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Re: An expose on telecom bait-and-switch

Paul Kedrosky — Wed, 01 Feb 2006 07:47:22 -0000

Yeah, I was sort of interested as well, but the pre-release comments I've seen all make the point that this guy was a bystander. He was neither one of the criminal telecom analysts sorts, nor was he really privy to all that much good, juicy venality. Where's the fun in reading that?

Re: Why is everyone so down on Digg?

Paul Kedrosky — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 00:15:20 -0000

Mathew -- I'm assuming your question was rhetorical. Because the reason why people are down on Digg [Ed. Cheap alliteration!] is the obvious one: It's easy to be down on Digg.

Technologists don't like it because the underlying code is a hack (I get coders sending me sniffingly dismissive notes weekly about how easy it would be to do a Digg); and media sorts think Digg is declasse. After all, it's .... incoherent ... overly broad ... full of shock schlock ... and so on.

Put the two together, and you have duelling constituencies of noisy Digg dissers [Ed. Enough with the "ds" already!].

Re: Okay, now Dave is starting to scare me

Paul Kedrosky — Mon, 13 Mar 2006 05:00:31 -0000

Unfortunately, none of this is new. Go back over the annals of Dave Winer and you'll find he's done this sort of pity-me posturing before. Sad stuff.

Re: Competing without even trying to

Paul Kedrosky — Mon, 03 Apr 2006 04:26:31 -0000

You know what though? This is a fun story, but as I say over on my site in response to this NYT story, the self-congratulatory sorts leaving oodles of money on the table are being foolish. While leaving excess profits on the table may get you a little free publicity today, it guarantees tomorrow competitors who ape your model and do it faster, cheaper, and better.

Re: The battle of the homepages continues

Paul Kedrosky — Tue, 06 Jun 2006 04:41:34 -0000

Yup, I'm still with Netvibes too, and the main things keeping me there are the tabs and the four-column layout. As you say, not much of a barrier, but it'll do.

And Microsoft is getting better? Darn, just when I had written them off ... !

Re: Dave Winer calls John Dvorak a liar

Paul Kedrosky — Wed, 14 Jun 2006 02:20:01 -0000

Mathew -- I've never thought of you as a troll -- too pale a Toronto complexiion -- so it can't possibly be you that Winer is talking about. Gosh, there must be _more_ people who think his silly comment about Dvorak is asinine. Hard to imagine.

Re: Ad agency takes stake in Facebook

Paul Kedrosky — Sat, 24 Jun 2006 00:17:15 -0000

I hate to rain on this billion-dollar parade, but the $2-billion valuation is pretty dubious stuff. Dan Primack says that insiders tell him there is a big disconnect between the equity buy, the ad spending, and Facebook's valuation. How big? Dan's insider says the valuation is still sitting around $550m, where it was earlier this year.

Re: Nick Carr is right — sort of

Paul Kedrosky — Thu, 17 Aug 2006 03:12:49 -0000

I must be getting old or something. While Nick has gotten under many people's skin, including Mike Arrington's over on Crunchnotes, I can't even work up a lick of outrage at Nick's comments. Does that make me an "M-prime" lister?

Re: Want to date a math genius?

Paul Kedrosky — Wed, 30 Aug 2006 23:13:52 -0000

Mathew -- No, I'm the one buddies with Paris, and with the platinum album. I didn't want to say anything though. Too shy and retiring.

Re: MySpace worth more than NY Times?

Paul Kedrosky — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 23:47:33 -0000

You forgot to say, "And friend of Paul's". You have to love Jim. He's a flamethrower....

Re: A note about my love of widgets

Paul Kedrosky — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 03:47:45 -0000

Repeat after me: My Name is Mathew Ingram, and I am a recovering Widget Junkie.

Re: Reader is nice — I’m sticking with Netvibes

Paul Kedrosky — Fri, 29 Sep 2006 07:34:58 -0000

I have about 80 feeds in Netvibes, and it works great. I actually use both Netvibes and GReader: I use Greader mobile from my Treo in "river of news" form; I use Netvibes as my home page.

Would I go all Greader, all the time? I'm not there yet -- I like being able to scan a bunch of stuff really quickly in Netvibes, which is much harder to do in GReader. But I do like a mingled headline format (I hate the phrase "river of news") -- it reminds me of my broker days -- and I find myself doing that more and more.

Re: Reader is nice — I’m sticking with Netvibes

Paul Kedrosky — Fri, 29 Sep 2006 07:35:53 -0000

Why does your site keep forgetting who I am? It has a URL remembering problem.

Re: Who needs a TV network?

Paul Kedrosky — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 06:21:29 -0000

Leaving aside the merits of the decision, you Canadians need to get out more. Temecula is commuter country for San Diego, a mere 90-minute drive north-northeast.

Re: Please God, no more pop-up links

Paul Kedrosky — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 20:42:09 -0000

I'm tempted to add it just out of spite :-)

More seriously, this kind of thing can be highly useful if done tastefully and with fine-grained control over which things get tagged --but I don't get that sense yet on this one.

Re: Fred is right and Rupert is wrong

Paul Kedrosky — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 04:23:15 -0000

Surprised you tumbled for this one, my friend. As I pointed out earlier today on my site, the headline writers have the story backwards. Murdoch says he is he is greatly _expanding_ the free parts of the WSJ. sure, some things will remain premium and become more expensive, which is just another way of saying that the Dow wire, DJNR, and some data services won't be free. Zero surprise.

Re: Lacy and Mark Z: Train wreck or lynch mob?

Paul Kedrosky — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 03:35:43 -0000

You Canadians are sooo darn nice and even-handed.

Re: The REAL Problem with Mike Arrington and Robert Scoble…

Paul Kedrosky — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 20:12:19 -0000

Howard, my friend, you need to stop holding back so much in these posts. No-one will know what you mean :-)

Re: The Audience Prompter

Paul Kedrosky — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 00:30:13 -0000

Fred -- Have seen that at a number of conferences, most amusingly at one of Tony Perkins' event in Palo Alto. The on-stage speakers were savaged by the "back-channel", was truly something to behold. Only way to make it work was to eliminate anonymity. Otherwise was cluster-f**k.

Re: eBay and Craigslist: A fox in the henhouse

Paul Kedrosky — Thu, 01 May 2008 03:03:16 -0000

I'd still call this a poison pill. After all, from Craiglist's point of view Ebay definitely meets the criteria for being a hostile would-be acquirer.

Re: Hey Jerry: Welcome to the big-time

Paul Kedrosky — Wed, 14 May 2008 03:03:30 -0000

Hey, random Big Lebowski quotes in otherwise-unrelated blog posts is my character note.

Re: Associated Press: In a hole, still digging

Paul Kedrosky — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 21:30:32 -0000

Not to be all Nick Carr-ish about this, but I'm totally fine with AP's decision. It's their content, and they should feel free to coop it up however they see fit.

Do I think it's smart though? No.