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The notion of a high-tech early-adopter has been fractured, which compounds the problem. Gone are the days when a group can follow the Christensen playbook to achieve adoption amongst early-adopters and use them to traverse into the bigger markets.

We live in interesting times.

awesome, thanks for sharing this. did you read umair's post exploring how to save detroit? a few comments talked about similar things to the trend that you point out.

Looking forward to listening to this. See you in a few days.

A great call to that old friend to recount hilarious stories. A long drive on the highway with the window down and music up. A brutally long run.

Or, what I just did - a trip home to surround yourself with family, friends and familiarity.

I was hoping someone would make the joke about a plane to catch.

Should have asked him why Madden 2001 sucked so much.

lol. that had me laughing for a few minutes. subtle. clever. kuddos.

it appears that my bad spelling led you down a bad path. check out this link: http://tinyurl.com/4lluum

Hint: think of pokaroo (or is that a Canadian thing?)

Adam, where are you located again? How many opportunities will you have to debate face-to-face with a group like this? I saw how much you spent on Lincoln Park... consider this an investment!

Do comments work? I should have also added that there will be a surprise out-of-town guest appearance. As if you needed any more incentive.

uniques may be growing normally through those other channels but I wonder what's happening to engagement/usage. I definitely bookmark a lot less to delicious than I used to (many other channels for saving/sharing content - tumblr, facebook, twitter, ...). I suspect you do as well as do many other long-time users of the service.

would be interesting to see a graph of bookmarks/week over time

You're welcome Jon. I hope the new users appreciate being highlighted and getting a bit of new traffic to their site.

I have a 13" TV in the place that I'm subrenting; maybe I'll hold off on seeing the movie until I find a better way to enjoy flicks.

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(hey, no letting other people's comment bias your response! :) you're reading a blog, you see this cool looking thing in the sidebar and you want it; other comments are nowhere to be seen)

From what I've heard from many music fans, the cultural attachment to possessing music (probably the same trait that in the extreme drives one to collect 3 gazillion songs) has been the major impediment to music dial-tone.

It's not a question of whether they'd hoard if they had access, but that they're resisting streaming because they hoard.

Steffan, I think you should look at the calendar again ;)

@Fraser - Way to comment 5 minutes after I posted! Sorry for not approving the comment until April 2. So the April fools Gmail Rant experiment wasn't that great of a success. Bummer. Only 1 comment (other than yours) and a spike to 111 unique visitors - not exactly my best day. People were not fooled at all - in fact, I don't even have any significant outgoing stats to the Gmail Custom Time page. People weren't even curious. They knew about it, dismissed it and moved right on. I did get one additional subscriber and a twitter follower though. hahah. I'll post the stats in an hour or so.

I'd consider this offer long and hard.

Well said! I wannabe a better wannabe. That should be on everyone's to-do list. Thanks for the inspiration.

When I think of my favorite blogs over the years I rarely recall the posts. It's all about the discussion. Chartreuse's site is the perfect example of this. Sometimes I wonder what Seth's site would be like if he enabled comments.

Both of these posts, made me laugh. Mathew, great response.

Mini-Lindy. Yes, shameful that that's the best I could come up with.

"Let’s face it — the biggest problem with the Semantic Web is that it’s as boring as dry toast"

Couldn't agree with you more on this Mathew, although I think you're being polite by comparing it to dry toast. No individual - outside of those who are active in the Semantic Web community - is interested in the plumbing. It's what the plumbing can enable and deliver that will be exciting. The 'magic', so to speak.

I suspect that the magic isn't going to come from semantic search but will come from contextual browsing - understanding the users context and presenting them with (personalized) next steps to directly access relevant and meaningful information.

By the way - I should also add that when you install SmartLinks you get a stats dashboard. It shows not only the objects that are most popular on your site but also includes the Web Wide Popularity Dashboard that allows you to discover the most popular items online.

Glad you like them :) Not only are they simple to install but SmartLinks aren't inserted in the post unless we recognize the object. This means they'll only appear when they can deliver benefit to you and your readers.

We had a friend of the company, Anne, nicely describe the benefit of SmartLinks as "reaching across the Internet to pull everything together about the object" and making it all available directly from the site. I thought that was a nice way to put it.

Pairing that with the concept of 'exploding the link' is, as you say, a big deal.

If anyone has any questions on this or would like some help setting it up on their site drop me a note: fraserkelton at the gmail.com

And across the web, they're the 8th most clicked artist SmartLink right now - definitely a hot band!

I sense a new addiction coming on. Thank you Fred (and Fred). Just buying the EP from Amazon's music service.