (and other places) better.

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