Bill Seitz

"It refers to an approach where the back-end of your service *can* be automated, and *must* be automated to be profitable and scale, but when you start out you do that part "by hand" to save that up-front automation development cost that might be useless if nobody actually wants the service." - Bill Seitz

"Hmm: 1. the students in the video didn't seem afraid, more curious and hungry for opportunity/knowledge as a positive. 2. Mitra makes the specific point that the fear triggered by testing/grading *reduces* your learning potential." - Bill Seitz

"So, should you sell as a moral principle?" - Bill Seitz

"I agree it comes down to culture, which *can* flourish or not independent of affordances. But I think the "freedom" of FreeLinks "encourages" a culture of not considering WikiWord re-use, and ignoring the SharedLanguage ecology." - Bill Seitz

"You seem to be implying that the popularity of the video is due to promoting-interventions by institutions with an axe to grind (per your references to TED and Harlem Shake). Yet you don't provide a single piece of data to support that gloss. Ryan Holiday and Tim Ferriss give lots of info on how stories jump from online media to the mainstream. There doesn't seem to be as much as axe-grinding involved as there is buzz-chasing. (Though certainly there are exceptions.) http://thenextweb.com/video/20..." - Bill Seitz

"YahooNews used to do "Full Coverage" on certain pieces where they'd curate a bunch of current related stories, and add links to related websites. Since the pieces were curated from other sources, they didn't cross-link. http://web.archive.org/web/200..." - Bill Seitz

"PandoMonthly takes a single video interview and breaks it up into chunks, provides a text summary narrative for each chunk that often links to other pages covering other chunks. (Again, not ideal, but maybe a hint...) http://pandodaily.com/2013/05/..." - Bill Seitz

"In print you sometimes get "special reports" which are clusters of related stories. Since they're in print they "come out" at the same time, so it's not quite the same... http://www.economist.com/print..." - Bill Seitz

"I love the model of constructing a story over time. I think it would be better to present them as a cluster of heavily linked shorter pieces, rather than sticking sequential updates at the top. You could probably manage a "table of contents" that would run as a sidebar in each piece, as well." - Bill Seitz

"For in-school writing (vs college applications, standardized tests, etc.), i'm a big volume of high-volume writing with *peer* reviewing. http://webseitz.fluxent.com/wi..." - Bill Seitz

"I disagree with your optimism about Twitter letting developers touch the feed. I think their business model will probably depend on them controlling that experience heavily." - Bill Seitz

"In fact, you could go the other way and say: "if your niche has a price of x/click, you need to charge 25x/mo for your service". Are you finding $2/click anywhere? So if you have to pay $5/click for traffic, you need to charge $125/mo!" - Bill Seitz

"The obvious-though-unstated corollary is that "consumer" level apps can't use advertising to grow, since $5/mo allows for only $0.20CPC of which there ain't none." - Bill Seitz

"Opened my outline in my Android phone running the Chrome browser. Could select text and type, etc. but could not seem to drag nodes to re-arrange (though I could select a whole node from its handle)." - Bill Seitz

"Confused about an outline's name vs title? My first "file" became untitled.opml and even after changing its Title, the Name seems stuck there. And some process of closing and re-opening makes it look like Title is still untitled.opml...." - Bill Seitz

"Very cool, starting to play." - Bill Seitz

"Your conspiracy theory reminds me of the "Rule of Three" from fanfic "Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality". "That was when Father had told Draco about the Rule of Three, which was that any plot which required more than three different things to happen would never work in real life. Father had further explained that since only a fool would attempt a plot that was as complicated as possible, the real limit was two." http://hpmor.com/chapter/24" - Bill Seitz

"This seems like it's triggering the TooManyChoices/FOMO sub-brains more than anything else..." - Bill Seitz

"It smells to me the #2 crowd wants to return to the 60s, with little accountability, but more money (smaller classes, more teacher development, etc.). In fact, I'd consider making this #1 as it's in some-sense the most retro tribe..." - Bill Seitz

"here's a piece from 2008 on Bloomberg's general support for votech high schools: http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes...." - Bill Seitz

"btw you might find the list of high school names in NYC interesting http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L..." - Bill Seitz

"(Marginally-related side-note: the target for schools these days is the AP test in Computer Science, which uses Java.)" - Bill Seitz

"Once the decision was made to make the school open-admission, that would have changed everything. I don't think that was Fred's idea." - Bill Seitz

"Personal instream-filtering (which tweets, pages, emails to bother reading). Do you trust twitter and facebook to do this?" - Bill Seitz

"JohnRobb had a series of posts a month or 2 ago about creating a P2P package delivery network with drones." - Bill Seitz

"You can put ads in your RSS stream (e.g. within each "article"), though you can't personalize, nor can you be as obnoxious as everyone has become in their website ad layout..." - Bill Seitz

"Heh, I did that same polygon thing decades back on the MurrayHill BellLabs computers at ExplorersClub meetings (in between HuntTheWumpus and StarTrek games). Unfortunately the limits of the float type meant I only got ~5 digits of accuracy before the errors built up and my calculation regressed to 3.0." - Bill Seitz

"Is the scaling issue in the ORM itself or in the creation of a monolithic SQL db which can't be easily scaled-out because of joins? If joins are the issue, what about a framework (like web.py) which gives you most of the framework goodness without requiring an ORM to talk to SQL?" - Bill Seitz

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