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Re: Commonwealth Games: The Opening Ceremony from Celtic Park - insidethegames.biz - Olympic, Paralympic and Commonwealth Games News

Stuart MacDonald — Thu, 24 Jul 2014 14:40:46 -0000

My point wasn't that the Commonwealth Games aren't important - in fact, Canada has hosted several times and has a large number of athletes in Glasgow. Rather I meant to point out that I found the choice of the broadcaster to only air a round-up show in the middle of the night to be odd. I'm pretty sure that the amount of coverage is directly linked to the awareness of the event e.g. Canada didn't even have a team in the World Cup but every match was broadcast live in addition to a nightly prime-time highlights show of several hours - and viewership and chatter was huge.

Sidebar: it does get cold in much of Canada in the winter but summers are hot and sunny - and many "summer games" sports are done indoors anyway! I hope you enjoy the Commonwealth Games.

Re: Commonwealth Games: The Opening Ceremony from Celtic Park - insidethegames.biz - Olympic, Paralympic and Commonwealth Games News

Stuart MacDonald — Thu, 24 Jul 2014 00:06:45 -0000

Interesting that the opening ceremonies are the only significant part of these games being shown live here in Canada. Everything else will only be part of a midnight round-up show or only webcast, except on the weekend which will have a little bit shown live. There is virtually no chatter about these games here. I'd be surprised if more than 1% of Canadians even know it's happening.

Re: HLBB & Xavierpop ‘Friends with Benefits’ Super-Advanced Screening Contest Details

Stuart MacDonald — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 12:26:56 -0000

I'm in. When are you making the draw Z? We parentals need to make arrangements for the kiddees.

Re: Mesh is TO’s most important DIY conference

Stuart MacDonald — Mon, 23 May 2011 22:42:08 -0000

Thanks Crow. Lovely to read.

Re: Zillow.com selects “Z” for ticker symbol, trims Q1 net loss

Stuart MacDonald — Mon, 23 May 2011 18:05:29 -0000

I know it's trivial, but I think this is awesome. Rich has always loved things that start with Z and now he's getting his own Z ticker. Perfect :)

Re: Building communities, not products

Stuart MacDonald — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 18:34:32 -0000

See my mail, Crow. I'm completely serious. Kind of ;)

Re: Inflation in Real Life

Stuart MacDonald — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 16:31:24 -0000

I think you are right re CAD/USD Gregor. Both the spending/sovereign debt spree in the US, especially compared to Canada's blissfully boring (for once that's a good thing) situation, together with Canada's energy position would seem to support that in the medium term. Personally, as a Canadian resident, I have taken the opportunity to move as much USD denominated fixed income securities into CAD while the exchange rate was at it's weakest several months ago. So, putting my money where my mouth is, as it were.

Love your thinking, as always.

Stuart

Re: Why Coasters Should Go To #mesh09

Stuart MacDonald — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 16:31:25 -0000

Dude, I'm from Halifax. Just sayin' :)

Re: The great depression….

Stuart MacDonald — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 10:45:46 -0000

Love it Andy :)

Re: Twitter: The personal becomes public

Stuart MacDonald — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 10:17:58 -0000

Well put 'thewie.

Re: Down from the Highs of Happiness

Stuart MacDonald — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 11:56:58 -0000

Of course, this time period also covers Bush"s term in office. Just sayin'...

Re: Down from the Highs of Happiness

Stuart MacDonald — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 11:37:56 -0000

Maybe when Prince said "tonight we're gonna party like it's 1999" he was right :)

As always, love your thinking Gregor.

- Stuart

Re: Global Industrialism and Oil’s Price Envelope

Stuart MacDonald — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 19:25:44 -0000

Gregor, fascinating stuff. I'm very glad that I connected to you via Paul on twitter. I've become a regular reader.

Cheers,
Stuart
(@stuartma)

Re: Personal note: A job change for yours truly

Stuart MacDonald — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 10:29:34 -0000

I'm having a bit of trouble getting past the "Climbing Christie Blatchford" challenge, but other than that, I'm happy for you ;)

Wishing you much success, 'thewie.

- Stu

Re: Stop Being Bearish

Stuart MacDonald — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 09:42:17 -0000

Great post Howard.

Re: Google needs to mind its own business

Stuart MacDonald — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 10:12:05 -0000

NICE :)

Re: Video: A Rick Sanchez greatest hits mashup

Stuart MacDonald — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 12:54:57 -0000

'thewie that is just hilarious. Thanks for posting.

Re: Yammer: This thing is a prize winner?

Stuart MacDonald — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 20:01:37 -0000

I agree 'thewie. A bit of a head scratcher. But it sure gets folks talking, hey? :)

- Stuart

Re: Not everything needs to be auctioned

Stuart MacDonald — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 09:57:46 -0000

'thewie:

I think you, um, nailed it with the "not everything is a nail" comment, and I for one am not surprised that they are seeing huge growth in the "But it now" service. In fact, we can see similar trends in other - big - categories. For instance, Priceline has become much more successful after their near-death experience that helped drive them to offer fixed-price travel services in addition to the auction style. When I was running marketing at Expedia, we wondered whether it would be successful, especially given that PCLN had invested so much in teaching their customers that they were an auction site, as well as the the hoo-haa about their "business system patent" or whatever. Personally, I liked their odds - they could draft on their huge reach and supplier relationships to offer "good enough" pricing without the hassle of the auction.

The flipside is that when Expedia.com in the US tried to offer auction-style pricing for flights it flat-out did not work. Now there could be lots of reasons for that, but basically Expedia customers weren't interested. Which in part led to the acquisition of Hotwire. Different problem - different solution.

- Stuart

Re: Tripharbor.com: Full speed ahead

Stuart MacDonald — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 13:44:04 -0000

Thanks Mathew. The ship has left drydock etc. :)

Re: What Question Does Your Product Answer?

Stuart MacDonald — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 15:39:29 -0000

That is absolutely and completely accurate. Very well put. Solving problems for people and making their lives better in some way is really the only business model that there is.

Re: Duncan Riley: Lessons in diplomacy

Stuart MacDonald — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 22:13:45 -0000

Back a day and already a post with 43 comments. You should vacation more often, 'thewie ;)

Re: The big deal: My link-o-rama

Stuart MacDonald — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 17:18:23 -0000

Great round-up 'thewie. Thanks for it.

Re: Barcodes: Really clever or really dumb?

Stuart MacDonald — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 18:06:41 -0000

Stunningly bad. I get the theory, but as you point out, it feels very 1998 to me.

Re: Google to buy everything, cure cancer

Stuart MacDonald — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 23:38:39 -0000

'thewie, I disagree. I think you should *totally* buy the Eiffel tower.