Category Archives: Responding

The New New Business of News

Image by Getty Images via Daylife While in some previous posts, there have been discussions of the theoretical maximum viewership of news-content, as well as the history of Newspaper, it is now time to discuss what does all of this mean in a practical sense. This is the third major age of newspapers, but not [...]
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Growing Pains and Disqus

Image by BenSpark via Flickr Disqus is definitely one of the most powerful commenting systems out there.  Beyond having fabulous customer service, it also is seeming to promote a really social commenting community on blogs, as seen from Fred Wilson‘s (currently) 183 comments here.  Whatever solution to solve the overwhelming feeling of seeing that many [...]
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Consensus-Based Funds, or in which an idea is sketched broadly out

In one of those comments where one never knows quite what the author originally thinks, I had written on Fred Wilson‘s blog, avc.com, Why aren’t there easier ways for average people to invest outside of pooling there money into institutions which then invest for them. Who says I have to like CalPers choices? (if I [...]
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Ring! Ring! Ring! Government-Phone!

In one of those odd sort of moves that I suspected for a while, Verizon is moving to cut its exclusive contract with cell phone makes (such as LG and RIM) to six months.
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Convergence and Divergence of the Flip

Image by Boyan Yurukov via Flickr Someone I was friendly with in college posted this link (http://bit.ly/15oAMt), from his Digg to Facebook. In it, is a whole analysis of whether, as shown by the IPhone 3GS, phones will also start converging into point-and -shoot camcorders, ala the Flip, owned by Cisco. A closer look around [...]
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The Atypical Customer-Venture Capitalists

I follow Fred Wilson‘s blog, avc.com, regularly.  It is my must read every day, alongside some sort of news, if I can get it. Both the posts and the comment section are worth it. Under the post, “The VC’s Customers (Continued),” there is a comment by Chance Barnett, who writes: That entrepreneurs are the VC’s [...]
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The Price of Freemium

A number of links are now floating about the Internet about Malcolm Gladwell‘s review of Free, the book by Wired Editor-In-Chief Chris Anderson.  Another review, in the Financial Times, by John Gapper, also does not come out so strongly in favor of the economics advocated by Anderson. The reviews are essentially critiques of the Freemium [...]
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