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Re: Stop Calling Mike Pence Homophobic

im2b_dl — Sat, 12 Nov 2016 02:20:49 -0000

What are you talking about?! So I guess you watched all the debates when he ran for congress? The fact that every issue on gays that came up he has either spoken against them, voted against them, or set up legislation against them. Did you read the Republican agenda written this yea? gay marriage is not a dead issue. Did you read the background on the 20 judges ? Mike Pence has repeatedly reviled the 'gay agenda' ... and was so "careless" to allow a loophole for people to be sued for applying for a marriage certificate. & it wasn't corrected until there was an uproar. Another correction he fought doing as he praised the Family Research Council.
From his 2000 congressional website "Congress should oppose any effort to recognize homosexual’s as a 'discreet and insular minority' entitled to the protection of anti-discrimination laws similar to those extended to women and ethnic minorities."
And let's get Pence's other statement on conversion therapy... where he didn't want money's going to Ryan White Foundation if it supported gay men
" Congress should support the reauthorization of the Ryan White Care Act only after completion of an audit to ensure that federal dollars were no longer being given to organizations that celebrate and encourage the types of behaviors that facilitate the spreading of the HIV virus. Resources should be directed toward those institutions which provide assistance to those seeking to change their sexual behavior."

I'm not going to go further but there are tons of allusions Pence has made about all these things...for you to lecture journalists on this seems ripe.
You need to try spending more than a couple hours researching. Ugh

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im2b_dl — Tue, 24 Feb 2015 14:49:22 -0000

Actually listened to make sure he knew that he was answering all my questions. Took the time to explain... Not rushed.

Re: Reinvent Net Neutrality

im2b_dl — Wed, 11 Jun 2014 14:30:04 -0000

hasn't the U.S. subsidized these carriers in the billions? & isn't the truth of the matter the costs of data storage and delivery have a lot more to do with the cloud, which isn't really under the umbrella of the carriers?

Re: Net Neutrality: A Seductive Political Euphemism

im2b_dl — Wed, 11 Jun 2014 14:25:36 -0000

this article is a bunch of bologna. There is no competition between these companies. Bush Jr. repealed the monopoly laws and we have two behemoths with infrastructures that were overwhelmingly subsidized by the federal government to provide a utility. They are saying bandwidth costs them so much... the government paid for much of the bandwidth. It is a cloud issue which neither of these companies have wrapped in their charges to clients like Netflix etc. This is a big lie and you are bought in. & that is disgusting.

Re: The Search For The Next Platform

im2b_dl — Wed, 26 Mar 2014 13:55:49 -0000

Not that hard... It's all the same thing they are banking on... Both Google Glass & facebook's Oculus are coming at the cubic web (web³) from two sides. VR & AR are the same thing... As will be hypervideo. They all know what the platform is that is coming but until they (I know self-serving but true) see how cubic/layered media will work and what shape it is in... They don't know the shape of the channel.

Re: Focus

im2b_dl — Mon, 05 Aug 2013 11:57:41 -0000

Fred I just have to say this... Jobs focused Apple. He did not focus himself. He helped oversee those maneuvers with Pixar. A very different goal and business. Apple's product drive was informed by them understanding processes and incorporating that culture, know how and systems further into, and complicating, what they were doing. But only by complicating how much knowledge they had were they able to streamline the things that mattered. IMHO. I know that he would (and did) argue that Pixar and his experience in creative and it's breadth of expectation in systems, production & culture management helped him move Apple to where he went.

Re: What if Steve Jobs was happy and balanced ?

im2b_dl — Mon, 05 Aug 2013 11:50:34 -0000

yes, I have to say...common sense to me says... It is different for a VC... (I personally am surrounded by them from my last incarnation in life) or almost any other job out there... different from being the CEO of one of a small roster of companies that becomes pervasive to our way of life, but depends highly on managing people and other people's direction.

Re: Is the iPhone camera destroying standalone cams or is it a gateway drug to serious cameras

im2b_dl — Wed, 31 Jul 2013 12:30:04 -0000

I think it is both...but in the next 5 years (and I say this as a Polaroid kid who has worked with cameras for a living and in life since he was 2)... the standalone will be rarer and rarer... as the innovations jump exponentially. (especially with advancements in lightfield hybridization) -imho

Re: 'Binders,' cooking and equal pay: Did Romney undo gains with women voters?

im2b_dl — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 11:31:21 -0000

it was not 20-30 years ago... IT was the 80's and 90's. and lots of women were in power positions then. Bain & Co. had a hugely strong record with women...yet the company he went and founded was miserable on that record. BOTH financial companies.

Re: 'Binders,' cooking and equal pay: Did Romney undo gains with women voters?

im2b_dl — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 11:29:55 -0000

I knew Romney and I knew his Lt. Gov. ...yes, he was pushed to appoint women. It was necessary for him to make promises like that to win Massachusetts...especially if you look at his record with women at his company Bain Capital.

Re: 'Binders,' cooking and equal pay: Did Romney undo gains with women voters?

im2b_dl — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 11:26:45 -0000

Mitt Romney knew lots of women...the company he worked for before he started Bain Capital.. Bain & Co. actually is now run by a woman who was hired at the same time as him. Bain & Co. where he started (with an introduction given to him because of his father's connections)... promoted lots of women in financial services. When Romney started his own company, Bain Capital...he promoted none.

Re: 'Binders,' cooking and equal pay: Did Romney undo gains with women voters?

im2b_dl — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 11:22:16 -0000

During Mitt Romney's entire tenure at Bain Capital (2
decades)not one woman was made a partner. Not 1. When Governor he was
pushed to hire women because politically he had to. It was
Massachusetts. So yes he lied. and yes...in the bigger picture it
matters quite a bit to half the population to have a President that
never saw women viable enough to promote at his own large company.

Re: Why the Web Hasn’t Hurt TV

im2b_dl — Sun, 04 Mar 2012 21:18:14 -0000

It's about quality and people with the web continue to underestimate the "event"

Re: SOPA Witch-Hunters, Count Me Out

im2b_dl — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 00:01:14 -0000

ClickBrain there is lobbying coming from both sides. I know a fair share of congress and the Senate. I know them as people. They actually aren't all zombies as you think. They have many issues put in front of them... right now this is in front of some of them... some will vote blindly on the issue..but most of them would like to see how to fix the problem. Yes their staff informs them of details... but they themselves want to look like they found an answer. ..& there is a problem. (Only the most extreme out there argue that piracy is not a problem). They are put between a rock and a hard place. Unfortunately no one is showing them a way out. But they aren't drones as is this popular fallacy ... they can be informed, and make up their minds from that information...but often protectionism gets in the way. & yes then they go back to their staff and the lobby. They're not dumb.. pre-disposed sure... but not dumb.

Yes the studios over reached. Duh. Of course... but what comes back... people who want congress to ignore the problem rather than fix them problem the way they don't want it to be. Polarity out of reactionary protectionism... no address/answer to the issue and / or they just say all of it will completely destroy the internet on it's face. So very little work gets done on resolutions because no one is giving reasons/answers to resolve ...the problem... that won't avoid the problems of SOPA/PIPA. It becomes simplified into Sofie's choice and they need to see it is not.

Re: SOPA Witch-Hunters, Count Me Out

im2b_dl — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 23:10:08 -0000

Clickbrain ..all I can say is...your wrong. As browsers like Firefox and Chrome etc... implement hypervideo in their HTML5 video design to implement some form of new hypervideo interactivity (finally) over the last year, and content is slowly catching up to build things that are cubic and "drillable" from the screen (convergent transmedia)... the business model changes. Reasonable people can see they don't have to protect anyone within the next year really... but no one talks about that, has talked about it.. or even attempted to have that reasonable explanation that gets rid of 90% of the urgency in this stupid fight.

It is ALL about the money. The money is all in the business model. If content becomes the platform to carry "more" ..and it becomes more difficult to follow /interface with the experience because of it's "cubic" architecture inherent in the new communication form... Piracy becomes more difficult and you have a model where they want to push it and share rather than rely solely on the sale of the object.

If they pass the bill ...all bills could be fixed if everyone acknowledged what the other side was giving them. I am hoping they do not pass this piece of trash...but I can see why now it may. It's been handled pitifully on both sides... If they do not pass the bill and this is the line people wanted to draw in the sand... I'll tell you, call it a game but extremes won't be the ones who protect the internet.. or get us a better internet.

Re: SOPA Witch-Hunters, Count Me Out

im2b_dl — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 22:31:48 -0000

There was a middle ground. Everyone plays this like the entire congress was paid into ignoring the bad parts. That is just stupid on it's face. What congress needed to see was a way to address a better model for the studios and content creators problems... Let us not forget entertainment is arguable the second largest industry and therefore salary provider in the world..It is the US's second largest export. (Ideas and architectures are what they needed to battle this... not screaming pointing fingers crap on both sides... ridiculous... ...say like cubic narrative that is multi-platform/transmedia and inherently harder/almost impossible to pirate, or hypervideo integration that is growing with HTML5 which enables retail integration..that would change the content production and distribution model to a "push" rather than a "limit" distribution model...both of these ..which are coming..will make the piracy/censorship debate mute/minimal. Those are the things that minimize the studio arguments.)... But instead we act like a bunch of protective lunatics like the extremists in congress. Everyone
on both extremes now looks like an ass to the general public and to
congress. Black lists never play well with congress (they may sting the corporation but it's a little late for that to have much effect on congress...especially if that corporation looks black balled. or the black listing looks oddly selective to one or two corporations and avoids rejecting the NFL, MLB and credit cards because they like those guys) ..go look at history. It never plays well.. black listing always ends up hurting what you are trying to protect.
oy. Everyone screaming how bad the other side is. 2 results ... The bad
SOPA/PIPA goes thru and there won't be anyone looking at the opposition
as reasonable to listen to go back and fix it. or SOPA/PIPA gets
defeated and the studios will not listen to reason when they attempt to
shut ALL content down being used for free through the judicial branch.
Who the heck is running this show anyway. ugh Answers ...not all this bologna.

And you all give congress too much credit with lobbying. They take money and most vote for things they don't read because of simple understanding. No one is giving them answers to a problem... just have what looks like protectionism on all sides. Of course $ can sway them..but they're not that detailed. oy. They are not wheeling and dealing like Dr. Evil or some genius dark politician. People watch too many movies.

Re: Some Thoughts On The Louis CK "Experiment"

im2b_dl — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 14:19:49 -0000

Yeah.. What will happen very soon is all those pieces will have their own retail and the content will be the platform. It will dramatically change not only the licensing but all of this piracy vs. censorship polarity will be a non-issue. If people had a better understanding of both sides of this that would alleviate the problems and these bad arguments on either side of getting these bad bills.

Re: Some Thoughts On The Louis CK "Experiment"

im2b_dl — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 12:53:46 -0000

Easily. If you understand budgets of marketing & distribution ...and all the extraneous powerful infrastructure that Louis CK has that is not included in his costs but assisted in him distributing this. Never mind if he had to sign signatory agreements with the teamsters & entertainment unions (& residual payouts) if it was not a "concert film"

Re: Some Thoughts On The Louis CK "Experiment"

im2b_dl — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 11:56:57 -0000

Fred ...wildly oversimplifying what he has for an already existing infrastructure to gain those revenues. What he actually did with the real numbers of distribution vs. what he had going into it (including the free infrastructure he inherently already has on a massive scale that .00001 % of artists will ever have) ...is hand the pro-DRM people a massive argument why piracy is a problem because the revenue #'s (when you do the REAL math for 99.999999% of the industry) will be hurt by it.

There are good examples that are coming up...but we have a long way to go.

This is a horrific example to use in arguing for direct to consumer. 500k return with the massive marketing and ideology sell he put forward.. is a weak return for anybody never mind the fact that his structure supports a very different model than complex media content like 90% of TV and film (he is a singular artist with a minimal crew on this project).

Everyone keeps putting this up as a successful venture and to some extent for him and his concert promotion and series promotion...it is... but the real numbers for anything outside of that are bad. There is no secret shrink in distribution and marketing costs, yet, that competitive large distribution companies have not figured out yet. The model of the content itself has to change for complex collaborative content.

If this was not a marketing tool for his other revenue streams this would be definitively a one time deal. As it is like many who gave away free ventures/content architectures in the past , my guess he will like they did ...quietly do back to what everyone else was doing because in reality those #'s (as large as they seem) still don't work without temporary celebrity and "pseudo-political" hype.

Re: Freedom To Innovate

im2b_dl — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 10:48:29 -0000

I know you are. I should have clarified that. SOPA/PIPA won't be passed... but a lot of the discussion has been bad in the extreme. (Not that you are saying that). The reason we have SOPA/PIPA (which I hate and warned many was going to happen because the models were not going to work for a massive industry like entertainment who have signatory issues) is because of arrogance and extremes on both sides of this argument.

There is a road forward... not about Kickstarter or even what Louis CK is doing. Louis CK has notoriety and will make some money but about how all of the internet revenue models work. How advertisers will get more specific about where they place retail integration and who has the "first in first out" priority contract. with that placement. A delivery service who has no control of where in the emotional, logical, ethical placement or the production of the content.

It is about changing ALL of the revenue models (not the investment models necessarily but the group funding laws will be fantastic if they get passed) of the internet. & by doing so will remove this debate...and give the government no leg to stand on and studios a much smaller impetus to do so in shutting down any site who is delivering communication that is not a real threat to someone's life.

Re: Freedom To Innovate

im2b_dl — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 09:54:04 -0000

Fred, The problem is...PIPA and SOPA are bad... but both sides are wrong on this. The revenue model has to change. & it will. But BOTH sides are fighting what is the inevitable change.
The problem ... VC's (perhaps not you but most) who invested in these platforms want those platforms to still be the platform to be the biggest potential and control for delivery of the revenue model... via virtual real estate (either for rent>paywall models, or for ad placement won't work) but this works until the content becomes the platform. When the platform is about placement on, within, near, and around the content architecture itself... not the multiple access channels to deliver that content. We then see the value is more integrated within the content architecture and how and when it is produced, not delivered.

When the content becomes the actual platform/virtual real estate (via hypervideo/transmedia/cubic/interface pervasive structure that is finally now evolving with HTML5 AR etc) ...the
platforms that presently exist (Twitter, Tumblr, Facebook etc... who haven't evolved to create their own content) will lose value to advertisers and
paywalls will shrink... but piracy and censorship will virtually shrink to a
non-issue because the model will be much more about spreading the
content and not selling the content. Both sides are fighting in this paradigm shift for their own free services from the other side and their own ability to hit the gold rush. (Let us remember the internet is the only delivery service that was given disclaimers for use of property in the last 50 years without over massive threat of lawsuit... just to spur the revenues/industry in start-ups we have seen, including a few that have made billions for people).
SOPA and PIPA are bad, very bad... but they will matter little (outside of the horribly over-reaching government shut down abilities) when the business model changes. And let us not lose sight that the content
industry (film/tv/music/entertainment) is arguably the second largest
economy in the world driving billions in payroll. The content creators who are restricted by people who risk much to create the complex content (Unions, signatory residual contracts etc.) ..the models don't work. They are scaled entities that need to fall back but that will damage our economy, never mind making those signatory changes with a union is a messy long, drawn out democratically voted change (that may never happen until everyone goes down). When both industries are hurt... it hurts the world economy. We are not just speaking of studios in a bubble... we are speaking of millions of people who work in the entertainment industry. Inevitably the internet and free sharing will help all of it...but let's not confuse scaled platforms with the "open internet"... as we should not minimize the need for individuals creating content en masse as a possible small business industry (where they can actually en masse make a living on just the content they create because it IS the platform)..as valuable if not more to the world and internet as a start-up that becomes Twitter.

Just as the "start-ups" who succeeded are now scaling(structures with massive payroll and overhead too quickly but unavoidably) and can't pivot because it was a faulty platform in long tail... because in the long run the value and focus of eyeballs and more importantly the instigation of purchase...is much more in the individual architecture of content/story architecture. The crossroad/gathering event becomes the content itself... leaving the platform as we see it now... not having a very good hand in controlling/placing value with virtual real estate.

There was a bill of goods sold to much of the content industry that giving things away for free increased their revenues... but that has predominantly failed in the reality and predominance of a mass sharing structure. It increases marketing on a scale... but not wide open with no restrictions on giving away the milk for free ..open ended.

That is why the other revenue structure will alleviate that. Revenue models / industries are like water and we will achieve that new structure but PIPA/SOPA as horrific as it is and needs to be overturned... only had a window to happen because both sides fought fixing their own issues. If it is overturned I can guarantee you it will be back again and again until we get to the new revenue model that much of the start-up tech investment community does not want, but is the best answer for everyone, the industry, the democracy, the market and the internet. & most importantly innovation... because it opens the market past technology start-ups but individual creators outside technology to be the platform.

Re: Taking The Shrill Out Of The SOPA Piracy Debate

im2b_dl — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 14:21:43 -0000

dead on.

Re: Thanks Grimlock

im2b_dl — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 10:56:46 -0000

"DL"

Re: Lineage

im2b_dl — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 11:45:06 -0000

It is how journalism will change. The footnote will (and should) become a sentence by sentence hypervideo/hypertext lineage check.

If journalistic ventures are started that have clear bias in their inception and do not hold to standards of truth and rather buy into the the false politic ...we should and will create a new standard for interface to include a sentence by sentence hypervideo/hypertext interface.

When I started discussing hypervideo this was the first thing I approached schools of transmedia, crowdsourcing and journalism with.

Nothing about the internet is more important than this toward our democracy. imho.

Re: Feature Friday: Canvas Bookmarklet

im2b_dl — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 10:11:36 -0000

aaah.. we are getting to one piece of social tv. only branding marks for personalized and open to those you know.

working on it..with everything else.