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Re: erewrq

James Gross — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 09:18:49 -0000

This is a great video. I wish I could live by his principles.

Re: Influencers

James Gross — Mon, 28 Nov 2005 19:54:44 -0000

Buzz-

I would love a copy, I would also like you to comment on some of those other illustrations. I used to work in the newspaper industry, I'll believe you.

Re: Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish

James Gross — Wed, 25 Jan 2006 18:05:34 -0000

Who said anything about a miracle? One would have to associate Jesus with miracles which I am certainly not. But I like the algorithm ;)

That being said, Disney's business/culture issues run a lot deeper than making cute movies. You have a disheveled board, a family with a lot of influence, Michael Eisner once worked for your company, a stock that hasn't moved in 10 years, piracy, Pixar didn't come cheap, new players in the market, blah, blah, blah.

Jobs is the man, and I'm not even sure what kind of power he will weild over the board, but he now owns a lot of Disney stock. I can't imagine he will stay quiet for long.

Is Buddha ok?

Re: Watching Sports

James Gross — Thu, 02 Feb 2006 13:33:33 -0000

I want that moment with you Joe. You can run, but you can't run from love. ;)

As you requested......

Definitions of irony on the Web:

* sarcasm: witty language used to convey insults or scorn; "he used sarcasm to upset his opponent"; "irony is wasted on the stupid"; "Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own"--Jonathan Swift
* incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs; "the irony of Ireland's copying the nation she most hated"
* a trope that involves incongruity between what is expected and what occurs
wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn

* Irony is a form of speech in which the real meaning is concealed or contradicted by the words used. Irony involves the perception that things are not what they are said to be or what they seem. Dramatic irony lies in the audience's deeper perceptions of a coming fate, which contrast with a character's lack of knowledge about said fate. A common metaphor for using irony is to "have your tongue in cheek".
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irony

* A meaning (often contradictory) concealed behind the apparent meaning of a word or phrase.
odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/LIT/chap10.htm

* A contrast or an incongruity between what is stated and what is really meant, or between what is expected to happen and what actually does happen. Two kinds of irony are: 1) verbal irony, in which a writer or speaker says one thing and means something entirely different; and 2) dramatic irony in which a reader or audience member perceives something that a character in the story does not
library.thinkquest.org/23846/library/terms/

* A contradiction or incongruity. (Compare ambiguity.) In literature, irony often falls into one of three categories. "Verbal Irony" occurs when words mean in context the opposite of what they say considered by themselves. "Situational Irony" occurs when one event is expected by another oppositional event occurs. ...
www2.cumberlandcollege.edu/acad/english/litcritweb/glossary.htm

Re: Ritual is a Mac Haven

James Gross — Sun, 05 Feb 2006 12:57:04 -0000

Little too heavy on the THC Rachie, you are SO uber-paranoid.

The image is simply a cup with a star. The star symbolizing the pursuit of the perfect cup of coffee, much like those three wise dudes following the star to that cute, born out of wedlock, baby.

Still fighting terrar. ;)

Love
James

Re: Ritual is a Mac Haven

James Gross — Sun, 05 Feb 2006 23:44:25 -0000

Matthew 7:1

Judge not, that ye be not judged.

Still loving
James

Re: Ritual is a Mac Haven

James Gross — Mon, 06 Feb 2006 00:31:18 -0000

Easy on the WitchHunt. Labeling is how the real bad guys get away.

Re: MySpace Data

James Gross — Wed, 08 Feb 2006 13:37:39 -0000

Never thought I would see the day that Jonas "Class Clown" Knox would be commenting on my site. But after six years someone has dropped that title and just happens to be the sexiest thing on two feet in T.O.

I agree with you Joanie, time is the most important piece of life, and way too much of it is used on worthless trolling of the net. But at the same time, social networks do allow a safer, more effective means of communication for some introverts, anti-socialites, and people that don't have lot of time to go out. We are not all Don Juan reborn on Burry Circle.

The real issue is no one is doing the social networks right. And time, my friend, is the greatest piece of any evolving disruptive technology. It just takes time. :)

Re: The New Blogger Disclaimer

James Gross — Wed, 15 Feb 2006 17:42:56 -0000

Hope that helps.

Re: Friday

James Gross — Fri, 17 Feb 2006 20:05:25 -0000

Man that was back when anabolic steroids meant something. Just don't let Ron know and tell Holly I said hi.

Re: Canon Optura 500 for sale

James Gross — Thu, 23 Feb 2006 10:56:53 -0000

From my test it is not working. The tags are set up just like they were instructed to be. Any advice?

Re: Back From LALA Land

James Gross — Tue, 07 Mar 2006 19:45:34 -0000

There is a lot to be discussed about exactly what the blogosphere is and where it is going. The real issue is finding an intelligent way to index everything and present it in a meaningful way.

Re: A Taxi Ride in Austin

James Gross — Thu, 16 Mar 2006 12:12:34 -0000

Ted Bundy was far more charismatic, and besides you are the one that looks like him.

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Re: Spam is Getting Prettier

James Gross — Tue, 04 Apr 2006 15:29:44 -0000

spam

Re: McClatchy showing ‘Net Sense’?

James Gross — Tue, 04 Apr 2006 20:34:17 -0000

hmmmm... not sure a hyperbole should be used to describe a direct quote.....

But that is not the point here and I actually think that Bambi is great.

"Eventually, you’ll get tired of writing for no one but yourself."

I guess I'm writing for you too Sill Boy. :)

James

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Re: Friendster Back

James Gross — Mon, 17 Apr 2006 14:44:58 -0000

You are absolutely right Scott, not disagreeing with you there, but with your direct example being the Phillippines I was just pointing out that Friendster *could* become a Phillippine social network. And that is something that would probably never get the boys at Kleiner their money back.

If they can focus on a having a distributed global social network, like you appropriately pointed out in your post(http://classifieds.friendster.com), they obviously wouldn't suffer the same fate, as say, an Orkut.

Not really trying to say that Orkut is dead or a bad product or anything, but when I think Orkut I think Brazil, and I can't imagine that was Google's "Global" intention.

Re: Why Austin is different than San Francisco

James Gross — Tue, 02 May 2006 21:52:51 -0000

Story of my life Dan. Always trying to hang with someone that knows something

Re: Vacation!

James Gross — Mon, 08 May 2006 16:09:48 -0000

Pic 1 is from the Julia Pfeiffer camground in Big Sur

Pics 2 and 3 are form the Monterey Bay Aquarium

Pic 4 is along the Central Coast of California about 30 miles south of Big Sur just off of Highway 1.

Re: Why do we still get phone books?

James Gross — Thu, 11 May 2006 15:10:40 -0000

This is a great point Griselda and actaully for the Yellow Pages the number is this:

1-888-BOOKS-65 call M-F from 8am to 8pm, Found via Fred

I guess the whole point is that we SHOULD be getting upset and not just do the simple call to get off the list. There is a huge toll here on all kinds of energy: tress, oil, time, etc.

I would argue it is time to get angry and stop just taking the easy way out.

Re: Apple and Google should partner up

James Gross — Fri, 12 May 2006 20:33:07 -0000

I am always interested in talking Howard. :)

You are spot on, in terms of delivering product, innovation, and talent, Google and Apple are really seperating themselves from the pack. And they are the perfect compliments for each other to take down MSFT. Apple still, at the end of the day, is a hardware firm and Google is proving to deliver software better than anybody.

I just hope CA realizes how important it is that they work with these technology companies to not only make sure that they stay in the state; but they should also be working on creative ways to get tools in the hands of the next generation, so that CA can continue to thrive.

Re: Pearl Jam Releases Video Under Creative Commons

James Gross — Tue, 23 May 2006 02:09:13 -0000

Yeah I can't wait! The concert is on July 15th.

Re: Sphere It! Service, Search Engines, Blog Syndication, and Blah

James Gross — Wed, 24 May 2006 12:01:53 -0000

I agree with you Marshall, but you are an advanced techie, not the average internet browser. This post was more about showing how these companies are going to make money right now, and the current business behind consumers searching and subscribing is worth next to nothing.

Trying to subscribe to a search on technorati is nearly impossible, why? Because they don't want you too. They want you coming back to the site, uploading your OPML(favorites?) there, and having your "watchlists" on site.

I think that Technorati's newest announcement this morning is spot-on to where their product is shifting. They can sell syndication to content portals or the JIT alerts/communication relationship to the enterprise, like they are doing with Edelman, but for the average internet browser the play looks to be more and more like a blog directory/community.

Re: Sphere It! Service, Search Engines, Blog Syndication, and Blah

James Gross — Thu, 25 May 2006 13:37:43 -0000

Thanks for the comment Scott. To address your points.

1. I understand the need to develop the index with some "tricky math" but i don't believe the underlying content archive is an issue.

2. Totally agreed about spam finding any viable source. But Feedburner has a gatekeeper. The 'index' would not be formed around unknown pings from 'naked' feeds, they have the content centralized(Feedburner feeds only), and the goal would never be to 'index', in this case, the whole blogosphere. The ability to discriminate is key here.

3. Agreed

4. I am just going off what I have seen and read so far, which is admittedly limited. I guess the person to ask would be Tony. :)

Re: Ask.com Launches Blog Search

James Gross — Thu, 01 Jun 2006 12:51:36 -0000

*nods*

With Fletcher coming out and saying, "The challenge is to create world-class blog search, which we don't think exists now."

If this is more than PR fodder they should have thought about this already and have something in place.

Re: Killaz

James Gross — Thu, 15 Jun 2006 12:34:13 -0000

This really has nothing to do with disclosures, merely a follow up to my post about Blake Ross' fantastic article.

Please dont mistake the use of satire to prove a point with malice towards the subject(s) involved.

In regards to #1, well, I hope you know me better than that.

Re: An Inconvenient Truth

James Gross — Mon, 19 Jun 2006 23:44:23 -0000

Yeah removed the whole *costs* part, but it does stink. More importantly, did you just call me a natch? Which kind of a natch are you referring too?

You urban dictionary loser. :)

Re: Needing a Roommate

James Gross — Sun, 09 Jul 2006 23:12:08 -0000

Never! :)

Re: WordPress Conference

James Gross — Tue, 11 Jul 2006 12:54:43 -0000

er, this is true..

Re: Making Sense of all the Data

James Gross — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 09:38:24 -0000

Sounds good, just dont tell Chas.

Re: Robbers on Craigslist trying to ruin it for everyone

James Gross — Tue, 25 Jul 2006 18:32:42 -0000

yeah, fraud on CL stinks for everyone. Restrictions are terrible as well, but I think that is the way everything is going.

Re: Nik from the Gong

James Gross — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 16:31:00 -0000

Right on Nik! Good to hear from you, these blogs provide such good connecting platforms. :P

TC party should be fun.....

Re: I want one

James Gross — Fri, 04 Aug 2006 13:50:50 -0000

Awesome points dude!

Re: Birds Over the Bridge

James Gross — Mon, 07 Aug 2006 01:21:21 -0000

Thanks Kip and welcome aboard.

Re: Future of Web Apps Conference

James Gross — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 17:40:56 -0000

Not a bad point Joe-Joe.

The future of the web is not a bunch of white boys on macs.

Apple is lost in this fascination, and so are the white boys that really feel they are the only ones creating the web.

To counter your point on price: Fortunately or unfortunately, depending on how you look at it. The personal computer is becoming the most important piece of equipment in a person\'s life, leaving the OralB in it\'s dust.

At some point you do need to pay for quality. It is hard to appropriately value such an important piece of equipment merely on a price tag.

Take for instance a pop-up. How many have you closed in your life? How much time have you wasted re-installing, rebooting, or runnning virus scanning equipment on Windows.

How much is that time worth? There is a price tag there as well.

Re: Places to Jam

James Gross — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 10:10:57 -0000

No. :)

Re: Communication

James Gross — Sat, 10 May 2008 09:29:34 -0000

Some heavy stuff here Mr. Cohn. I was talking with Teresa Neilsen-Hayden (see:--> http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/) and she brought up the interesting patterns she sees in communication being the moderator of BoingBoing. Crazy to think of the output you get when people have tools to communicate and meet like-minded nodes.

Re: Brands are….

James Gross — Tue, 13 May 2008 20:40:21 -0000

No, but that is a good guess.

Re: Brands are….

James Gross — Wed, 14 May 2008 00:41:51 -0000

How is it obviously Amazon? I think that it is a good sign if it is fairly obvious. It almost shows that a small cluster of words can immediately differentiate one brand from another.

I just took a screenshot of B through E to try and not giveaway obvious tags like Amazon or JeffBezos.

I did also notice that in that screenshot there is a tag for EC2, I guess that gives it away pretty quickly to someone familiar with the Amazon brand.

Re: Brands are….

James Gross — Wed, 14 May 2008 14:34:16 -0000

I would definitely think that Amazon would be happy with how their page is shaping up. The biggest thing that could happen for Brand Tags is it will go mainstream and you will really get a sense for what people *really* think of brands. Right now, it is in that early adopter/Digg home page phase of, "oh my God Ron Paul is going to win the Presidency, and Mac's have 90% market share!"

What is interesting from the current data is brands that were born on the web or have made a significant investment in the web; seem to be talked about and thought of far more favorably.

Re: Media

James Gross — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 18:29:51 -0000

Oh i get it. So the user generally wants to see the same standard flash ads that they can't interact with. Who would want to see the actual creation of art from multiple participants through banners; just give me the message already!

Re: Email Great Medium For Reaching Old, Stupid People

James Gross — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 17:13:11 -0000

I agree with you Ben, when there is a customer relationship(a real one, not one where you accidentally checked a box), email offers a great way to not only fulfill but also create demand. Amazon does an amazing job for me with fulfilling and in creating demand with the emails that I get from them. They are not perfect, but they are good enough that I don't mind them when they are off.

To your point Michael to focus on email to create or even fulfill demand when it wasn't asked for, is a bad way to spend time and money.

Re: Email Great Medium For Reaching Old, Stupid People

James Gross — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 17:13:11 -0000

Re: Piclens And Brainstorm: The Future Is Now

James Gross — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 20:21:51 -0000

Good new ideas have to come from past experiences.

"Everybody experiences far more than he understands. Yet it is experience, rather than understanding, that influences behavior"

Piclens is great, use it on the big screen via HDMI.

Re: Piclens And Brainstorm: The Future Is Now

James Gross — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 20:21:51 -0000

Re: Three Photo Editing Tools to Check Out

James Gross — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 12:31:26 -0000

Skitch is awesome. Changed the way I work with .ppt.

Re: American Express is OPEN

James Gross — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 08:26:58 -0000

Hi Chris- Thanks for the write up and your insight on the site. I am glad that it got in front of your community.

@Dr Wright- The article you reference by Anita Campbell is a great read for any blogger. It is more about your rights as a blogger and what you need to know based on the latest legal action taken by the AP.

@ Josh- We worked with Digitas New York on this project. They were instrumental from the very beginning and have been a great partner.

@Darren- You can absolutely link back to your own site when leaving a comment; the field is right under name and email on every post. FWIW, trackbacks are also enabled to help further identify and link out to the conversation.