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  • allen stern  if it's not free labor then how do you define free labor? and will seesmic be doing this type of localization as well?
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    •   Crowdsourced Translation Is Not Free Labor
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  • allen  and can i point you to something i wrote about a week ago: http://www.centernetworks.com/social-advertising-celeb-endorsements it's amazing how we talk about this - but look at celebrities - they will put their name on anything - do you think derek jeter really thinks gatorade is the best? of course not, it's the dollar bills ya'all.
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    •   Sponsorships and Blogger Hypocrisy
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  • allen stern  my friend - you aren't alone :) my deal is simple - when you come to CN, I want you to learn to trust me, and I want to trust you - it's a relationship we have - and I hope it's something that sets CN apart from other blogs. I may not have big traffic but I know that my readers trust that I won't make decisions that will harm or put them in a bad place. Maybe it's my background, who knows. I think too many big bloggers have forgotten who made them. I will never forget the following: you better be nice to people on the way up because you will see the same people on the way down. I've turned down plenty of sponsorships over the last 15 yrs, ones that would have made me a bit better off - instead I live with little money but know I am doing the right thing. They say that pays off in the end (i hope soon ha)
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    •   Sponsorships and Blogger Hypocrisy
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  •   allen  and can i point you to something i wrote about a week ago: http://www.centernetworks.com/social-advertising-celeb-endorsements it's amazing how we talk about this - but look at celebrities - they will put their name on anything - do you think derek jeter really thinks gatorade is the best? of course not, it's the dollar bills ya'all.
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  • allen stern  fred, if you login to the google trends (top right) - it will show you the numbers on those graphs.
  • • 1 month ago
    •   Checking Out Google Trends For Websites
    •   A VC
  •   fredwilson  Thanks allen That's very helpfull appreciate the tip Fred
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  • allen stern  The most important part is trust.
  • • 1 month ago
    •   Sponsorships and Blogger Hypocrisy
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  •   StevenHodson  I agree with you whole heartedly Allen but it sure seems that the impression being given is that if you aren't one of the big names in the business then your ethics and trust value are automatically suspect. In some cases I think it should be the other way around - but then that's me :)
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  • allen stern  WOW I am honored - you keep pumping out this great, well articulated content and you will pass me very soon! :) Great post - one note, on the sai/vb/rww/go chart, sai has one thing those others don't have - yahoo distribution.
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    •   Interesting Things Learned From Google Trends
    •   The Inquisitr
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  • allen stern  and this is the future - the parents laughing as the kid says bad words.
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  • allen stern  just linked you up in my latest video post http://www.centernetworks.com/content-scraping-make-money-online perhaps now people will start to see the value in my feed for a buck concept. i give you as an individual the right to read my content, i don't give you the right to take it and do whatever you please with it. free = partial pay = full simple as that my friend of course im sure you will give me some friendfeed argument back :-P
  • • 1 month ago
    •   louisgray.com: RSSmeme Creator Served With Legal Threat Over RSS Sharing
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  • allen stern  perfectly said bocajuniors.
  • • 1 month ago
    •   When Did Splogging Become a Business Model? Fav.or.it
    •   The Inquisitr
  •   BocaJuniors  Thanks, Allen. These are my first comments using Disqus (and first time commenting here on Inquisitr for that matter). I just noticed that the "em" italics show up fine on Inquisitr but not back on the Disqus site. Odd!
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  • allen stern  Robert - I believe you are wrong and I agree with Duncan. Look at this example - http://fav.or.it/post/115615 - what value has favorit added? None. Not only do they take the entire article, they are monetizing the content as if it was their own. There's a tiny link to the source (in this case mashable) but otherwise it looks like favorit created this content - which they didnt. Let's not even get into yet another place that has comments. Their tagline is "bringing blogging to the masses" - really have no idea what this means. You (or favorit) cannot compare this to any news reader - I am offering you as an individual to read my content through your news reader. I am in no way shape or form allowing these scrapers, spblogs whatever you want to call them, the right to take my content and profit off of it. It reminds me of the people in nyc who try to sell you a fake dvd copy for $5. Pretty close. You want to provide a snippet - fine. Favorit makes it seem to the untrained eye that they content is their own. Robert - we already know how you feel about stealing - you leave your front door open with a sign that says "come in take whatever you want its all free" :)
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    •   When Did Splogging Become a Business Model? Fav.or.it
    •   The Inquisitr
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  • allen stern  yay for you - awesome!
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    •   Reaching milestones are a good boost
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  • allen stern  svetlana - you need to remember why the splogs are there :) you are forgetting that!
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    •   Reaching milestones are a good boost
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  • allen stern  no thanks - and don't say you don't have a google standing when you are already in google news, and i am not :)
  • • 1 month ago
    •   Why Has Keith Teare Gone Into Spam Blogging? Seriously Dumb
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  •   Svetlana Gladkova - profy  Allen, I can't believe it, really. How comes CN is still not on Google News? I know it took me 3 or 4 months waiting and talking to the team there but we've done that eventually. But Duncan is never stopping to surprise me with such a speedy process of getting a pretty new blog everywhere, really :)
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  • allen stern  guess I am not good enough to make this site :-P
  • • 1 month ago
    •   Why Has Keith Teare Gone Into Spam Blogging? Seriously Dumb
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  •   Duncan Riley  Allen, you're welcome to take my place. Last thing I need is a duplicate content penalty while The Inquisitr is still young and without any real strong Google standing :-)
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  • allen stern  btw this 3r reminds me of the old days on irc when you'd go all l33t and c00l, etc.
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    •   louisgray.com: LOUD3R Launches Massive Semantically-Driven Network
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  • allen stern  ok i gotta ask, was this a paid review :)
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    •   louisgray.com: LOUD3R Launches Massive Semantically-Driven Network
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  •   Louis Gray  Are you kidding me? :-) The next paid review I do will be the first one. Have a gig I can do for cash?
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  • allen stern  gruber is everwhere!
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    •   BlogPotomac in Pictures !
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  •   jjgardner3  yeah man, he is a ROCK star !! Thanks for stopping by
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  • allen stern  I wonder how much of that traffic is "real" on trati. Thanks for the link Duncan - link counting might be the only thing it's good for - but that rarely works as well. Someone must have some excellent speaking and writing ability to get the VCs to give them more money. Maybe the vc's are hoping for an exit?
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    •   More Money For Technorati? Really?
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  • allen stern  i will put my phone up against the iphone any day. you name the place!
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    •   The real iPhone 3G rip-off: Text messages
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  • allen  i didn't know you made funny posts Louis - was this blog hacked? :-P if i didn't like you i would say something like "maybe you should try more of this in the future!"
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  •   Louis Gray  Allen, on rare occasions you can see my dry, sarcastic, side come out. Maybe I could do it more. But overdoing it can be just as bad as underdoing it. Another example: Five Lesser-Known Tips on Being an Apple Fanboy http://theappleblog.com/2007/07/06/five-lesser-known-tips-on-how-to-be-an-apple-fanboy/
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  • allen stern  MG - you do realize that recommending something on FF won't work - no one reads FF. also, I didn't get invited either...
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    •   Google launches Gmail Labs tonight
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  •   MG Siegler  Well I did do it on Twitter, but since Twitter STILL doesn't have search, I could only find it on FriendFeed. What's up, is Gmail elitist?
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  • allen stern  if you aren't replying to your commenters where appropriate, then you are just standing on your soapbox - in fact, i'd argue not replying makes you look like more of an egotist as you call it.
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    •   louisgray.com: Are Blog Comments Really Conversations, or Are They Just Replies?
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  • allen stern  Robert - I have written about digg before - you can find my post on "wtf: why does digg have comments" from early 2007. Whether it's about money or not, it doesn't matter - the conversation should remain where it started whenever possible - we can do this technically - so why not do it? I just don't get why anyone wants to keep the conversation away from being centralized in/decentralized out - this is the best scenario for all.
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    •   Web Discussions: Leaving The Instigator Out
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  •   Adam Wride  I can see why you would want it all in one place, but I can also see the benefit of having separate conversations (maybe because of privacy or specific interest [music vs. investing] or to include specific audiences). I think an answer to this would be to have a groups system with a very open api that allows comments and other meta-data (youtube videos, flickr pictures, etc) to be assigned to a specific group. That way, say using disqus, you could have the conversation all in the same place (the original blog), but it is grouped.
  •   Robert Seidman  It's not about people wanting to keep the conversation away from being centralized, it's about people wanting to have conversations wherever they want to have them. If someone can bring all the fragmented conversations back centrally in a way that makes sense to the people reading the comments, I don't think anybody, including me, is against that. I view that differently than "the conversation should happen where it starts", which I disagree with completely. Conversations happen wherever they happen, and nothing, including desire, or personal bias will change that. Trying to change *that* will definitely not produce the desired results.
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  • allen stern  Fred- it's good to see you come over to the good side (perhaps you were always there) - I've written about this topic a bunch of times and while many disagree with me, the conversation should be centralized in/decentralized out. Comment on the place where the item happened (flickr/youtube/blog/whatever) and then all of the other services like friendfeed can aggregate out - but the comment should take place on the place where it originated. click my name to read my latest article on this topic
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    •   Web Discussions: Leaving The Instigator Out
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  •   Alex  Fred, Good to see you coming around and seeing the light of day. Hope you will stop pushing comment replacement systems and instead focus on delivering value to the site owners. This is great. -Alex
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  • allen stern  Robert - just because something works X way offline, does not mean it should work X way online. Your "calling" point just doesn't work online - I am sorry.
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    •   Web Discussions: Leaving The Instigator Out
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  •   Robert Seidman  Actually Allen, it "works" just fine and dandy. You don't like it but that's not the same as it not working. You're a different case than Fred's brother for me though -- you're trying to make money on your blog, and while I don't doubt that you love it, the ultimate payment still winds up being $$. And you should be pretty happy with every blog, delicious, stumble, digg (I see you begging for those on Twitter from time to time, never saw you complain about the comments that occur ON Digg in the same fashion -- not saying you never complained, only that I must've missed it) conversation your post generates! FriendFeed is no different. Still, I'm coming around more to Fred's thinking. Jackson is more representative of the multitudes of bloggers who are doing it simply for the love of it. If some simple tool to pull the conversation back to him and others like him can be created and it makes sense, and...it fuels his love for blogging, I'm definitely all for it.
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