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"Residential rent expenses might be a bigger issue than office-space rent. Ironically, supposedly-renter-friendly policies (like hassles in evicting non-payers) keep the supply of non-luxury residences low..." - Bill Seitz

"The Edge folks had an interesting discussion back in 2003 that touched a lot on what should be in curricula. http://webseitz.fluxent.com/wiki...... http://www.edge.org/q2003..." - Bill Seitz

"It smells like the big meta-question is what you are selling to whom. If you are trying to sell software to enterprises and want to reduce objection-oriented discussions, then avoiding the word "social" probably makes sense. On the other hand, if you're trying to either change the ways that enterprises think about people and processes, or that people outside enterprises think about the future of economies and organizations, then a rich discussion about embracing implicit knowledge and human pattern-recognition and emergent group-forming, all via loosely-structured social software, seems more appropriate." - Bill Seitz

"I'm a little dubious about the checklist really solving the underlying problem, which really seems to be about technology maturity matching vendor priorities. If you *did* have a long/detailed spec list, I suspect that half the venues would kid themselves that they could meet it, and the other half would jack up the price because you're asking for weeks of work which would seem to the venue as a one-off expense because nobody else is clearly/explicitly demanding that same level of infrastructure quality. Way back in the early days of Medscape I kept us out of the training business because I could see that doing it the way we wanted (1 PC for every 2 students, sharing a clean broadband connection, big PC projector) wasn't going to happen in 1996 except with us shipping and installing lots of hardware ourselves, which wasn't going to work economically." - Bill Seitz

"PatKane calls this meso-blogging. http://www.theplayethic.com/2009......" - Bill Seitz

"This reminds me of Bill Gurley's discussion of what Google is doing to the GPS market with free turn-by-turn navigation: "less than free". http://abovethecrowd.com/2009......" - Bill Seitz

"Why treat this as a specialized-server requirement, vs maybe talking to existing file-sharing services like .mac, drop.io, etc.?" - Bill Seitz

"By the way, Droidie blog doesn't have an icon! Also, if you click on an RSS icon in Firefox, doesn't give you a subscribe pulldown choice, which remembers a local app (plus giving you some web-based options)?" - Bill Seitz

"Is there page anywhere describing apps that build on top of TiddlyWeb?" - Bill Seitz

"I'd have concerns about the overhead of every db hit from my app-server going over the public net." - Bill Seitz

"I'm not sure what this "platform" is offering beyond the web itself? Consistent structured reviews/ratings?" - Bill Seitz

So you're saying, really, anything. As long as it's something. ;) - Joel Bennett

We live in an economy blessed with freedom and competition. Why change that now, free up the property AND build a fantastic monument to help promote innovation. I witnessed some incredible concepts for the space. Manhattan is chock full of awesome, it's tough to heal from a never closing wound. We can always remember. - Mark Essel from iPhone

"Part of the problem comes from wanting "health insurance" to pay for every doctor visit. That's a group purchase system, not insurance. BTW, Peter Drucker said that we would have had universal health insurance during the Eisenhower administration, but the UAW blocked it (wanting it to be a "benefit" *they* could take credit for, specifically for their members). http://webseitz.fluxent.com/wiki......" - Bill Seitz

"I think, as you note, the real problem is that many people will not check the information available: it's more efficient *for them* to just ask. Some solutions already available * FriendFeed groups * Dopplr * http://search.twitter.com/search......" - Bill Seitz

"So you're taking the objection of an existing insurer seriously? (I'm sure there is some "deceptive marketing" go on, because people are new at shopping for high-deductible insurance. But that's not a great excuse for no-change (or no-incremental-change)...)" - Bill Seitz

"Hey, it only cost $7k to make ElMariachi! http://webseitz.fluxent.com/wiki..." - Bill Seitz

"Is this for online-use only, or might they actual buy TV ad-time to show? The focus on exact-duration spots makes me wonder..." - Bill Seitz

"A flip-flopper! It would be cool to know who these folks are... (aides vs grunts) (the way those 3 heads are at the same level and all chopped off, seems intentional...) (hey is that Dick Cheney?)" - Bill Seitz

"We paleo-wiki types remind me of the old LotusAgenda and EccoPro guys, preaching to the people who don't know what they're missing. One argument is that wikis moved beyond the use of people who like to think/reflect, into the greater number who don't." - Bill Seitz

"JasonKolb has similar ideas... http://www.jasonkolb.com/weblog......" - Bill Seitz

"Except that his preferred solution seems to be to force doctors into forming cooperatives that self-police for the common good, like the Mayo Clinic. The fact that most of those groups would *not* behaving like Mayo is ignored." - Bill Seitz

"Note that FriendFeed can bring in your Disqus posts as well as tweets. Which isn't the same thing as what you're suggesting, but another spin..." - Bill Seitz

It would be cool if your friends were localized by zip code and you could change the status of them (for mobile) alerts in mass too (although maybe only for travelers and conference goers) - then you could see what is going on in places as you move around (like Facebook's location app, albeit that location is static to the town you live in) - Brad_King

Are you asking Twitter to innovate? Not going to happen. :) - Louis Gray

"In retrospect, it would have been good to include at the meeting (a) a homeschooling parent, and (b) an un-schooling advocate." - Bill Seitz

"In retrospect, it would have been good to include at the meeting (a) a homeschooling parent, and (b) an un-schooling advocate." - Bill Seitz

"I suspect that SMS provided, along with novelty, a rationalization for the message-size-limit which drove the cultural acceptance of tiny posts. If you had tried to launch a microblogging service without SMS, I think you would have had too much resistance." - Bill Seitz

maybe someone's a Young and the Restless fan? - Bill Seitz

@bruces is just showing how long he's been online - Bill Seitz

"Attach a one line comment convention with a new GUID to any code snippet you publish on the web. This ties the snippet of code to its author and any subsequent clones. A trivial search for the code snippet GUID would identify every other copy of the snippet on the web" - l.m.orchard

PurpleNumbers! - Bill Seitz

"Large-scale student-teaching: Bell-Lancaster Method. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki..." - Bill Seitz