Do you remember, from the ’80s, all the “My son is on the honor roll at XYZ Middle School”?
How about the response bumper sticker, “My kid can beat up your kid who’s on the honor roll”?
Is it time for a retort like, “My kid’s making six figures while your mouth-breather’s taking out the trash at 7-11″?
I think that might be a bit long for a bumper sticker…
Add comment February 21st, 2008
Nice to think that at least after tomorrow the days will be getting longer…
Unfortunately they won’t get up to full speed in their lengthening for a while, but it’s at least a reason for hope.
Add comment December 21st, 2007
Zubin Jelveh put down in words some thoughts about the decision at the New York Times to make previously subscription-based Times Select articles open to everyone. On his Odd Numbers blog his post The TimesSelect Effect gives some traffic data about NYTimes.com and other news sites, and ends with “So is 1.3 billion worth page views $20 million over two years? Not knowing anything about their inventory, I’d argue yes.”
I’d argue that looking forward, if I knew I could get 1.3 billion page views, and sell them for $20 million, this is a question worth asking. Looking backward, I don’t think that you can value things that simply to determine if the strategy of limiting access was the correct strategy. Did the nature or quality of the work change because it was a limited release? Did the quality of the work increase because someone was paying for it? If so, was it because there was budget available that could be charged against the revenue?
If so, is there further benefit of releasing to the public that which was developed in private, so to speak?
Add comment October 4th, 2007
<gregh> comments on the internet are a window into the things people yell at the tv
Add comment September 25th, 2007
I couldn’t help but think to myself that “Mikey” on American Chopper is an unfunny version of Seth Rogen.
Or is Seth Rogen a funny version of Mikey?
Is it a Canadian thing?
Add comment July 22nd, 2007
