DISQUS

So, let me get this straight: you liked the advice, right? (Joshing, of course. Good to hear you found something to help you kick it in gear.)

Nice clear thinking here, Chris. Focusing on peripheral effects can easily be mistaken for focusing on root causes.

Thanks for posting this. One small point: you certainly meant "your" in this line: "If you’re idea is truly great."

That was very human and down-to-earth. Nicely done.

OK, now I've read the notes and have a minute to comment.

Great stuff! I love the focus on "connect." If you go to our website, you'll see that our tagline is "connecting people for results." Anyway, that emphasis on enabling connections — of people with themselves and of people with others — is pivotal. As you saw in that video I made yesterday, I think establishing, strengthening, enriching those connections is where value is created in ecosystems. Using Seth's position as a springboard sounds like just the right thing for you at this point. Look forward to following your experience of the process...on VloggerHeads videos, of course!

I just read the first paragraph of this post and cracked up. Why? I just uploaded this video which starts off with a similar disclaimer! OK, now I'll go ahead and read the rest of the post!

May I also suggest VloggerHeads.com?

Thanks. As one of VloggerHeads co-founders, I think you have nailed the issues squarely. I've been a strong YT participant, partner, Community Council member and overall supporter, but the company has made too many decisions that have taken it away from the heart of its business: content creators. They're a powerful "entertainment network" now and will continue to be a major player for the foreseeable future. But I believe companies like Seesmic, and proof of concept experiments like VloggerHeads, are pointing toward the next step in Internet interaction.

SOP For YT

Looking forward to the Engelbart video. His "mother of all demos" (http://sloan.stanford.edu/mousesite/1968Demo.html) is required view, imo.

As for the Gawker issue. It's a no-brainer that blinkin' lights, yelling and T&A get more views. "Qualified viewers," however, are a different story. Imagine how influential a post on the early Well was (is?) compared with a "normal" post. Why? The folks reading that Well post are heavy influencers. It's like every one of those views is worth 50 incidental viewers. Somebody will figure out how to create/monitor that metric soon.

Nokia gave 40 of us at a PopTech precon a free N95. Why? They figured the crowd was made up of people they wanted talking about the device. (It's pretty good.)

Ads served up to qualified viewers of blogs and video might just link up with Doc's VRM. Then we'd see some interesting stuff.

Nicely said, David. Here's to learning to use new tools to accomplish old goals: better listening, better understanding, better doing.

I'm of the "you can't get enough support at times like this" school, so, many thoughts and good wishes going out to you and your family at this difficult time.

If by "meteors to the dinosaurs" you mean the vehicles of their destruction, I agree. You have to wonder, though, if dinosaurs took notice of the earliest meteor showers, the ones before THE BIG ONE hit. We'll never know. Here, however, we have a species that's watching all the signs and ignoring them, like many of us did before the Internet bubble burst.

How spooky is that? I just posted a comment on your blog and got your comment on mine! I think this Huffington Post has the potential to be a big deal, but certainly nothing like what the rest of us think of as a blog.

I enjoyed this post as well, David. Looking forward to the next installment.

When's the next meeting of the Metro North Bloggers Association?

See, now that's the kind of great fakery we're looking for. None of this fey foodie stuff!