Maybe I've allowed Dave Winer undue influence over me in this regard, but I can't see giving up Google Reader's All Items "river of news" view. Are there plans to offer this presentation style in NewsBlur for those of us who'd rather not visit the original sites? It doesn't seem incompatible with the AI management feature, especially if you can do better than Reader's "sort by magic" setting.
Ah, the joys of in-band signaling. Now, where'd I put my blue box?
Jason doesn't have just one persona. He alternates from Dean Martin to George Steinbrenner and from Jerry Lewis to Donald Trump. Now he's doing his Tony Soprano "youth today" routine demanding one-way loyalty. Hey Jason, while you're getting in touch with your old-school values, go ahead and hire a publicist. You really need one.
At-will employment: Deal with it or sign an employment contract. This applies to both parties. End of story.
Update:
Jason in October of 2008: "We’ve laid off a just under 10% of our full-time staff, cut our overhead by doing smart things like renting desks (we have six offices in Santa Monica fyi), and reorganized our editorial department to focus on freelance positions over in-house editors."
Freelance positions, huh? You can't have it both ways, Calacanis. As an experienced businessman you should know this.
Shirky wrote, "Expensive bits of video made in complex ways now compete [emphasis mine] with cheap bits made in simple ways. 'Charlie Bit My Finger' was made by amateurs, in one take, with a lousy camera." That's akin to writing in the early 2000s that since movie and TV products like "Blair Witch," "Survivor," and other reality TV programs became so popular, it meant that the public was losing its appetite for video of high production values, and that this was likely to become a permanent trend.
The talk in Edinburgh last year mentioned at the top of Shirky's piece was to UK TV executives. Here's a Reuter's headline about it: "TV executives meet in Edinburgh as ad drought continues." Here's a bit of an article from the Guardian published 2 days ago:
"Analysts double the forecast for television market in 2010
A report says that bullish spending by advertisers has led to the revised predictions for 2010
Bullish spending from TV advertisers has led analysts to more than double the forecast for year-on-year growth in the UK market, with ITV set for a boost of up to 30% in the second quarter."
"Charlie Bit My Finger" is a specious example. It's a 56s clip like one you'd see on America's Funniest Home Videos, a program filled with viewer-submitted content and a counterargument to "By Moms, For Moms." Two questions raised here: How does "Charlie" stack up against American Idol, Dancing With The Stars, and the Superbowl in terms of total viewer-hours? More important, how many of us are willing to sit through 1.5h movies with "Charlie" production values?
Context? I have a natural tendency to start sentences with "I think" and the like, and I have to fight myself to NOT to use such phrasing on the job. Every "perhaps," "maybe," "why don't we ... ?" opens a door through which the other party can force his own agenda, I've found. This advice doesn't work in business.
There are no multivalue databases on the list (e.g., OpenQM).