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Re: Associated Press: In a hole, still digging

mathewi — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 23:09:05 -0000

Contrarian as always, Paul :-) And I would agree, provided there's a
genuine issue of competition or injury to their ability to sell the
content. But do you really think that's the case with something like
the Drudge Retort?

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.

Re: Hey Jerry: Welcome to the big-time

mathewi — Wed, 14 May 2008 03:07:05 -0000

Damn, I was hoping you wouldn't notice that, Paul. Think of it as an
"homage." I think that's French for "copycat." :-)

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: eBay and Craigslist: A fox in the henhouse

mathewi — Thu, 01 May 2008 03:09:04 -0000

I agree, Paul -- but certain legal friends of mine disagree :-)

They say a true poison pill is used to prevent a public company from
being taken over, and they argue that that can't possibly happen in
this case because Jim and Craig control the company. All Craigslist
is really trying to do is prevent eBay from selling to someone other
than them.

My argument is that saying "poison pill," while not strictly correct,
is a lot easier than saying "a dilutive shareholders' rights agreement
that floods the company with cheap stock as a way of trying to prevent
someone from doing something involving the shares."

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

mathewi — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 03:52:03 -0000

Aren't we though? :-)

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: Fred is right and Rupert is wrong

mathewi — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 04:30:02 -0000

Yeah, it does sound as though the free content is going to be expanded --
which makes it kind of odd that the Journal would play the story the way it
did. Maybe Rupe is trying to have his cake and eat it too with the story
about the story :-)

If it's just the Dow wire and DJNR and all that behind the wall then I don't
care as much. But do we know that there's no regular newspaper (i.e.,
non-data) stuff staying behind the wall?

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: Please God, no more pop-up links

mathewi — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 20:47:02 -0000

I kind of like the ability to find Creative Commons images and other
content -- to embed in the post, that is. Put it in as a text-link
popup and your blog is dead to me :-)

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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.