Late Fragment - A poem by Raymond Carver - American Poems (1)
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Late Fragment by Raymond Carver
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Brian Oberkirch said:
And did you get whatyou wanted from this life, even so?I did.And what did you want?To call myself beloved, to feel myselfbeloved on the earth.
Lunch Poems | 43 Folders (1)
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At the late late party after party we were talking about how you know if you're a writer. I suggested that actually writing routinely was the tip off. Then someone had a better idea: that writers are those who feel guilty about not writing. A first-world
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Brian Oberkirch said:
Oh, hey, it must be time for my bi-annual post to 43 Folders. This time I wrote a bit about Frank O'Hara.
The time/money formula of free (51)
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At some point in your life, you will wake up and discover that you have more money than time. And you will then realize that you should start doing things differently, which means not walking four blocks to find an ATM that doesn't charge a fee, driving for miles to find cheaper gas, or painting your own house. This same calculus is the foundation of a big part of the "freemium" economy. We see it ...
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You can build a good business on this model, as Limor Fried (AKA LadyAda, picture above), has shown with her electronics kit retail/design/community AdaFruit Industries. She and her business partner, Philip Torrone, explain the economics and tactics in a presentation here (good summary here).Short form: 1. Build a community around free information and advice on a particular topic. 2. With that community's help, design some products that people want, and return the favor by making the products free in raw form. 3. Let those with more money than time/skill/risk-tolerance buy the more polished version of those products. (That may turn out to be almost everyone) 4. Do it again and again, building a 40% margin into the products to pay the bills. As Torrone said in an email, "I can't imagine doing a book, a video, a magazine unless I had a community that would rally along the way. In the end it always seemed to be about a story, people like to see the beginning, middle, end and plot of something -- and if there's a buy button somewhere, they sometimes click it and reward us for working hard."
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iAdramelk said:
At some point in your life, you will wake up and discover that you have more money than time. And you will then realize that you should start doing things differently, which means not walking four blocks to find an ATM that doesn't charge a fee, driving for miles to find cheaper gas, or painting your own house.
Open Web Foundation announced at OSCON (14)
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This morning at OSCON, David Recordon announced the creation of the Open Web Foundation. The Open Web Foundation is an attempt to create a home for community-driven specifications. Following the open source model similar to the Apache Software Foundation, the foundation is aimed at building a lightweight framework to help communities deal with the legal requirements necessary to create successful and widely adopted specification. For those who couldn't be there, here is the presentation: Supporting ...
Silverback has launched! (4)
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Clearleft’s first desktop application is now available! Silverback is a handy piece of software to make ‘guerilla’ usability testing a breeze. Read more.
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Huzzah for Clearleft! Their OS X usability testing app, Silverback, is out.
Meetup - The Original Web Meets World Company | Union Square Ventures: A New York Venture Capital Fund Focused on Early Stage & Startup Investing (11)
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The next generation of services will need to have an impact on the real world and the real economy, not just an attention economy driven by self expression and discovery online. These new services will also need to reach real people, many of who use few if any web services today.
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Web, meet world. "The next generation of services will need to have an impact on the real world and the real economy, not just an attention economy driven by self expression and discovery online. These new services will also need to reach real people, many of who use few if any web services today."
Daily Reading: A 12 Step Program for Value Destruction (7)
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1) Underinvest in innovation (note the relatively small scale involved). 2) Reward rent-seeking. 3) Make profit an illusion. 4)Defend obsolete business models. 5) Be willing to sell everything out - everything. 6) Never count tomorrow's costs. 7) Build industries around the cult of the deal. 8) Turn corporate governance into the costliest activity in the economy. 9) Forget that the point of business is to change the world for the better. 10) Expropriate wealth from ...
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Since last summer I've been talking about comments as the Dark Matter of the Blogosphere. I use Intense Debate* for the comment system on my blog and have learned a lot by experimenting with it. In the past six months comments have moved to the forefront of the discussion around user generated content. While the various new commenting systems that have emerged have played a part in this, I think the broad activity around systems ...
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Brian Oberkirch said:
I agree that context sensitive connective tissues present a huge opp for us.
Big Contrarian → Tacky. (25)
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Talking about your blog is the social equivalent of talking about your dog. It’s a dull conversation for everyone but you. Yet, an entire industry exists built around nothing more than bloggers, talking about blogging to other bloggers via their blogs. It’s a trade show for people who run trade shows. A instructional video on making instructional videos. Cyclical and cheap, yet undoubtably useful to the right type of consumer. Why the industry exists is ...
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Boris said:
"These are the web equivalent of informercials. Lowest-common-denominator thinking. One guy getting rich off telling you how to get rich. And fuck me sideways, they have more readers than I’ll likely ever have."
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adam said:
"There are only three requirements I’ve ever sussed out from reading excellent sites. Write well, write often, and write with passion. It seems if you can manage that, you’ll find an audience."
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straylight said:
This is very true. Eventually I wouldn't mind my blogs supporting themselves, but I won't prostitute them...too much.
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Gangles said:
Emphasis mine, hooray for long-winded, thoughtful, passionate writers!
Jan Chipchase - Future Perfect Archives (4)
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Chipchase on the unforeseen implications of constant location sharing.
Kevin Kelly: The Three Tails (37)
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If I wait long enough, all the smart things about the Long Tail will be said by other people and I can just quote them here. Today's installment is by none other than Kevin Kelly. If he will forgive me reprinting his post in its entirety below, I will forgive him the cringe-making term "long tail of the Dragon of Love" ;-) Over to Kevin: "Seth Godin recently posted a dissection of the three "profit ...
Why Most Online Communities Fail (8)
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GiantBomb.com. Launched today, powered by Django—a combination of (mostly ex-Gamespot) quality editorial content and a massive structured wiki of every computer game ever released. This is going to be a lot of fun—all of the crazy detailed content that Wikipedia tends to reject.Contribute commentAvant Game (5) permalink
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Moran’s study revealed that even though 60% of businesses put over $1 million into branded online community building efforts, 35% have less than 100 members, while less than a quarter have more than 1,000.Shared by Brian Oberkirch (0) Jon Leirdal (3) Joy O'Hare (99) Laurent Courtines (0) martian (11) Stephen (32) Steven Lewis (0) Thomas Amberg (34)Contribute comment
