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Re: With Twitter friend imports, FriendFeed again devalues Twitter.com

digitalshaman — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 21:00:50 -0000

Yeay for competition!

Re: The space between Twitter and FriendFeed (Scripting News)

digitalshaman — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 12:41:05 -0000

Excellent observations - now if either service could get some of that $100 bil in TXT revenues ...

Re: Once again, Twitter’s death is laid out. Once again, users will fail to notice

digitalshaman — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 20:43:59 -0000

People still have AOL accts - case closed - they should seek a split with a SMS provider (cheap for any of the major telecoms; may lessen interest in the $100 bil SMS market (Sen Kohl started) - this is all about granularity of data - structured & unstructured with computational value needing to be matched against the expense/cost of scale - not "interestingness" - "willingness to pay"

Re: Using the economy as an excuse for failure doesn’t stack up

digitalshaman — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 18:53:21 -0000

alas "bad luck" gets a sh*tload of the blame for failure: "good luck" gets far too little credit for success ... say it ain't so! I wanna know who is "willing to pay" & realize I gotta make my own "luck" - fear versus greed means little compared with passion & patience & persistence

Re: Britney Spears Looks Hotter Thanks to Her Fans. Could She At Least Credit Them?

digitalshaman — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 13:34:52 -0000

Yes. Just like encryption, everyone should sign their work with watermarks & never release unwatermarked originals. Fact is, if you don't release an original unwatermarked copy, you can always easily prove you own it. With the watermarks, think of them like a digital signature that survives transformations between the analog & digital domains, you are able to creating a receipting mechanism and depending on how active you are you will be able to uniquely identify particular copies versus other copies ...

Re: McCain Campaign asks YouTube to ignore the DMCA

digitalshaman — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 23:54:42 -0000

A timely confluence of concepts 1)free speech, 2)privacy (no originalist Constitutional right we've been told & that includes opinions of allegedly likely McCain judicial appointees - seriously) & 3)piracy (arguably a legislative construct absent objective actuarial measurements - language currently dominated with allegedly better access to the "law"-making) - especially interesting in view of the quick Pro-IP Act being signed into law ... Fair use is not a right - it & first sale doctrine are the typical tools in protecting yourself against allegations of infringement (even under DMCA) - clearly, this debate belongs to *ALL* Americans ... We cannot predict the hits but we can create an environment which is equitable & enables innovative value creation in an information age ... (stop attacking inventors, to start)

Re: Is political debate driving people to Twitter and changing its nature?

digitalshaman — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 21:45:30 -0000

the Japanese ignored & did not come "clean" with their denials concerning bad debt for many years to arguably no present or few value add in terms as credit & performance of equities as well as job creation

Re: Is political debate driving people to Twitter and changing its nature?

digitalshaman — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 21:41:19 -0000

I twittered that to influence news - as though society always had 300 million humans to organize and govern ... & that access to information does matter in every society ... Hmmm

Re: Is political debate driving people to Twitter and changing its nature?

digitalshaman — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 21:33:15 -0000

right on - Glenn Beck is the new voice of reason

Re: Initial Thoughts On MySpace Music

digitalshaman — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 20:21:04 -0000

Yes *authenticity* is the value ... Make the subject the object & the object the subject - people connect with great stories, narratives, SONG ... Trust is fungible with these services (yahoo music, MSN music, real's subscription services are great examples) - no trust & they quickly disappear for unknown reasons (fungibility) - what $2.99 for a ringtone & 99 cents for the MP3?

Great post - worth more than any $2.99 ringtone & certainly more than 2 cents! What is piracy anyway? Fair use? Value?

Re: Initial Thoughts On MySpace Music

digitalshaman — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 20:14:15 -0000

I'm waiting for a model for measuring/valuing bandwidth as currency for this & other ventures - we lack currency that is equitable or consistentvwity the fact there is no bandwidth scarcity nor a shortage of music or talent ...

Re: Empire State Building Photos & Video

digitalshaman — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 18:14:09 -0000

in college we did a 5 story pyramid with 30 guys in our fraternity pledge class & sang a Penn song from about where you are shooting the photos ... all dressed in suits on our way to similar performances at The Plaza & while The Met let out close to midnight !!! Love the photos - 20 yr time machine - Memories

Re: louisgray.com: Is There a Long Tail to My iTunes Library? The Stats Tell All.

digitalshaman — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 16:46:40 -0000

so questions arise - pardon the observations ... what is the value of the music (we know the expense as we can count the receipts) how about your time? less than 0.03% of albums - long tail is not a proven theory - account for over 50% of major record revenues - do you have similar stats to your own content? ... is this not similar to the impact of user-generated content on networks in general? meaning do you think the value of the content you create (in this post for instance) has an equivalent value with the music you identify here under some set of conditions? do you monitor it? enjoyed the post as usual

Re: Owning my name in Google

digitalshaman — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 17:33:40 -0000

or ... you could trademark your name ... using all of the suggestions above to decide on what your applicable trade is & enforce the tradename against those who might cyber-squat or worse ... it is even helpful in resolving liability in ID Theft &/or getting some traction in the currency of recognition that we are all able to monetize using the intellectual property protections that larger entities take for granted and use successfully for their own gain ... this is not legal advice, express or implied ... but while the big boys attack the patent system, copyright & trademark protections get stronger ... so, why not? we are all analogs & intangible!

Re: Palin on the Bush Doctrine -- Political Wire

digitalshaman — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 21:37:05 -0000

Don't underestimate she is differentiating from Bush ... She appears to have fully exploitable hot buttons aplenty that must be like mccain's ... Plus what shecsaid is what most Americans believe - if there is a threat to Americans we fight ... Not preemptive regime change as most Americans believe[d] saddam was involved in 9/11 original Bush Doctrine "preemption" with flimsy objective evidence ... Comments on Russia/NATO far scarier - especially that the nationalist Georgia's leader (Stalins homeland) is hardly dealing with clean hands & he has a lobbyist in the mccain staff (or did long enough to make a difference) ... Fight over the caucuses & caviar how pleasant

Re: http://www.louisgray.com/live/2008/09/real-genius-in-itunes-8-apple-will-make.html

digitalshaman — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 04:07:18 -0000

Awesome convert willingness to pay into payments easily ... I look forward to the enhancements on the backend (perhaps with garage band or iMovie) to compete with content asset management ... A very interesting direction as more artists (established) move to radiohead-like (the street performer model) or even pearl jams authorized bootlegs (selling more controlled but familiar format) ... Ultimately how far can they get into management & more control over music assets ... Monitoring doesn't scale to well according to some - but the value of storage & transactions look to be in play (nokia bought loudeye, right?)

Re: Tracking Gustav: The Citizen Videos

digitalshaman — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 09:52:50 -0000

not important ... i see G*d in sunrises & sunsets ... I "see" G*d in the laughter of people & the sounds of nature ... Your fire & brimstone "lesson" is sad that you live by fear & doubt not faith & love ... G*d Bless you!

Re: Tracking Gustav: The Citizen Videos

digitalshaman — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 16:13:49 -0000

see kite surfers/ kite boarders for hurricane gustav @ mad8in8china ... citizen journalism of a different sort - http://www.youtube.com/mad8in8china