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Re: Trying out disqus.com (Scripting News)

Seth E — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 22:15:54 -0000

"an outlet for people's anger so easily"

I've wondered why your comment section was hidden away. Kind of like the waiting period on buying a handgun, give 'em a little time to cool down.

Re: Complete New Yorker archive on a hard disk (Scripting News)

Seth E — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 12:01:06 -0000

I got this for a friend for her Birthday earlier this year. It makes a Great Gift! I have been seeing a rise in the wholesaling of content lately, especially when it comes from one single producer. More and more TV studios/DVD companies have been releasing 'Complete Series' boxsets as opposed to Season 1, Season 2 etc. A much better pricing structure in my opinion. Now, personally, I don't need ALL of the New Yorker, but if Amazon would start doing this with individual authors (i.e 'Hemingway's complete works'), they may convince more and more of us to buy the Kindle.

Re: How I started Seesmic and raised $6 million

Seth E — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 23:22:39 -0000

Excellent job Loic! Seesmic has really helped me grow my profile and expand my network (also to really connect with people whom I'd only tweeted with before). What I mean is that it's benefiting all kinds of people, even economically. I hope it continues to do well, not just for me and the users, but because your whole team are such great people. Thanks again and hopefully I can thank you in person if your ever in New York.

Re: My reasons why video comments will work (and why you have to try and give them a chance)

Seth E — Wed, 14 May 2008 15:47:04 -0000

Seesmic video reply from Disqus.

Re: Seesmic du Jour 159: Who Did the Best Jump?

Seth E — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 19:10:18 -0000

Does you guys ever, um, work....

Re: A Day to Remember, A Day to Act

Seth E — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 12:07:02 -0000

"how’s the temperature down there, buddy?" Heh. I would agree with the overwhelming majority of what you say, only adding that such tools can also be--and increasingly have been--used by those same fundamentalists to create a "reality" out of thin air. The "tools" can be used for good, but also for evil etc. I'm not at all a web2.0 pessimist, but we do have to watch out for such things.

Re: The reviews are in

Seth E — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 12:37:39 -0000

The New York Times gives our small indie doc a killer review *and* goes free...All in the same day. Power To The People!

Re: Newbies Guide to Twitter

Seth E — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 17:56:18 -0000

Despite the good things I'd heard about Twitter, I also found myself asking "well, what do I do with this?" as not many people I know are particularly interested in "what I'm doing". But what I discovered was the "Micro-Blog" aspect. Whether riding the train, walking to work, reading the paper, or at work, if something pops into my head that I'd like to talk about later on my blog(when I get some free-time), I just quickly text in a few quick fragments about it. My twitter feed, embedded on my site, now acts as a sort of "sketchpad" which can show my--small, but growing--readership what I'm thinking and then they can see, later on, what conclusions I reach, etc.

Re: Deeper Twitter- Tuning Twitter for Value

Seth E — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 18:04:06 -0000

Today I twittered "I think people have become a little too beholden to Google, as evidenced by how they're attacking Scoble." Then I thought, wouldn't it be great if Twitter could, beside converting to tinys, also use links to pingback! I mean to blogs, as well as other Twitteres. Wouldn't that be great? Anyone?

Re: Real Live Human Social Networking

Seth E — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 09:06:41 -0000

This is great Chris. Thanks! You may have just convinced me to get over my anxieties and go to PodCamp next month. Also, not to plug bad habits, but I find having a drink first helps. Just one though!

Re: Digital Kids

Seth E — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 09:18:53 -0000

Sounding a little Grandpa-ish this morning are we? Yes the world is sure moving fast. Most interesting to me, we were all taught "Don't talk to strangers", a value which now seems untenable and boring, and--if passed on-- one which would severly hinder our children's ability to get ahead.

Re: Become a Valued Twitter User

Seth E — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 01:15:47 -0000

What we need is Twitter-poets. Or stories, told in 140 characters. It'd be a whole new medium.

Re: My Social Media Toolkit

Seth E — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 14:18:18 -0000

Has anyone ever checked out eyespot.com? It lets you upload your video, audio, and edit them using an AJAX based platform and then spit back out to Blip, etc. I was pretty impressed by it. Still, I'd really like it if there were a basic video editing app for my mobile, so I could cast wherever I am.

Re: A Basic Social Media Strategy

Seth E — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 00:22:23 -0000

Personally, my current challenge/predicament/headache is trying to market/push my friend's Indie Doc. I'm glad you mentioned some lesser known video-sites, I didn't even think about that! Submitting to YouTube makes you one in a million, but with some sites (kyte,ustream, even blip...to a point) you have a much better chance of being heard. I'm waiting on Digg till were really ready to capture the Digg-Jump. I never heard of Publicaster though, thanks! Also, I signed on, see you at Podcamp-Boston :-)

Re: Some Quick Branding Tips for Individuals

Seth E — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 12:55:42 -0000

I had a t-shirt made on CafePress...which maybe wasn't a *great* idea. Seriously though, you're right everyone is a brand now. But funny that only about a decade ago the term "personal branding" would mean little to most of us. Before the age of social media, it was called a "handle"(really just an identifier). But now your presence gets magnified so quickly that just about all of us need a store-front and a message (which we stick to) just to communicate & participate effectively. Having a blog, podcast, etc is cool, but having them without Twitter, Fbook, etc. is like having a Fbook profile without a picture; people won't trust you or even believe you exist.

Re: Brand Stories

Seth E — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 10:50:09 -0000

Seth @ The Obstructionist: A writer publishing short bits of fiction and experiments in prose. An attention to the art of letters rarely seen in the blogosphere.

Re: Kickoff Speech at PodCamp SoCal

Seth E — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 22:51:28 -0000

Can't wait till Boston :-)

Re: See The Game

Seth E — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 10:02:31 -0000

When I started blogging (about two months ago today) I was doing it to "win". Thing is, I wasn't really enjoying myself because I was only writing what I thought people would want read (seriously I could care less what Google buys or doesn't buy). It started to become tedious and a chore. When my original hit momentum slowed down (I had been linked to by Jeff Jarvis) to almost nill, I just started doing my own thing. I won't go into it (you can check out my blog), but what I'm doing now I'm actually excited about, look forward to sitting down in front of the comp all day, think about on the bus home, etc. I don't get the hits I could by just bitching about the iPhone, but I don't really care. If ONE person reads me a day, that's totally cool.
Anyway, I think wanting to win can sometimes be a huge problem. We all know *those* people on Twitter, Facebook, etc, who don't really seem to be enjoying themselves, but doing something because they think they have to. What's the point?
It's not about winning. Success, in my humble opinion, lies in not being afraid to lose.

Re: PodCamp Boston- 10 Days Away

Seth E — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 13:53:35 -0000

Do you know how hard it's going to be for me to go if the Sox win? That's about two generations of my family that would be rolling over in their graves for such treason.

Re: The New Gig

Seth E — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 17:37:15 -0000

After reading that 'moving on' post, I took the plunge and applied for a new job, one that will..well, if it happens I'll tell everyone. I hope it works out well for you, hope the commute's not too bad and thanks for the continued inspiration.

Re: Announcing Attention Upgrade

Seth E — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 12:12:07 -0000

I think it will be great. Those few videos you did on Facebook were great (like the 'play' one). You speak well. Can't wait!

BTW, I kept getting the same question at PodCamp. Me: "ermmmmm...."

Re: Happy Birthday Katrina

Seth E — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 14:09:49 -0000

Not public? Her first Seesmic post involved playing a rather beautiful song on a ukulele. That's more public than I've ever gotten. :)

Tell her Seth said Happy Birthday!

Re: What Tom Could Learn from Facebook

Seth E — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 21:02:34 -0000

I'm going to (slightly) play the Devil's advocate here. I made the same mistake roughly nine months ago. I had no experience with any of this, but worked for a company that heard the meme that everyone else is hearing: There's money to be had here. I, acting on their behalf, sent a boneheaded email to a very important blogger requesting he do something ridiculous for us. He called us--and me--out on it as well and nearly got me fired. The thing is, for most people in the business world, this is just HOW things are done. Nothing malicious or sinister about it, it's just an accepted matter-of-course.

Thankfully, I both left the company and, despite this incident (or perhaps because of it) stayed around long enough to get involved. But, I wonder if sometimes we're not being counter-productive by trying to shame those who "don't get it". If we agree that a lot of it is 'new' then why are we so shocked and dismayed at the prevalence of the old? Should everyone be expected to know the ins-and-out of the conversation before joining it?

Re: Twitter Bashing- A Popular Sport Lately

Seth E — Wed, 21 May 2008 20:09:32 -0000

What's to be said about a community that doesn't give-up on a product when it doesn't work. Isn't that the backbone of all entrepreneurial endeavours: People will use things that work and not use things that don't work. Why are we going against the natural order? There are more than enough alternatives out there, friendfeed being one of them. I think it's time to vote with our feet (in the meta sense) and go somewhere else. Otherwise, of course the people who run Twitter aren't going to care, why would they? We're not going to leave, right?

Re: “Scoble can’t be more wrong”

Seth E — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 09:53:19 -0000

I think your dead-on. It's Algs vs Folks, so to speak. What really struck me is that you correctly point out that because of SEOs and "sponsered links", Google "can't" change, it's too beholden. The inabiliy to grow has been the end of every company, since mankind first started trading shiny rocks. But two questions:

1. What about Google's other services? Could it pull an AOL and abandon it's original niche?

2. What's to stop Google from buying the services you mentioned in that four year time span? And even worse, what's to stop them from "absorbing" them?

Also, I think Jeff Jarvis would strongly disagree with your "watch Yahoo" finale, as he believes their time has come. Personally, I don't see how one can look at YahooPipes and tell me this company ain't the future.

Re: What I learned

Seth E — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 12:52:35 -0000

Don't back down! That people are far too beholden to Google is not your fault. Neither is the fact that questioning Goog's hegemony is seemingly "off-limits". If you made a mistake, fine, but at-least wait out your four year time frame before saying so, otherwise your retraction might be the biggest mistake. And, furthermore, don't let others vitriol determine what you will or won't talk about.

Re: A day of social networking, 150 million views a day (on RockYou)

Seth E — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 23:50:50 -0000

Yeah. Originally I laughed off the Facebook platform as silly. But when you think about it, essentially it lets shmoes like me and thousands of other basement programmers/coders/designers etc, bootstrap off an incredibly dense DB, with data and an index that we could never acquire alone without significant funds. The possibilities are actually quite incredible. BTW, guess I missed the train on being your "friend". Didn't know they *had* a limit!!

Re: Email ain’t going away

Seth E — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 18:06:47 -0000

Yes, yes, but what if you had an RSS feed with EVERYTHING? A "Scoblecast" of sorts? That requires just one link? What if they had a reader, easy to use, that could quickly--and neatly--parse it. And then you could control what person or what groups of people got to see what content? What if...actually, I should probably stop writing and just go change the world. Thanks for the continued inspiration!

Re: Email ain’t going away

Seth E — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 18:24:35 -0000

Yes, if we could only find a way to make RSS more accessible...

Re: The $600 Apple Tax (UPDATED: now only $300 for me)

Seth E — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 14:45:28 -0000

I don't see why people are complaining. Whenever you buy something new, you should expect that the price will go down. I guess usually they don't announce such a dramatic one, but it would've been the case eventually anyway. Just be happy we haven't bought something new and expensive, only to have it flop and be discontinued.

Re: WARNING: Do NOT load Quechup

Seth E — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 15:26:52 -0000

of course, Quechup is wrong, evil, represents the worst offences of old-media marketing, etc. Still...why didn't I get asked?

Re: WARNING: Do NOT load Quechup

Seth E — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 16:09:02 -0000

I think a number of good honest examples have made many of us trust anyone who humbly declares themselves a "start-up". We assume that others have have the same respect for web2's communal nature that we do. Seven years ago, Tim, it would've been un-heard of.

Re: On TechCrunch 40

Seth E — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 10:10:13 -0000

It makes for a killer away message: "Having A Son". This is a sad reminder that every so often life interrupts our Twittering :-(

Re: Bloggers “double linking?”

Seth E — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 11:05:06 -0000

I find that I link to myself, perhaps more than I should. But often, I think, it's because you're establishing a narrative, a unique way of thinking, or a world view that is often best corroborated (or reinforced) by yourself. Also, you may--as I do--tend to get a little "esoteric" at times, but don't want new readers to feel like they walked in halfway through the movie.

Re: FeedBurner and Lifehacker debate full or partial feeds

Seth E — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 12:47:53 -0000

Those who don't use full feeds should be tarred, feathered, and have the video put up on YouTube. I can't stand it! It's arrogant, presumptious, unhelpful, and I absolutely--on mere principle--refuse to ever click further.

Re: Not to be missed photo events

Seth E — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 09:47:35 -0000

You sure are blogging an awful lot for a new father. Perhaps I'm just young, but I was always under the impression that your life ends, etc. Anyway, good to see you're not yet on paternity leave...congrats!

Re: The 10 rules of Twitter (and how I break every one)

Seth E — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 17:57:24 -0000

Actually, Rule #8, as observed, bothers the crap out of me. Maybe it's because I'm *technically* a newbie, but reciprocation--whether online or off--just seems a common courtesy. In fact, if your following 1 for every ten, and in far too many cases 1 for every 100, you're not having a conversation (which should also be a rule). Actually, since this list is rules most people don't follow anyway, here's two more:

1b.Don't Twit your latest blog post (Die Twitterfeed Die!). Okay, everyone breaks this, but at least make it, again, a ratio of 10 to 1 legit Twits.

2b. Twitter is not the forum for depressing, philosophical, existential, and post-modern musings on life, love, death, and the quandries of capitalism.

Note: I swear that last part wasn't a critcism of you for dropping an Adams reference last night. :-)

Re: The 10 rules of Twitter (and how I break every one)

Seth E — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 18:09:32 -0000

Okay, okay, two more:

3b Stop telling us "Really, I'm gonna stop Twittering now". NO YOU'RE NOT!

4b. If more than 2 of every 5 of your Tweets contains the word "Twitter" in it, it's time to sign off for a while (then see above).

Re: Here’s the FeedHub videos

Seth E — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 14:01:18 -0000

Interesting that push-technology seems to be making a web2 comeback...or rather, a resurrection.

Re: TechMeme list heralds death of blogging?

Seth E — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 14:38:07 -0000

Professionals come in and ruin a new platform?! So it goes... Most of the blogs I check out, and most of my readers, are all coming via Twitter. It's like a, as you say, A list. If one of my "friends" says "hey, just wrote this post etc." it's more likely to catch my attention then when I'm just J-ing mindlessly through GoogReader. Also, I don't think Twitter is necessarily killing blogs, but making us all ask if "we should just Tweet this?" and therefore may actually be helping blogs get better and more thought-out.

Re: Steve Ballmer still doesn’t understand social networking

Seth E — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 15:38:09 -0000

Microsoft's ideology is: We provide a service, You provide a service, Then we go our seperate ways. No input, beyond a techsupport@, no sharing or building. It's been over three-decades since Gates penned "An open letter to hobbyists" and still Microsoft is completely uncomfortable with the idea of community. That's what this all comes down to: Communities are scary and there members could have better ideas then us (notice, though, how Facebook solved this problem instead of suing).
BTW, as for not leaving services: Twitter's been going down nearly ever hour lately and none of us are going anywhere!

Re: Steve Ballmer still doesn’t understand social networking

Seth E — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 15:38:48 -0000

Sorry, I meant "You pay for a service".

Re: Steve Ballmer still doesn’t understand social networking

Seth E — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 22:44:25 -0000

I thought you were leaving PodTech? DAMN YOU VALLEYWAG! Seriously, what the hell are they doing on TM's 100?

Re: Microsoft: releasing source after everyone else?

Seth E — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 15:17:06 -0000

"Cool, but when you’re last to do something does it really matter anymore?"

Thats true, but I don't know if it's fair to criticize them for being woefully behind, then also criticize them for being last. Certainly, I don't want to coddle Microsoft (or any corporation), but maybe we should give credit for first steps where credit for first steps is due. But your addition also means that it's a half-assed half-baked first step, so I could be wrong.

Re: The hottest class at Stanford

Seth E — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 09:55:16 -0000

I've also noticed a major growth on craigslist of companies looking for "Facebook Developers". And this isn't just the valley, I'm talking about NYC.

Re: Content commodities

Seth E — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 10:06:50 -0000

Just signed up for the linkblog last week. I'm used to my GReader being "manageable" on the weekends, but no more. Still, I'm quite happy to let you do the searching! The reason it's harder to get found is because most people, myself included, don't have time to link through blogs and blogrolls and pingbacks etc. just to find new stuff (to fill up our already filled readers). Maybe I'm lazy, but I also have work to do and my own blogging to get done. So the linkblog has worked out great.
Also, I've been thinking of starting my own linkblog, well two actually, one for the non web people in my office (i.e things you should read) and another one to help evangelize Micro-Fiction. I didn't realize how easy it is, but I wish Google would give you more interface options.

Re: Google: making big social media moves

Seth E — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 12:18:51 -0000

I'm writing this as Twitter goes down for the umpteenth time this week. if Google can make Jaiku stable and a touch more intuitive then it is right now, they may be able to beat Twitter. I'm on there, but haven't really took up the task of migrating friends and so don't use it yet. If services want me, there going to have to give me a good reason to go through such a daunting task.

Re: Dodgeball? Jotspot? Jaiku!

Seth E — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 16:06:19 -0000

But then Jaiku/Google should get Twitter to work right on top of it. With today's buzz and all the activity and new adds going on at Jaiku, I've had to keep switching between services--not to mention my "real work" just to stay on top of everything and communicate with friends. I wish Jaiku built was some Twitterific-like application that could let me use everything and interact with all feeds at once. That's the direction GOOG needs to move it in, somekind of Seth-homebase.

Re: My stats from a few minutes ago

Seth E — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 12:29:19 -0000

Filed Under: Rubbing-Faces-In-it.

Although, I just realized that WP stats bases it's "overall" hits on post clicks and not based on unique visitors (like Google analytics). I wish they'd get that worked out because right now it's not giving you a accurate number.

Re: My stats from a few minutes ago

Seth E — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 15:20:49 -0000

You mean, I'm just another hit on your blog....:-(

Re: Kyte.tv ships new player, new API, new iPhone playback

Seth E — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 23:37:03 -0000

Are you ever going to do another whiteboard video? Screw Valleywag!(I'm glad you called them out during the Fbook panel). I think they're great(the videos). And informative. And fun. Do another one. Suggested topic: How to get your blogstats to look like my blog stats.

Re: The you-don’t-need-more-friends lobby

Seth E — Sun, 14 Oct 2007 13:12:02 -0000

I know you've interviewed the Facebook folks before, somehow I always thought you could just, well, "ask" them to increase your limit. But, then again, I also assumed you were the only one to ever reach it, which, as you point out, isn't the case. I guess the answer, like the answer to Twitter's "upgrading", is for these services to get bought by someone big, evil, and competent (like, uh, Microsoft).

Re: The you-don’t-need-more-friends lobby

Seth E — Sun, 14 Oct 2007 13:15:48 -0000

Also, couldn't you just start a "Scoble University" Network, so those of us in your queue could at-least access your page?

Re: How many Google Reader subscribers do you have?

Seth E — Sun, 14 Oct 2007 19:58:51 -0000

My blog says "Unknown". So, the way I see it, it's either 0 or 100,000,000 (and, of course, I'm leaning towards the latter). And, although I'm a tech person, I have to admit to not always "getting" feedburner's counting system (subscriber vs. live hits etc).

Re: New PR Trend: Anti-Gaming TechMeme?

Seth E — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 14:19:44 -0000

Isn't this the same issue that you brought up with Google a couple months ago(see 'Scoble doesn't know what he's talking about etc.')? When you think about it, SEOing is new, while infiltrating "social graphs" is the game PR people have been playing since the stone-age. I wish TM would would use a little more discretion and a little less algorithim.

Re: iPhone SDK is coming…

Seth E — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 13:11:59 -0000

I wonder if this is in-spite of everyone's complaints or because of them. If it's the latter then it proves that bloggers can--together-- be more powerful then even the mighty Steve Jobs (who I somehow doubt came up with the idea himself).

Re: FeedPressure

Seth E — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 15:11:38 -0000

What exactly does a fella need to do to get on your linkblog?

Re: iPhone SDK is coming…

Seth E — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 15:20:27 -0000

@Levi: Good point, I'd already forgotten about that episode :-). Opening up the phone is a significantly bigger deal, but that "rebate" was certainly a precusor

@project: I'm aware of what Steve Jobs has said, but then I'd sure like to know what the big security developments have been between early summer and now. Furthermore, one can hardly deny that Apple, through much of it's history, hasn't been very "pro" open-source. I'm simply saying that what happening with the iPhone is a significant step in the right direction, one that has a lot to do with the web's massive "suggestion box"-like functionality.

Re: TechCrunch, Valleywag, and Engadget teach us about new metrics

Seth E — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 17:02:53 -0000

Yes, the whiteboard is back! Because online friends don't let online friends read Valleywag.

Re: China blocks search engines…(or not, according to Blognation)

Seth E — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 12:08:38 -0000

Although I wonder what's worse: China blocking all search engines or China allowing search engines (ie Google) so long as they do China's censoring for them. In the second case, we (America et al.) are PARTICIPATING in the censorship which so far most of our companies have been more then willing to comply with.

Re: China blocks search engines…(or not, according to Blognation)

Seth E — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 12:37:16 -0000

@chris They're not taking away the freedom of their consumers, they're taking away the freedom of their people.

Re: A new way to surf the New York Times

Seth E — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 09:18:20 -0000

I really have grown to love Dave (in the meta sense). He's always putting together cool stuff just, it seems, for the sake of putting together (and sharing) cool stuff. Also, I suggested @Flickr that he rearrange it alphabetically instead of by frequency and, thus, it was done. Awesome. I really have switched camps in a certain undeclared blog war.

Re: Christian Perry: master tech conf promoter

Seth E — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 12:38:41 -0000

I like the Upcoming list even more then the linkblog. It's awesome (that is, if you have a strange need to leave the house every now and then.) I've gone to so many great things already, right here in NYC! (met some swell folks too)

Re: Google Page Rank is dead and has been for quite some time

Seth E — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 16:09:10 -0000

I just want to be high up for my niche. If someone does a search for "micro-fiction", I want to be on the front page because so far everyone who has found me via Google this way (I think I'm three pages in) has become a 'reader'. Likewise, I wish I'd stopping showing up high on searches that have nothing to do with my site, but just happen to be the right combination of words; I always want to tell people who this way: 'sorry, that I don't have what you want.

Re: Bloglines shows me the latest in RSS feed readers

Seth E — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 10:43:29 -0000

Folders are nice, but Google Reader now goes offline (via Gears). Until Bloglines does that, there's no real hope of me switching.

Re: Maryam…

Seth E — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 08:59:42 -0000

Methinks this is almost written in verse. Wonderful!

Re: Google Android: we want developers but…

Seth E — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 12:32:56 -0000

Their problem is that it seems like they're building a phone aimed primarily at 'techies' (i.e. opensource everything but unintiuitive as far as basic functioning goes) and yet their marketing strategy seems to be aimed at the average consumer, if not the down-right uniformed consumer. However, I think I disagree with you on it being 'Vaporware'. They seem to being trying to avoid the accusations thrown at Apple by releasing the SDK BEFORE the platform and not months afterwards, so it's hard for them to show you anything since I doubt much of it is implemented. But it was definitely a god-awful video.

Re: The “Android” of Journalism…

Seth E — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 14:32:20 -0000

Wait, so today you can yell back at the *idiot*? :)

Really, though, I don't think it's THAT controversial. A lot of people seem unimpressed and your one of the few, on either side, who stated actual reasons other then 'it's open source...' You have to remember how excited everyone's been about this, it's tough sometimes to look at it logically.

Re: “What’s your audience size?” is wrong question

Seth E — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 13:57:57 -0000

Also, unfortunately, we can't forget affluence. Car companies make tailored ads for LOGO (the gay channel), which has rather tiny audience. Why spend money on unique ads then? Because LOGO's small audience has a lot more disposable income than, say, the Country Music Channel's large audience.

Re: Mike Arrington’s dream team has wrong goal

Seth E — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 16:32:09 -0000

Robert, I think, despite the nitpicking of others, your historical assessment is essentially true and reaches far beyond just blogging. The moon mission, as some have pointed out, cannot be detached from the politics of it's era, but to see it was only 'Us vs. Them' is both wrong and paints a rather petty, and inaccurate, view of our country. If Kennedy had said "Let's go beat some Commies!" we would have had a space program whose only ardent supporters would have been the John Birch Society. Was there an underlying need to get there before 'them'? Sure. But if sold that way it would have been dead on arrival.
Hate and the need to dominate may offer short bursts of energy or small sparks to light fires, but they can't 'sustain' them. Pettiness and small-thinking have never, as far as I know, led to anything but petty and small outcomes.