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Re: Sued for Playing Whitney: Bar Owners Fighting Relentless Drive for Music Fees

Joe Taylor Jr. — Wed, 11 Nov 2015 12:53:11 -0000

If you hire a local band and they play their own songs, they should ALSO be getting compensated under ASCAP/BMI/SESAC. Bands shouldn't have to give up compensation for the promise of exposure.

Re: Hey, startups: If you want to get our attention, please don’t do this

Joe Taylor Jr. — Wed, 04 Nov 2015 13:11:38 -0000

Someone's been reading one too many "growth hacking" listicles. LOL.

Re: Is Monetate going through an identity crisis?

Joe Taylor Jr. — Mon, 10 Aug 2015 14:39:25 -0000

Wow, as a product person (most of the time), the phrase "protected from the demands of product management" really sticks with me. Does this mean that the product was no longer solving customer problems, or that customer problems were no longer the things the engineers were interested in solving?

Re: On the Stupidity of the La Viola “Boycott”

Joe Taylor Jr. — Fri, 19 Sep 2014 17:01:04 -0000

They didn't have to. Those identities were confirmed before anyone at the restaurant knew about the connection and before police investigators made contact.

Re: On the Stupidity of the La Viola “Boycott”

Joe Taylor Jr. — Thu, 18 Sep 2014 06:32:26 -0000

That's how most small restaurants work when they haven't yet converted to an electronic reservation system. They use a date book like the kind you'd buy at CVS for $7 and just rip the page out at the end of the night. (My wife and I ate at a similar place in Glenside last week that uses a copybook like the one I used in third grade.)

According to Detective Joe Murray at the PPD, this is "not a Law & Order episode." By the time the photo's location was identified as La Viola Ovest, there was no real reason for police to reach out to the management. That the party dined at La Viola Ovest is not the fact that the DA's office will have to prove here.

On the Twitter account that La Viola opened yesterday just to address the situation, they confirmed their commitment to cooperating in any investigation.

Re: On the Stupidity of the La Viola “Boycott”

Joe Taylor Jr. — Wed, 17 Sep 2014 11:25:39 -0000

My wife and I live a few doors down from La Viola. It's a small business, and the folks that work there HUSTLE. They hustle HARD. If I'm walking the dog after work, those servers are busting out extra tables on the sidewalk and in the alley to handle the demand from walk-up business. And when I'm walking the dog before bed, they're still taking care of the last few stragglers. The staff will actually run across the street between both locations to support each other when they're slammed. We've never had a bad meal there.

Think about where you work -- you don't always get to choose who walks into your establishment, and you definitely don't know what's in people's minds or hearts when you're serving them. (And, as a BYO, La Viola doesn't control what people drink, or how much.)

Re: All Of The Startups Are Eschewing Suburban Office Parks For City-Based HQs, Except In Philadelphia

Joe Taylor Jr. — Thu, 05 Sep 2013 13:06:40 -0000

Of course, this is 2011 data. 76 Capital and First Round (among others) moving within the city limits over the last year should significantly improve the figures once 2013 data becomes available.

Re: The Newest in Native: Editorial Reviews Reborn as Ads

Joe Taylor Jr. — Tue, 20 Aug 2013 10:07:14 -0000

When I read, "we worked with editorial to get their confidence in it," I hear, "we held meetings with editorial until they all quit, stopped coming, or cried."

Re: Disgusting: Rats at Green Eggs Cafe

Joe Taylor Jr. — Mon, 06 May 2013 09:53:03 -0000

If you're a manager of a restaurant or a retail establishment, is it EVER a good idea to let a camera crew tape your reaction to some footage they want to show you?

Re: Alex Day beats the industry, pirates shouldn’t keep you up at night, and Red Bull wants to promote music startups

Joe Taylor Jr. — Mon, 01 Apr 2013 17:12:25 -0000

The pleasure's all mine, Steve!

Re: Klip Collective creates 38-ft. tall projection of Big Ben for Flower Show

Joe Taylor Jr. — Sun, 10 Mar 2013 19:45:35 -0000

So glad you called this out—as a guy at the flower show who's not always totally into flowers, the Big Ben display was a huge highlight for me. Even happier to know the Python-esque animation was locally sourced.

Re: Philly Mag’s “Being White in Philly” Doesn’t Make Sense as Journalism

Joe Taylor Jr. — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 13:42:25 -0000

Kudos for your whole team being open to discussion about the process, even though discussion on the piece itself is already devolving into a flame war.

Re: How We Use Venmo To Make Our Employees Happy

Joe Taylor Jr. — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 15:56:34 -0000

That's pretty awesome. Do you just paste in a list of the addresses that opted in, or is there a group function that keeps things simple?

Re: How to get a guitar on an airplane. (Or any other musical instrument, for that matter.)

Joe Taylor Jr. — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 22:36:21 -0000

Only if you play one like a weapon.

Re: My Battle With Content Marketing and Selling Out

Joe Taylor Jr. — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 10:59:14 -0000

We had a few good years where the signal-to-noise ratio among content marketers was pretty high, and it was easy to use social proof to figure out who really knew what they were talking about. With so much focus on spreading and "growth hacking," it's easy to overlook that building relationships on deeper idea exchanges can be far more meaningful (and profitable) than trying to scale on those same 12 bullet points.

Re: http://johnrossbowie.tumblr.com/post/30250888702

Joe Taylor Jr. — Sun, 26 Aug 2012 14:17:47 -0000

CBS is running this instead of the RNC on Monday, right?

Re: 20 Companies Using Computer-Generated Stories to Save Money on Writers - GalleyCat

Joe Taylor Jr. — Sat, 17 Sep 2011 11:04:42 -0000

Like Christine said, it sounds spreadsheet-like, but it does seem to mimic a lot of the stats-heavy sports reporting I hear on the radio these days. It just underscores the need for writers to build a personal voice that can draw real emotion from raw facts.

Also, it sounds like a very boring game.

Re: Twitter Ramps Up Its Ad Plan Again, With Ads You Haven’t Asked To See

Joe Taylor Jr. — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 06:57:08 -0000

If they can maintain the quality of ads, messages, and targeting, things should be fine. If it turns into a sea of "congratulations, you've won an iPad" ad-spam, it's the end.

Re: Why You Shouldn’t Blog About “Some People”

Joe Taylor Jr. — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 12:16:04 -0000

Journalists learn about attribution and triangulation early in their training, but "journalists" only make up a fraction of the blogging community these days. Non-journalists may not realize how much more powerful their writing becomes if they're unafraid to stand on the shoulders of their peers.

Re: Where can you sell your music online?

Joe Taylor Jr. — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 16:13:21 -0000

Tell us more... what makes Getonic different from other services?

Re: The Argument Against Multitasking

Joe Taylor Jr. — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 12:27:00 -0000

It's true. I get so much more when I can devote all of my brain to a single thing at once. I can't think of a single client that would want me to admit that I think about anything else but their project while I'm working on it. So, when I think about what clients really mean when they say they want someone who can multitask, I imagine they prefer someone who can shift quickly from one very focused task to another.

Re: The Argument Against Multitasking

Joe Taylor Jr. — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 08:27:55 -0000

Re: Where’s your hustle?

Joe Taylor Jr. — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 10:56:42 -0000

Small moves means a moving job that takes less than a day to complete, like moving someone from one apartment to another in a city. I've met a few bands that needed large vans or trucks for their gear, so they use the trucks during their off days as cheap movers.

Re: Coconut man, moon heads, and pee?

Joe Taylor Jr. — Sat, 19 Mar 2011 18:04:58 -0000

"PEA" makes infinitely more sense. Thanks, Danielle!

Re: Two Phrases You Should In Fact, Honestly Avoid Saying

Joe Taylor Jr. — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 08:40:00 -0000

"I&#39m not gonna lie" seems to show up on my team a lot. "Were you gonna?"