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Until Hulu goes International it's just a massive disincentive to invest in a site that depends on it, for anyone outside Nth America. Yawn.

Because Duncan is the king of unnecessary hyperbole. Did you even need to ask?

Just do a review of the headlines on this site! He's desperate to get this new project off the ground and no headline is too ridiculous.

Duncan, you have some good stuff to say, now and again. But stop being the douchebag sensationalist, for goodness sake.

The closeness of names creates a conversation right there... deliberate perhaps?

Another whole side of this conversation, one that is not really covered here that I can see, is the question of business models.

Within the bounds of what we might all agree are OK ways to make a quid, there is still a lot of choice and variety in terms of business models. Here there are some who know how to manage cashflow and others who don't.

Business model tweaking can mean the difference between making it to riches, and going broke on the way there.

-Alister

Thanks for the "plug", Andrew.

Much appreciated. I trust others will find it as useful as you have :)

-A

I am intrigued by the newsletter manager idea. It makes a lot of sense. Certainly if the right plugins are added, etc. At least, if your needs are simple. Worth a fiddle, that one.

You mention Wordpress, which is fair enough, but to be more precise, Buddypress is what we're all waiting for -- the social network "child" of Wordpress, based on Wordpress Multi User. Can't wait.

I am looking for a widget that will just show my comments in moderation... that would save me firing up Safari/Firefox, etc.

Anyone seen that anywhere?

-Alister

Well done on this!

I can't believe no-one has commented here yet.

Have you evolved this further?

I would be really keen to see this, but I have a very clear idea in mind of what I want...

I want a Wordpress plugin that doesn't display via JS, but pure HTML.

I'd like to back-end API calls... one to FF and the other to Disqus. then your "logic" to work out how to glue them together based on fuzzy timing (as you've explained), then output to screen via a template that I can code/style, much like the existing Wordpress one. It means I want to be able to make it style as per a normal Wordpress blog, but with merged comments from Disqus and FriendFeed... but not with javascript injection.

Am I talking your language here?? Would be awesome if that's what you were doing!

Cheers,

-A

I just love h-sphere. It's a bummer I had to let it go when I moved hosts to be in a more "central" location (LA, in my case).

H-sphere is really really good. And of course, it's seamlessly Linux and Windows, which is pretty cool.

I've used h-sphere both as an end-user and an admin. Great stuff.

Ensim also have some very cool stuff, especially their hosted Exchange, which I have used, and might still use if I could get it at a good price.

Thanks for the heads-up, mate.

-Alister

Andy,

You da man!

I need time to digest what you've written here and it's a way busy day, so I'll have to come back to you as soon as I can give your response the thoughtful response it deserves.

Thanks you so much. The blogosphere is a better place for your efforts :)

-Alister

I'll get flamed for this but this is how I "see" it from here in Melbourne Australia...

I wonder if this day of silence would have been called if the event hadn't happened on US soil, to US citizens. I am NOT saying I begrudge them for this initiative... not at all. I support it completely.

But we should have the courage and honesty to acknowledge that this kind of carnage is happening DAILY in Iraq (to Iraqis), in Africa, against political dissidents in China, and so forth... and I don't see days of silence initiated for these.

And what is happening in, say, Iraq is no less obscene, no less painful for human beings, no less taxing on our sense of humanity... it's just not so "immediate".

The Iraqi situation doesn't get the day of silence because we're all "over it", which is to me as much a tragedy.

If the tragedy at VA Tech stops us blogging, then well and good. It may well be a very appropriate thing for many to do. But what about next week when we've done that and then another completely innocent 60-or-so Iraqis doing their daily shopping in a marketplace get blown up by a deeply disturbed suicide bomber?

My point is only to ask for people to weigh human lives on the SAME scales every time... not the scale of their own personal emotional response, but something more objective than that, where an Iraqi life (for example) weighs the same as a US one, or an Aussie one, and is honoured accordingly.

Again... I have no problems with this expression of grief/respect, but where are the similar blog(ger) memorials for innocent Iraqis slaughtered on a daily basis (for example)?

The imbalance of it all screams out at me, and I can't not say so.

-Alister

Thanks for the mention and link to SEM Search, CK!

Always a pleasure to be of service to the search marketing community :)

-Alister

To Scott, one of the above commenters:

I think you've done a great job getting a pro to design your site, but there's one minor issue to be resolved: the image of you on the right is a huge file that weighs in at well over 200Kb! It must be resampled and resized... for the love of your visitors who are not on broadband, etc.

:)

Andy,

Last I looked links to me cover the first two pages of results in Google, bar one or two links to other people.

Of course, that's on my full name which is pretty non-competitive :)

-Alister

Andy, this is legendary. Love it!

I've posted it up on my site and will customise the SEM Search page to promote it too (will need a moment more for that).

I'm enjoying how this "meme" is evolving :)

- Alister

I'm delighted to tell you that British humour and Aussie humour must be very similar. Coz that's bloody funny!