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Re: I Love Amazon

Joe — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 06:48:30 -0000

That's funny; that's the same album I downloaded yesterday from Amazon yesterday. Good stuff

Re: The Declining Power Of The Firm

Joe — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 13:22:35 -0000

You might call me a moron -- I might call myself as such as well -- but I've always found Umair's writing to be borderline impenetrable. But as I said, I'm open to the possibility that its my own intelligence at stake, rather than his writing

Re: The Declining Power Of The Firm

Joe — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 13:25:59 -0000

I should add, however, that he does seem to be hitting on some important ideas.

Re: Delicious 2.0: Who bookmarks any more?

Joe — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 19:01:10 -0000

I've never gone back and looked at bookmarks in delicious. A few times I've tried to get into bookmarking items with a "toblog" tag or whatnot, just as a reminder to blog something. I've never blogged something that I've given that tag to, however.

For work, I keep a schedule of future earnings releases, so I have been using an "earnings" tag for purely utilitarian purposes, tagging releases that announce future earnings dates of public companies. It's so narrow and most of the time I'd have no purpose for it.

Having never visited the site itself, I can't remember... did the old Del.icio.us have a similar frontpage leaderboard, like the new one has?

It's kind of Digg-like looking and it confirms that the site really isn't mainstream at all. Like Digg and FriendFeed, it seems like another place to share links about technology.

Re: Conflicts of Interest

Joe — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 19:40:17 -0000

It's bizarre what constitutes a conflict of interest to some people. 9/10 times that's invoked it doesn't make any sense.

Re: Why I’m Not a Copyright Pessimist

Joe — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 22:56:21 -0000

The divergence you cite between law and actual behavior is right on. When I focus on all the idiotic laws that get passed in all kinds of areas I get really depressed. If the world really looked the way politicians would like to mold it, I'd want to plug myself into a morphine drip and never take it out.

I get a lot more optimistic on all kinds of things when I see how the world actually is.

Even with that though, the morphine drip sounds nice sometimes.

Re: Google’s Got Plenty of Compute Cycles

Joe — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 10:17:42 -0000

Thanks Tim. I think your broader elucidation of my point is spot on. This kind of mentality probably goes a long way to explaining why various open source/geeky projects haven't really taken off or proven as disruptive as they should be.

Firefox is obviously an exception to this, but it's not surprising, given stuff like the "Awesome Bar", which is all about making browsing simple enough for a total moron. Eventually I'll have to upgrade to FF3, but I tend to loathe any upgrades, so I'll wait awhile.

Re: The Technology Liberation Front » Archive » FCC Killing BitTorrent? Not Exactly

Joe — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 17:38:19 -0000

This post is a pretty solid takedown of the ValleyWag article, which is mainly an attempt to add a sensational narrative to the core story -- BitTorrent's layoffs.

That being said: Like a lot of folks, I really don't get the idea behind BitTorrent having its own retail media operation. If, as you say, they thought they had an advantage over Apple et. al. courtesy of lower bandwidth costs (on their end) then they're sorely mistaken. Users, obviously, don't give a pig's lick about the bandwidth cost of their provider. And so having a lower cost basis per GB is hardly a competitive advantage.

As for the layoffs, part of the problem facing their CDN-like business is their name: BitTorrent. Their natural customers -- major media companies delving online media -- associate BitTorrent with a system of piracy (fairly or unfairly). They have to spend energy getting their foot in the door -- explaining that it's not the same thing -- when other competitors in the p2p distro space don't have to.

Re: Jobs by subway line

Joe — Sun, 17 May 2009 02:18:44 -0000

I think something like this might already exist. If you do a google search for a Craigslist/Google Maps mashup it might be there. Of course, this isn't by subway line per say, but it least it's a map.

If not, it's a good idea, and definitely sounds feasible.

Re: Napateria

Joe — Mon, 18 May 2009 18:41:50 -0000

There are plenty of these already in existence.

But that only proves this is a good idea.

Re: Spoused

Joe — Thu, 21 May 2009 17:53:20 -0000

The guy could be Brad Pitt and the wife could be played by Angelina Jolie.

Oh wait, that'd be documentary.

Re: Why the Web Matters in the Viacom/Time Warner Fight

Joe — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 16:25:50 -0000

Couldn't you look at this the opposite way and say that the web advantages TWC?

Viacom's strategy seems predicated on TWC customers freaking out and demanding that the operator cave.

But if those customers have access to their favorite Viacom shows via the web, will they actually get as bent out of shape?

Re: Bolt Of Lightning Doesn't Fall Anywhere Near NBCOlympics.com

Joe — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 04:26:16 -0000

It was pretty irritating knowing for the last 15 hours what was going to happen... but still, I'm floored having just watched it on TV. That was ridiculous.