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"A creator, such as an artist, musician, photographer, craftsperson, performer, animator, designer, videomaker, or author - in other words, anyone producing works of art - needs to acquire only 1,000 True Fans to make a living." - http://blog.kickstarter.com/post...
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Kickstarter is a site for funding art and music projects. According to their data, if a project reaches 25% of their funding goal, they almost certainly reach 100% eventually. The graph above illustrates the trend - almost no projects have achieved more than 25% and less than 100% of their funding goal. Interesting phenomenon. They argue it is due to those projects reaching a threshold of "true fans" who evangelize the project to "lesser" fans.
- Bret Taylor
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- Bret Taylor
What's the y-axis of the plot? The graph doesn't make any sense to me (could be the cold meds, but yeah)
- LANjackal
I assume it's a histogram of the number of projects according to how far they got before giving up or reaching their deadline or whatever. The shape seems like it would depend highly on the give-up/time-out mechanism and how people set their "goal" targets.
- ⓞnor
Yah, a line graph was not an appropriate representation. It is a histogram, as Dan says. The site is also really new, so the numbers may not be meaningful, and may just reflect unreasonable goals for some projects. It would be interesting to see this graph for different goal segments (i.e., do all the "successful" projects just have lower goals?)
- Bret Taylor
The numbers are interesting, but I have trouble drawing any conclusions about "true fans".
- ⓞnor
Yah, "tipping points" are common, and "true fans" might not be the reason. I agree that the connection is a bit tenuous.
- Bret Taylor
1000 true fans still seems monumental. Especially by that definition.
- Andrew Smith
dunno about true fans, but certainly micro-community dynamics
- Steve Gillmor
Andy is using the site to create "An 8-Bit Tribute to Miles Davis" ~ http://www.kickstarter.com/project... an 8bit recreation of Miles Davis, "Kind of Blue". The striking thing is he got enough money to do it without the risk of his own capital. It is also over-subscribed. An interesting funding alternative for things that require a lot of intensive up-front design & can be distributed as bits (music, software etc).
- Peter Renshaw
When everyone will pay $5 per month in global culture tax to pay for all arts, that'll provide salary for 1 artist full time for every 300 people paying this tax. But no reason all artists need to be full time artists. So consider lots of artists can be pretty happy getting only a few hundred dollars each month for monetizing just a bit of the artistic stuff they do on their free time.
- Charbax
So me being a photographer with over 2k subscribers on FriendFeed, does that mean I should be making a living? ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
remenber that Clay Shirky has the similar statement about "1,000 True Fans"
- K.D.
@Kol - The statement is a bout true fans - the die hard fanatics! They are probably only 1 in a 1000 in real life.
- Paul OFlaherty
45 Free Typographic CSS-Layouts For Your Designs - http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009...
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How the SF Giants saved a million dollars - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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I don't miss managing those old POTs PBX systems at all.
- Jesse Stay
They have saved a million bucks but they've wasted millions on poor player signings.
- beersage
Most interesting was how all the different clubs share detailed expense information. Hey, I did some work for Shoretel. Very cool.
- Todd Hoff
"first flip cam ever in here" - after seeing all that old school tech, I believe it!
- Peter Kim
LOL beersage
- Todd Hoff
Peter: I thought that was funny too. Just cause I was at AT&T park I took a phone call right in the middle of the video too. Over my AT&T run iPhone. I should have edited that out, but I'm too lazy.
- Robert Scoble
Schlough was a little thin on the details - other than being much smaller, how is this system saving them so much money? Did he say they are now using VOIP phones throughout the stadium? I would be interested in hearing how this new systems works.
- Chris Murphy
Your phones communicate digitally over an ethernet cable. It can work over your data network. So your phone boots! The sound quality is excellent which is why people pick it over other technologies. With their GUI it can integrate IM, route phone calls to follow you, dial others through the gui, hold conferences, listen to voice mail, and do lots of other cool things.
- Todd Hoff
Good one beersage. Still waiting for that ROI on Barry Zito!
- Mike Doeff
Chris: fewer inbound phone lines. Equipment uses less power. System easier to maintain (far fewer employee time to add a new line). Less proprietary wiring, etc.
- Robert Scoble
More details on Google: http://www.google.com/search...
- Robert Scoble
You have to wonder what AT&T thinks of this (the Giants play in AT&T Park).
- Mike Doeff
Mike: he hints at it: AT&T was happy to see the Giants modernize and get rid of PacBell equipment. And anyway the Giants have one of the first iPhone apps for any park.
- Robert Scoble
Hiten Shah: spy :: visualizes the conversations on Twitter, Friendfeed, Flickr, Blogs and more http://klck.me/7z - http://twitter.com/hnshah...
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Showing Emma how to play The Legend of Zelda :) http://www.flickr.com/photos...
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batman icon's mutation - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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The open, social web - http://factoryjoe.com/blog...
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awesome post, well done.
- Dustin Hoffmann
Great reading, thank you very much for posting (and pointing to) it :) *thumbs up*
- Ronald
;) thanks!
- Chris Messina
Damn, that's an *excellent* presentation. Is there a recording?
- Michael R. Bernstein
Unfortunately not.
- Chris Messina
I guess it all boils down to the point that most initiatives are not willing to work on the plumbing of the web. Everyone wants to build the house and contain people within it. The irony of course is that if you build the plumbing smart you would be part of everything, instead of "owning" a small piece of the web trying to lock users in (And I thought my posts were long ;-) )
- Alexander van Elsas
"the price of freedom is eternal vigilance" very good and precise basic "Stein" for openness. Jefferson was a great Mensch!!
- Dan Romescu
Decided to respond in a post: http://vanelsas.wordpress.com/2009... ;-)
- Alexander van Elsas
great post. The next few years are going to be interesting.
- Edwin Khodabakchian
2010web
- Robert Scoble
As mashable said it somewhere, "Facebook blocks Google Connect; There goes the Open Web!"
- Lakshman Prasad
Walled Garden - centralization - control - big money - no care about people. When we will make the next step to #capitalism20
- Dan Romescu
Robert, have you considered to share some bits of your 2010web discussions? This could bring you some interesting new members...
- Kirill Bolgarov
Kirill: June 11th all will be clear.
- Robert Scoble
June 11, eh?
- Chris Messina
Yo @invoke here's how I read Tweets and why I can read so many: http://friendfeed.com/scoblei...
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I don't know if I am doing something wrong but kyte doesn't display the video.
- Sean Powell
The more I use friendfeed, the more I fall in love with it. Only problem is, I don't know anyone else that uses it, and so all those comments and notifications I receive on Facebook can't get here :(
- Carlton Prest
Sean: do you have the latest Flash Player? It works for me.
- Robert Scoble
Here's a newer video on how I read tons of Tweets: http://friendfeed.com/scoblei...
- Robert Scoble
It looks like there's something wrong with Firefox. Works in Safari. Thx!
- Sean Powell
the audio was pretty faint on my macbook pro. it added comedic value when, at the very last minute, you discovered it was up & brought it down. lol
- sɹǝɥʇɐǝɟʞɔɐןq
Yo @invoke here's my real time Tweet stream: http://friendfeed.com/scoblei...
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In support of Andy's IE6 style sheet: http://snook.ca/archive...
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wonderful link
- Dustin Hoffmann
Congrats @tconrad on the launch of Pandora One: high quality streaming, *new* desktop app, skins, no ads, etc: http://blog.pandora.com/pandora...
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Snuggie Spin-Offs, When A Blanket With Sleeves Is Just Not Enough - http://laughingsquid.com/snuggie...
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Clipart ETC Homepage - http://etc.usf.edu/clipart...
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With a Creative Commons style license, there are some fabulous illustrations contained within.
- Jonathan Snook
Exploring the 2010 Web - http://scobleizer.com/2009...
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My blog's new design is up: http://scobleizer.com -- more to come soon as I have more fun with my blog again now that it's hosted on a Rackspace server. Thank you to Vid Luther at Rackspace for helping me get it up and running.
- Robert Scoble
lovely Robert but not very unique. I just mean, isn't it based on a fairly popular wordpress theme?
- Zee.
Zee: yes, it is. It's the Thesis theme, which is very nice. Great SEO, great foundation. I will be adding more personality to it over time.
- Robert Scoble
I like it Robert. Simple yet elegant. :) I recomend trying out the wptouch plugin for a mobile-friendly layout.
- Daynah
Surprised you went with Thesis. I was beginning to think it was too old school now that everyone is using it.
- Dickie Maxx
I don't want it to be unique right now. I wanted to tear it back down to the basics. Plus, most people read me in an RSS reader anyway so the design doesn't matter that much (or you'll see my posts here on friendfeed or Twitter or Facebook and then you just want to be able to read the damn thing when you get there.
- Robert Scoble
It's very plain but professional, it makes you focus on the content more than anything else.
- Ahmed
Dickie: it works, which is why everyone is using it.
- Robert Scoble
i love the thesis theme, dont get me wrong but i just think someone of your stature should have something custom built or heavily modified to suit you. But that's just me
- Zee.
You sometimes produces some great matter worth reading it :) I like Robert too ;)
- Mohammad Abdurraafay
Zee: what, the friendfeed component isn't enough custom? Heheh.
- Robert Scoble
when i have some time, i'm going to put together a design for ya i reckon. Because although you're not a startup, you do deserve your own scobleized design...something that no one else has
- Zee.
Zee: I'm open to it. Now that I understand what's going on in all the pieces I'm more open to playing around.
- Robert Scoble
Robert: I like the general concept but I'd like to see a dark frame around the page, instead of the whitish one you tossed in. Second thing I'd use, is the "read-more" break that sends readers into the post instead of reading the entire article in the front page. IMO it's annoying to have such a long Home page.
- Nir Ben Yona
its very simple..yet very readable. I like it :)
- Saad Kamal
but don't get me wrong, i love the thesis theme - but i just think, as it is and considering who you are, you need something more unique
- Zee.
Hey, I love the whitespaces....that's what makes me read blogs....
- Manu Srikumar
Nir: see, that's where I disagree. Most of my readers come from Google Reader, twitter, friendfeed, or later, from search engines like Google. If you are coming there to read a single article you don't want to have to click through. I +HATE+ that about TechCrunch. I assumed they did it to get more page views. I don't care about page views.
- Robert Scoble
10 Ways to Customize Thesis and Enhance Your Blog http://tinyurl.com/dkgko8 ;)
- Ahmed
It works for what it does: "Inform, Educate and Markets Your Passion" dont worry about design, you can freak it out later on with a flashy design or light colors. Thesis is very flexible, easy and you can create some serious new layout in time. I read you via Google Reader, so most time, I never to blog site anyways, keep experimenting, Tiger Woods broke his great swing to create a new one too, congrats
- Jonathan Fleming
Zee: Interesting I would have thought the other way, because who he is that Robert doesnt nee something flashy. Me on the other hand I need something to wow people.
- Dickie Maxx
Clean design. Needs a mobile or iPhone viewing option. Also wondered if too many posts showing on frontpage (this might be a consequence if accessing through an iPhone).
- Andrew Long
I use Thesis for most of my blogs - from highly customised http://www.websitedoctor.com/ to uncustomised http://sportcrazy.net/ - it's a great theme. I love using hooks
- Alastair McDermott
Nice and simple. But it must be way past your bed time. Get some sleep
- Tim Child
Hi Robert, i think it works for what you want it for, all your posts and all your updates and social spaces ... i think it works. The only thing i would say is that the social spaces section should fit inside the themes top lines. :)
- clairestokoe
By the way, if you didn't catch the Real Time Search panel discussion I linked to there, you should watch that. Very interesting stuff is cooking in that field.
- Robert Scoble
"by ADMIN", Robert? And the other articles say 'by on'! Aren't you supposed to be a tech guru? ;)
- Shéa Bennett
I like the clean look, but the page is LOOOOOONG and takes a while to load. Maybe a prolific (micro-)blogger like you should go with more of a "newspaper" (or is it "magazine"?) layout (a là Feedly) that highlights articles and topics better.
- Grey Drane
Shea: oh, crap. I forgot to log in as myself. Sigh.
- Robert Scoble
Grey: most of my posts aren't so long as this one.
- Robert Scoble
No, but the page shows a whole long list of full-text posts.
- Grey Drane
Mature, newspaperish, classic, back to basics. I do like your previous theme more; the one with you and the camera at the top.
- Tomi Itkonen
Grey: I just changed it to only display three posts. Thanks.
- Robert Scoble
Personally, I don't like lime green (any citrus colours) with that much white. Layout-wise, I like wider rather than narrow. Otherwise, fine. And the link in this post's title can't be found - http://scobleizer.com/2009...
- Mark H
Tomi: I'm going to introduce another banner photo. I will have Guy Kawaski shoot one of me on the Nimitz.
- Robert Scoble
Yeah, it loads fast enough for me but excerpts are usually preferable to full articles on the front page. They should be long enough to get your interested in seeing how it finishes, but loads of front-page text can be off-putting.
- Shéa Bennett
I'd love to see a live webcam of your browser in the right side - showing how you flip through content as you search for interesting ideas, play on FF, etc
- LPH™ and his dog P™
I'm still seeing 10 full-length articles on the front page (not three).
- Shéa Bennett
Robert: you got me right, I was referring to TC style, but I do hear ya on this one. That said, you should consider customizing the Thesis, I really liked the previous header [Edit: just noticed you're going to replace the banner photo after all].
- Nir Ben Yona
Shea: it should be three now, sorry. Mark, what link can't be found? It works here. Nir: I will bring back a header soon.
- Robert Scoble
No header please Robert. I like the simplicity.
- LPH™ and his dog P™
Looks simple and readable. But i read your blog posts in a rss reader
- Shuuro
Robert: It's the link in your original post - "Exploring the 2010 web" - I just get "Page not found" and "Sorry, no posts matched your criteria..."
- Mark H
Mark, weird. Here that links to this page which works for me: http://scobleizer.com/2009...
- Robert Scoble
Clean, streamlined, classic. With utmost respect to Shea, I prefer full articles on blogs with one primary author. I'm there to read a person's perspectives, not browse like a news service. The "by" is reading Admin, which I'd change to Robert...a little more personal. :) Other than that I like the simplicity. Oh, and also like the '2010 Web' theme. Indicates forward thinking without seeming too bandwagon-y
- AllisonWagda
Allison: I just changed that, should be working its way through the system now.
- Robert Scoble
Allison, you don't think a lot of text can be off-putting, particularly if the first (lead) article is of no interest, and you have to wade down a lot of text/paragraphs to find the next one? I think the excerpt should deliver the hook, and you click through to read more, personally. Each to their own, I guess. :)
- Shéa Bennett
Noticed you're posting as "Admin" -- should change that. Otherwise, looking great!
- CG
Great, then no complaints from here (at least from my 3 a.m. blurry eyes)
- AllisonWagda
Its minimalistic and cool.
- Zoran Vuletic
Robert, weird indeed. Tried with three browsers (and IE7 didn't like that error page at all - theme not working right there) and they all report the same. Maybe a transparent proxy somewhere along my route to your site.
- Mark H
Nice and clean Robert I like it
- Jim Lyons
I wish the friendfeed Widget wrapped comments better and also showed my likes and comments on other people's posts.
- Robert Scoble
Oh, and I got rid of the green photo. Hope that makes someone happy. :-)
- Robert Scoble
Shea, you're totally right, It can be off-putting - especially if you're looking to browse headlines and have to scroll endlessly. Maybe my opinion depends on how often he expects to blog. If more than 2 per day, I could be swayed to your side. If 1-2 per day, I'd rather have it served straight than have to click through to read the rest :)
- AllisonWagda
nice clean design but right hand column would look even better if everything was the same width
- Anita Hunt
Allison: I would expect to be one to five times a day, with bias toward one post a day.
- Robert Scoble
The Facebook Connect feature by Sociable is a neat idea. I might have to look into that.
- Shéa Bennett
I'll try to fix the widths in the morning.
- Robert Scoble
I found it nice but a bit generic for u. Can I still push for an hand of a light gray on the background? Your profile pic, top right could be more "american". About this latter some Twitter background could inspire :-)
- Daniele Beta
Robert: It's possible to get those FF comments in the widget to wrap (as they do with the "likes") -- look at the CSS for .friendfeed.widget .feed .entry .comment
- CG
Christopher: hmm, I gotta play with the CSS more. I tried playing around with it and couldn't get it to wrap right, but must not have nailed it.
- Robert Scoble
Then my vote, FWIW, is for keeping the continuous posts
- AllisonWagda
Robert: You have to "overwrite" FriendFeed's CSS for that selector -- specifically the white-space: nowrap. Hope that helps
- CG
Displaying three to five posts is a good compromise.
- Nir Ben Yona
there's more about you than the stuff in the sidebar, your tv stuff, bldg 43 stuff, wikipedia link, etc. am not sure where is the best place to put all that
- Tweet Feeds
Tweet: yeah, I'll keep tweaking it and making it simpler/nicer. Thanks to you and everyone for all the feedback!
- Robert Scoble
how do you get the disqus comments to show up on FF?
- Tweet Feeds
The fact that "It's all you" (minus "your tv stuff, bldg 43 stuff, wikipedia link, etc." as noted above) without bells and whistles is a breath of fresh air in a world where we're marketed to death by brands comnsuming every inch of space. But isn't web simplicity so 1994? (I jest.)
- This One Wild Life
Kim: hey, they had SOME good ideas back in 1994. :-)
- Robert Scoble
Tweet: Disqus is one of the services that friendfeed supports. You've got to add the service to your profile. Click "add/edit" on top of your page.
- Robert Scoble
A rock solid header banner and a custom color detail (such as a border) is all you need to add to Thesis. Keep it white. Way to go!
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Mark: right, I'm off to bed now. See ya!
- Robert Scoble
Robert: quick fix for "Admin" posts in Wordpress: Add New User: Robert, full admin rights, logout, login as Robert, Delete User: Admin, assign all posts to user Robert, done. Buy @AMcDermott beer.
- Alastair McDermott
Alastair: I just renamed the Admin account to Robert Scoble. Seems to have worked. Did I miss one?
- Robert Scoble
Robert: that's another way to do it - your userid is still admin, my way would have removed that (security by almost zero obscurity) ;)
- Alastair McDermott
Robert: you also avoid having to buy me beer :(
- Alastair McDermott
I like the simplicity; white space is good. Now you need to help the rest of us by, say, turn features such as your FriendFeed setup into WordPress plugins. And I fully agree on the choice of Thesis for a theme; great flexibility.
- Jim Courtney
Mark: switching to a self-hosted blog running on a good framework is a good investment of time; future proofing yourself
- Alastair McDermott
I've been thinking about using the Thesis theme and growing up my blog from there. I like it! About Rackspace, I probably wouldn't need it for something as small as me eh?! I've been considering it, but like I've mentioned, I'm not that big! =) Nice setup.
- Elijah Nicolas
You say that building the 2010 web is still too hard for average folks, but what about turn-key "bundles" like ning?
- Dr. Headcrash
Wordpress is written in PHP, not Python ;-)
- Jesse Stay
Love Thesis. Great theme, great SEO. VERY customizable. Can't wait to see what you do with it.
- Bob Linger
Sup Scoble, the theme you've choosed looks a lot like the one i use in my blog, simple, clean and functional. I liked it. By the way, i see you're using the friendfeed widget. A few months ago i've coded for myself a wp plugin that connects to ff api and build a widget from your feed much like that one, with the advantage that's SEO friendly, easier to customize the style and with more...
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- Diego Sana
I thought Disqus would integrate with FriendFeed but perhaps not? There are 90+ comments in here on FriendFeed and only 30 comments in Disqus on the blog? Shouldn't Disqus synchronize both the blog and the FriendFeed thread?
- Charbax
Charbax: good point. I need to figure out how to do that. I think Disqus only integrates them if you've added Disqus to your friendfeed account.
- Robert Scoble
Quiet, clean, subtle design, not sure it's you, but let us get used to it :)
- Michael Metz
mimetz: it's not very personalized, but it does work great on an iPhone! :-)
- Robert Scoble
Looks really good on the iPhone,
- Hunter
The new design is clean and "textual". Nice!
- Rick Cogley
The only think I don't like in your new blog look is the Google Friend Connect bar in the bottom.
- Miguel Caetano
I have a 1024 x 768 screen. The blog appears to be set up for a widescreen display. If I zoom out to where it fits on the screen horizontally, the text is too small to read. Sites that require that I either scroll horizontally to read, or adjust both the page zoom and the text zoom separately I often pass on by.
- Chuck Baggett
nice! i love thesis
- andy brudtkuhl
Ground-breaking article, Robert. Thanks for sharing your thoughts on this.
- Franz Binder
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