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"There's the P2 theme for "faster blogging" which is nice. It's good for posting snippets about projects. So, faster yes, but I wouldn't liken it to Twitter as some have done. demo http://p2demo.wordpress.com real example - dev blog for wordpress.tv http://dev.wordpress.tv" - carl morris

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"Other than suggest George Orwell's Politics and the English Language should be obligatory reading, I will offer... Keep me <span style="text-decoration: line-through;">in</span> out the loop: useful for when people copy you into every single cc email - needlessly but "just in case" <span style="text-decoration: line-through;">On the same page</span> On the same book a more thorough form of mutual understanding <span style="text-decoration: line-through;">Going forward</span> Going forward backwards: i.e. walking backwards in order to face lessons of the past while advancing <span style="text-decoration: line-through;">Pro-active</span> Pro-inactive discovering the benefits of rest and idleness Next I need to make an observation about the box cliche... If we talk about the original cliche and everybody thinks outside the box, then somebody needs to think inside the box. Because the situation of the (now empty) inside is isomorphic to the original situation we had in the days of..." - carl morris

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"Eric Schmidt has said they will never advertise on the front page, despite its obvious value, as they want to retain their reputation for impartiality. Wallace and Gromit was UK-only, I'll ask my friend at Aardman how big the traffic spike was!" - carl morris

"In such a list, some might say neglecting to put a letter "s" at the end of the word "film" is a bold - and possibly pretentious - claim to make. But it gets my approval." - carl morris

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"evasion" not "avoidance" you n00b - carl morris

"Stef, I like what you and the community have done, it's fantastic and a great example for others. When you say BCCDIY has an "open source ethos", are you referring to the Github and the licence for the software you've written and adapted? (Is it GPL?) I think it's worth having some precision about different kinds of work and value contribution. I've been thinking about open source a lot and I don't think it helps understanding to refer to anything other than code as open source. Volunteering your time for a one-off installation is something you decide to do because you're a decent sort of guy or girl. Or I guess because of other reasons like getting a "portfolio" that leads to paid work. Or because you enjoy it. Or because you're a masochist! Whatever the motivation(s), I don't think "open source" can sensibly be used to describe this gesture. It's maybe a metaphor at best. I'll talk about GPL because that's the licence I'm most familiar with. And it's the licence WordPress uses. The..." - carl morris

"I think there are loads of opportunities to do hosted services based on, say, WordPress. Like wordpress.com but for more specific niches. For example, museum website "in a box". Or band website in a box. Or restaurant website in a box. And you could charge people for premium services: use your own domain name, tech support, etc. Or customisability. Edublogs is the second largest hosted WordPress blog service I know about - after wordpress.com" - carl morris

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"I should also add that Yahoo do some really cool things. I use Delicious and Yahoo Pipes every day. I'm not a big photographer but I know a lot of people who use Flickr every day. So Yahoo "owning" some of those successes would be a start. Trouble for them is they slapped a Yahoo logo on to Flickr and it backfired - users complained. Most of the complainers were paying pro account holders. As far as Yahoo Search is concerned I only use it for the cache because it seems to persist longer than Google's. I would switch to a Yahoo feed reader in a flash if it were better than Google's (lots of ways to improve there, I'm sure)." - carl morris

"I should also add that Yahoo do some really cool things. I use Delicious and Yahoo Pipes every day. I'm not a big photographer but I know a lot of people who use Flickr every day. So Yahoo "owning" some of those successes would be a start. Trouble for them is they slapped a Yahoo logo on to Flickr and it backfired - users complained. Most of the complainers were paying pro account... more... - carl morris

"I was being a bit glib there but I think we're more or less in agreement. A big expensive advert might just draw attention to your failures rather than making anyone think you're any good. I'm all for real-world marketing. Yes, it's about expanding the reach to non-online people and others who might not be paying attention. That way you stand a chance of expanding the overall market. Press coverage is said to be worth five times more than the equivalent advertising column inches (source: a PR person, ha ha). Readers trust press more because they instinctively know that you have to be doing something notable to score press coverage. Advertising can just be bought. Ergo, do something useful in order to get press first. If there's any value in advertising it's to boost the awareness that's already there through press coverage." - carl morris

"Not bad at all." - carl morris

"In the online world, advertising is for losers. Google hardly ever advertise. Just be really really useful and unmissable." - carl morris

I don't think her sums are correct. - carl morris

"PR exists to convince the majority at the wrong end of the celebrity-power law that the minority at the other end deserve to be there." Err, you are wrong - carl morris

"I assume you saw the peerless XKCD's take on this? Statistics doesn't do this. But every subject has its limits? Also, do you know about Gödel's Incompleteness Theorems because they also concern the limitations of mathematics and logical systems?" - carl morris

"All absolutely true. Until you blogged about it." - carl morris

"Do you write code then? I used to..." - carl morris

"Do you write code then? I used to..." - carl morris

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"I want your opinion... :-)" - carl morris

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