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10 months ago

in Friday Afternoon Is Bad News Time on A VC
glad it's just the Fed that likes to release bad news on Friday afternoon, else I don't know what we'd do. i mean, it's not like this has been a pattern for the last, say, umpteen years. it's not like any other agency dumps documents on Friday afternoon. it's not like the Democrats do it, because, well, if they did, it'd be a whole different ballgame. I mean, i know obama would never do anything like that. it's not like the US government is trying to cover anything up. i mean, it's not like the US government is trying to subvert democracy or anything. you'd probably have to be one of those crazy anarchists to think that. and if that was the case, you'd probably be rotting in a Shanghai, i mean, St. Paul jail right now - so no need to worry about you. i have a lot of faith in the good 'ol us of a. yep. they say it, and i spray it. that's my job.

11 months ago

in War of the Wikis: Unversity of Wisconsin uses wiki collaboration to help troops in Iraq escape attack on Wikinomics
It's awesome that we can use wiki software to help American troops kill more Iraqi civilians. I mean, if Iraqi troops were occupying my neighborhood, _I_ would be an insurgent, and I'd kill every single one of those Iraqi troops that I possibly could.

And if those Iraqi occupation forces had PBWiki to help them coordinate their attacks on my and my family, well then that's just tough noogies on me and my family, ain't it?

Go PBWiki!

Helping Americans kills Iraqis since 2008 - at least.

12 months ago

in Thinking About Obama on A VC
i agree completely. we have to keep the troops in no matter what - it's a matter of national pride. and besides, it's complicated. you can't just pull the troops out because that would be bad. or something.

1 year ago

in Wikipedia front page gets it right…and a shameless plug on Wikinomics
i gotta try that whole 'sneak onto a rooftop so we can figure out best how to burn tens of thousands of civilians alive' thing. maybe i can be 'cool' too.

1 year ago

in 100 Comments or Bust on A VC
or you could just label them 'Most Active'. that's pretty common.

1 year ago

in Velib Is Awesome on A VC
The 'free market' does not exist. What does exist does not have a tendency towards 'the public good'.

1 year ago

in A Commenter’s Rights on DISQUS Blog and Forum
quitdis.

1 year ago

in Data Portability Evangelists Get Out of Line on Social Times
data portability matters to a lot more people than these few raving ego-maniacal lunatics. the difference is, these lunatics only care about it because they think it'll help them make money; other people care about it because it could potentially help society.

1 year ago

in 2008/05/07/jangl-whole-story/ on Mashable - The Social Media Guide
i don't know who any of those people are. is it necessary to follow this blog for a few years to know who these folks are?

and what's the take-away? what is this dire warning thing? that startups fail? that failing sucks? that VCs aim to make money? that we're supposed to see wise business decisions by potential acquirers as bad because they don't make our friends rich?

i don't get it.
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AppleJacks I agree with Peter... I don't get it. Not sure what's so cautionary about this. Start-ups fail and sometimes it really is because the business plan wasn't strong enough. Sometimes the execution was just plain poor. Sometimes the bosses sucked and didn't treat their employees the way they should have. And maybe the management decisions really were worth questioning, which could be why so many employees became disgruntled? This would be especially true at start-ups where those first employees took big paycuts in the hopes of being a part of something big. Maybe the potential acquirers knew something that you didn't and aren't going to tell you exactly why they don't want to acquire the company, especially if it means implying negative things about the company or people involved. If the numbers add up, there isn't much that can "poison" that. And, VCs will cut their losses like all good business people do when they see the chance of success diminish. Maybe they also know something that you don't and aren't going to tell you exactly why. There are so many reasons why a start-up can fail, and how does one know unless one was actually there for the whole thing? The PR folks can say whatever they want... they can make excuses and get folks to drink the kool aid. That's their job. It sounds like you've drank a little kool aid. Perhaps you shouldn't relate too much to this because *just a guess* there are things you probably don't know and couldn't possibly know unless you were there to bare witness.

1 year ago

in 2008/05/01/ebay-vs-craigslist-round-one-ebays-version/ on Mashable - The Social Media Guide
sh*t - if i want 'he said, she said' reporting without any context or opinion, i'll read the new york times.

wtf?
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Stan_Schroeder NYTimes is quite solid as far as newspapers go (;.

1 year ago

in 2008/04/30/daily-poll-is-a-good-browser-worth-money/ on Mashable - The Social Media Guide
Firefox needs to stop adding new trinkets and just concentrate on making the existing version work.

Less is more.

Free Firefox: free
Stable Firefox: $25

1 year ago

in 2008/04/30/are-you-frustrated-with-firefox/ on Mashable - The Social Media Guide
Firefox is an absolute disaster. it always has been.

it's the worst browser in existence, except for all the others.

IE has is ridiculously insecure, even for those who don't care about security.

Opera doesn't let you slide your mouse over to the right scroll bar appropriately - you have to 'bump off' the edge of the screen to actually get the scroll bar.

Maxthon will not not just crash your computer, it will outright murder it. Boom.

what's wrong with Firefox?

how about, what's _not_ wrong with it?

please Netscape or Godzilla or AOL or whoever runs firefox, _please_ charge me $25 for this software so you can make it actually work.

1 year ago

in 2008/04/20/six-apart-2/ on Mashable - The Social Media Guide
Sounds a bit on the disastrous side. Are you a software company, or an advertising company? Or a media company? Or just a mishmash?

I guess if the ship is sinking, it's best to do _something_ to try to stay afloat.

Unless you're sinking in quicksand, in which case you'll only drown quicker if you fight it.

1 year ago

in | Charles Hudson's Weblog on Charles Hudson's Blog
One obvious answer is 'brand advertising'. When Ford shows you their latest travesty in a commercial, they're not expecting you to click through and purchase it online - they're branding. Google's been working on building their branding advertising initiatives for years, now.

Another answer is that all reviews started out as being unwelcome on the net. Companies like http://www.bazaarvoice/ seem to be having a go a recommendations and reviews, and they're someone convincing folks that this is a good thing. I think there's every reason to believe that Facebook could take over the role of a Bazaarvoice in the 'social graph'.

I think the technical details are not so difficult. What could be difficult is more advertiser-related talk than I know about - things like crappy CPMs at sites like YouTube, etc. There are probably some good reasons for those low rates, but I haven't seen any convincing explanations in the tech blogosphere that I inhabit.

1 year ago

in Era of blogger’s control is over on Scobleizer
Bamn! I _knew_ a good idea had to come out of this somehow. The Twitter-like 140-character comment character limit sounds like an idea we should _defi...

1 year ago

in Duncan Riley: Lessons in diplomacy on Mathew's comments
Duncan Riley is a fuckin asshole - despite being an Aussie.

Aussie Aussie Aussie - disown that loser!

and what is it with all the us vs. them language? trying to rally people to your side based on some wack nationalism? isn't that a bit totalitarian?

"He's trying to _destroy_ me!"

kid sounds like a daytime soap opera.

Dude thinks he can bust out with the anti-woman language, too, and not be challenged for it. Who is this fool?

Dare step to to God - blogger for the mighty Techcrunch? I'll show you! I'm mean, I swear, I'll fight - I finish you - shrimps on the barbie and shit. Loser.

We got George Bush and Dennis Miller. Oz has John Howard and Duncan Riley.

Oz is still my favorite place. Out.
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StevenHodson don't worry SheGeeks has challenged him quite nicely for the anti-woman language http://corvida.ilumine.net/pumpkin-duncan-riley...

1 year ago

in Paul Addis Arrested, Planned To Set Fire To Grace Cathedral on Laughing Squid
"so I don’t think it’s just some firecrackers, as some of his diehard fans might like to believe."

cops lie all the time. they shoot a black guy in the back and then say they saw him reaching into his pocket for a gun, and a gun is never found, of course. and then they find bullet holes in the bottom of the victim's feet. or the victim ends up with his intestines shredded by police batons.

cops will kick your ass and then charge you with resisting or assaulting. they're gods walking the streets. they are rarely if ever punished for their various crimes - rapes, murders, sexual assaults of various kinds, you name it. there is no effective oversight.

i.e., to suggest that cops/the DA/the government would not levy outrageous charges against someone just because they can has no basis in fact.

any google news search will find countless examples - from the duke prosecutor (who was only caught b/c he tried to prosecute rich people) to the u.s. government's trumped up case against the muslim charity that was just declared a mistrial because the 'evidence' was laughable.

it's time for some perspective:
http://www3.sympatico.ca/ron666/bcnd.html

just take a listen to anyone of these and you'll start to get a feel for how widespread police terrorism is:
http://tinyurl.com/2zzyld

take a look at the innocence project to see how cops, da's, and judges work together to throw innocent people in jail, and keep them there even after they're proven innocent:
http://www.innocenceproject.org/

in fact, you don't have to go any further than this blog to see what could be just another example of police criminality:
http://laughingsquid.com/dna-evidence-proves-in...

1 year ago

in Paul Addis Arrested, Planned To Set Fire To Grace Cathedral on Laughing Squid
i'm not a big fan of one-sided stories based on next to nothing. we know he was arrested, but everything else is complete conjecture. what's the point?

i didn't know that 'small explosives' (aka, 'firecrackers') were a good way to burn a stone church down. silly me.

if i didn't know any better, i'd think this press-release-as-news-story was written by Donald Rumsfeld himself. Only the Pentagon could be this incompetent.

1 year ago

in 2007/05/04/gadget-ads/ on Mashable - The Social Media Guide
one step closer to my awesome idea of self-directed advertising.

1 year ago

in ZingFu Ignores Creative Commons Licences on Photos on Laughing Squid
startups will behave like startups. that said, the main problem, i'm guessing, is edumacation. licenses and licensing are extraordinarily complex, so the solution for most people is to just ignore any/all copyright.if the new generation grows up having some clue as to what CC is all about, maybe an attribution won't be far away.

http://www.attributor.com/

there are lots of other technological things that can and will happen - hopefully companies like attributor can help. (no affiliation)

maybe microformats or something like it can help - a little 'attribution' descriptor element embedded in the image itself would be cool, too - like modifying the png header format or something geeky like that.

1 year ago

in Burning Man 2008 Art Theme: American Dream | Laughing Squid on Laughing Squid
i'll save my outrage until i find out for sure that this is not a prank.

i've already heard so many good stories from this burning man that i'm sure to attend 2008 - or, i _was_ sure to attend. there is _no_ room for nation-state worship at burning man.
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