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I love Bruce's original manifesto and I think this one is cool as well. Thanks for posting.

Thanks a lot for conducting the interview as I am fairly interested in hearing Minister Clement's take on copyright reform.

P.S. I agree with Jennifer that a "shotgun" mic will give you much better sound quality.

Imagine if John-Paul had taken the bus instead.

Would you like to help refine or fix the definition? Checking the edit history, the last two edits were done in Aug 11, 2008 and then April 20, hardly "active" at all.

If you need encouragement, here is one from a stranger. If an idiot like me can and have edited entries, and even created entries, so can a smart man like yourself?

Wikipedia does depend on kindness of experts (like you) or semi-knowledgeable person (like me) to help make it better a little bit at a time.

Hope you will go ahead and edit it. It won't bite. :)

Very neat title. :)

P.S. Who said love can't be designed? (smile) Some of these are.
http://kempton.wordpress.com/2008/02/14/a-day-o...

P.P.S. It will be nice to have a "Preview" button, instead of just "Post Comment".

Hi Mathew,

Yeah, negotiation is the name of the game.

Paul Kedrosky is right with respect to the ease of accessing of the clips. But, having the clips at individual locations do give more control to the content creator to provide a better "experience". Lets take Fox's "24" as an example, all the other info can be nicely packaged together with the clips. Just my 2 cents.

- Kempton

Hi Mathew,

Dragons\' Den may not be a *great way* to great way to raise money but it is definitely *one way* to raise some money. For people without rich relatives nor an extensive network of VCs ready to tap for some investment, Dragons\' Den is a one way (and I will even say, \"a good way\") to be exposed to some prospective investors. Hard-working entrepreneurs need help sometimes and if Dragons\' Den is their way to that path of success, then take it.

And I would say raising money is part of the show and not just a \"sideshow\" which is loaded with some slight negative connotations that I am not comfortable with.

I have a comment about the JobLoft entrepreneurs\' blog entry that you and your reader may find interesting, which is here.

Getting very little face-time or input from the dragons may be unfortunate but does it make the deal completely not workable? After all, if the JobLoft entrepreneurs have specific concerns, are there better ways to handle these issues than blowing-up right at the \"cheque exchange and welcome aboard\" meeting? I beg to differ from the events transpired on that faithful 2006 Halloween morning.

Finally and most importantly, I take issue with your last point completely. If the JobLoft entrepreneurs (and Dr. Norrie) engineered the harsh treatment of the Dragons to get out of the deal to get more money elsewhere, then they have just sold off their reputations. And if that was really the case, I like to use a quote from Warren Buffett to respond,
“I want employees to ask themselves whether they are willing to have any contemplated act appear on the front page of their local paper the next day, be read by their spouses, children, and friends … If they follow this test, they will not fear my other message to them: Lose money for my firm and I will be understanding; lose a shred of reputation for the firm, and I will be ruthless.“

Thanks for your interest in Dragons\' Den.

Now, can you call up the big bosses at CBC and tell them they have to order a Season Two of Dragons\' Den now? (smile)

Cheers,
Kempton

Hi Mathew,

Thanks for your linkback to my post and also your interest in Dragons' Den. I disagree with some of your points in your post and I will drop you a comment later today.

Cheers,
Kempton

P.S. Nice to see Globe and Mail writers blogging and communicating with readers directly and by-passing the good-old "letter to the editor" approach. (smile)