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ophelia_chong True. It's dressing up the same cow with different outfits, but you are getting the same milk.

As you break down the "differences" between sites, you further dilute the message and decrease the size of your audience.

ie:
plain milk - lots of people
chocolate milk - kids and some adults
strawberry milk - weird kids and some weird adults
mocha choco milk - buying group getting smaller
strawberry choco frappe milk - minimal

and so on.

:O) thanks for commenting!

sbspalding Roger on that one Maggy. It's weird to think of when you're in the thick of it, but the vast majority of people aren't interested in tech per-say. They are interested in the "stuff tech does for them."

The question is how to make it easy for them to get the latter without having to think too hard about the former.

ophelia_chong Not filling out a quiz for an online dating site would be interesting. Could we go by just an image and screen name?

Emily did get to the last page on the search for kitten images. She was determined to show me that she could and would send me the last image. And of course it was a pair of cute kittens.

The other universe is full of flying kittens, pop stars and kids falling off skateboards. I'm stayin on this side of the line. ;O)

sbspalding So true, everything exists -- in general it's not about building it first it's about building it best.

Greg Hollingsworth This post was intended to highlight the issues in China specifically, although those issues are certianly not limited to China. Citizen journalism always has the potential to be dangerous, especially overseas.

ophelia_chong You are right about going back to a simpler existence. What if we could all work from home, and tend to our gardens during short breaks from the computer? That's what I do now. Instead of driving to an office, I get up and walk down to the studio/office. I go out and water the plants after sending off files and look at the trees, watching them flower. I picked a few pounds of figs, and made jam. I have found my expenses have dropped since working at home rather than an office, no dry cleaning, no gas, no bought lunches. Pared down to cable, phone, internet.

Imagine if even 5% more people worked from home, the smog, the gas, the wear and tear on the roads.

The contents of my garage are a symbol of waste, of buying ever improving equipment to stay ahead.

I remember watching Gilligan's Island and being amazed at what they could do with a coconut. What could we do with limited resources? It remains to be seen, only when the tap gets turned off will the real geniuses of scarcity will surface.

sbspalding Just about the reaction I was looking for. :) The idea is that you can sell anything in the world, all that matters is how creative you are willing to be. Unless you are selling a cure for Cancer, at the end of the day you are -always- selling the packaging first and foremost.

sbspalding I rarely ever open unsolicited email these days, especially if the title doesn't make it completely obvious that it is not a scam. Everyone who sends me email for work/business I recognize (more or less), if it is a solicitation that breaks the mold you better have a good subject line.