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Re: The Blog Where Everybody Knows Your Name

fredwilson — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 10:58:09 -0000

He could manage it with disqus I think

Re: The Blog Where Everybody Knows Your Name

Jan Schultink — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 09:59:37 -0000

Seth Godin is running a closed-group social network "Tribes" (http://sethgodin.typepad.co..., following the principles of this book (buy the book, you get in). Still his blog posts hardly get discussed there.

The reason he closed the comments is that he got so many of them that he was not able anymore to address the 5% commenters with "flaws in logic" http://sethgodin.typepad.co...

Re: The Blog Where Everybody Knows Your Name

kidmercury — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 07:23:06 -0000

well, accused of being involved in the jfk assassination. he allegedly confessed to being a part of the hit team. not sure on all the details, though, the kennedy assassination is an epic story. of course it is a cherished subject amongst kooks, as studying the kennedy assassination provides great insight into the new world order and how their system operates.

but the simplest answer to "who killed jfk?" is the CIA (or more precisely, a division within the CIA). the new world order is a more correct answer in my opinion, but that's too kooky for most folks. if you say CIA, you basically tell the same story in a more believable fashion, and can provide more proof (like confessions from CIA agents).

Re: The Blog Where Everybody Knows Your Name

fredwilson — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 06:37:13 -0000

Woody's dad killed JFK? I would expect nothing less from you kid!

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fredwilson — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 06:35:41 -0000

And he's talking about the 20th century!

Re: The Blog Where Everybody Knows Your Name

fredwilson — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 06:26:24 -0000

I'm hoping that doesn't happen

Re: The Blog Where Everybody Knows Your Name

paramendra — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 23:31:36 -0000

I know how: a great blogger + Disqus.

Re: The Blog Where Everybody Knows Your Name

kidmercury — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 08:45:06 -0000

you know woody's dad, the hitman you reference, was also one of the people suspected of assassinating john f. kennedy....woody knows all about the new world order

Re: The Blog Where Everybody Knows Your Name

Carl Rahn Griffith — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 07:42:23 -0000

Oh yes it is.

Well, Panto' season is approaching ... ;-)

Re: The Blog Where Everybody Knows Your Name

Carl Rahn Griffith — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 07:41:12 -0000

Ditto.

Re: The Blog Where Everybody Knows Your Name

Carl Rahn Griffith — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 07:39:55 -0000

How about this - below - for yet another wonderful Churchill quote? Had not read this one before:

"I wonder whether any other generation has seen such astounding revolutions of data and values as those through which we have lived. Scarcely anything material or established which I was brought up to believe was permanent and vital, has lasted. Everything I was sure or taught to be sure was impossible, has happened."

What a man. That one's definitely going on my home-office wall.

Re: The Blog Where Everybody Knows Your Name

awaldstein — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 22:04:13 -0000

Thnx Mark

Re: The Blog Where Everybody Knows Your Name

Mark Essel — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 21:05:29 -0000

A quick look up on Google showed a Bloomberg post with recent upbeat reports on ad sales.
Here's a telling quote from the article: "Even as companies pared marketing budgets, Google benefited from a shift to online ads from traditional media. Search advertising will grow 3.6 percent in the U.S. this year, while the entire ad industry declines 15 percent, according to Magna Global in New York."

This is somewhat counter online advertising, but I like Eric Clemons' style: Why Advertising is Failing on the Internet. For interactive tv look to boxee, hulu, netflix and other providers that give viewers the freedom to pick their media and create their own personalized stations. I'm not sure how popular the ad model versus pay to play will be though.

Re: The Blog Where Everybody Knows Your Name

rosshill — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 19:56:51 -0000

Fred your bar is one of the best around for a daily drink :) Thanks

Re: The Blog Where Everybody Knows Your Name

Peter Renshaw — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 18:42:32 -0000

"... It's like a bar where a bunch of regulars show up every night. You aren't sure which of them will show and what the talk will be, but it's fun and everyone is respectful and you learn a lot. I can't exactly explain how it got to be this way, but it is. And I am so grateful for it. ..."

Fred this is an important point and I think the following elements are in play:
- bdfl: benevolent dictator for life means good policing
- identity: contributors are known so reputation counts
- culture enforces good behaviour
- intelligence and positive behaviour is rewarded not bad behaviour

In any online community the deficiencies in any 4 means discussion degrades. One thing that might skew this is if the community increases to the point identity becomes a problem.

Re: The Blog Where Everybody Knows Your Name

Christian Brucculeri — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 17:39:43 -0000

I've often wondered about people with "The Kid" nicknames. What happens when they're the oldest person in the conversation?

Re: The Blog Where Everybody Knows Your Name

David Semeria — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 14:52:53 -0000

Well said.

Re: The Blog Where Everybody Knows Your Name

fredwilson — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 14:33:03 -0000

Yup. He is certainly a scrappy guy

Re: The Blog Where Everybody Knows Your Name

daryn — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 13:40:56 -0000

One of the things I love about Disqus is that I can use it to explore people from this community, see their comments on other blogs, and join in there as well as visit their own blogs.

Re: The Blog Where Everybody Knows Your Name

William Mougayar — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 13:33:05 -0000

Exactly.
I bet you could tap your audience for some meaningful surveying or a quick poll widget...just a thought.

Re: The Blog Where Everybody Knows Your Name

Dave Pinsen — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 12:17:40 -0000

Scarily again, I agree with Kid on something else. Comments or bust. I don't even read blogs that don't have them. If the blogger doesn't want to hear from me, I don't want to hear from him. In fact, I'll take it a step further: I don't read blogs where the blogger doesn't occasionally interact with his commenters. That's just as bad, IMO. Not that many bloggers interact as often as Fred does here, but they should all interact at least occasionally.

Re: The Blog Where Everybody Knows Your Name

kidmercury — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 11:00:16 -0000

good point. however i wanted to find a word that conveys that kookology/kookism is not simply a philosophical outlook, but rather something that has its own science. i feel like -ism is more associated with subjectivity, while -ology has a more objective, fact-oriented connotation.

but an excellent point you raise, and certainly one that merits discussion.

9/11 was an inside job,
kid mercury

Re: The Blog Where Everybody Knows Your Name

kidmercury — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 10:47:21 -0000

lol, well jdawg's game is retro, he even tried to create a 1997 style web directory, so it makes sense that jdawg would embrace such strategies.

jdawg hustles though, so you can't rule him out and have to give props in that sense. hustlers can succeed in spite of many, many obstacles.

Re: The Blog Where Everybody Knows Your Name

fredwilson — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 10:40:43 -0000

that's where i am Erik and it is fine. in fact it is wonderful

Re: The Blog Where Everybody Knows Your Name

Carl Rahn Griffith — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 10:12:50 -0000

Just Twitter DM'd you.

PS, we've just gone one nil up after just a few minutes!