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"According to the latest Nielsen research, only 2.1 percent of the albums released in 2009 sold even 5,000 copies -- that's just 2,050 records out of nearly 100,000, and to fewer people than go to a small liberal arts college." I feel better about my dismal sales record so far. :) - Spidra Webster

I've always known this, and always been somewhat intolerant to the whining big corporate music industry guys who want to tax us to secure their revenues. They actually want a $5-20 per month per internet connection fee to make up for lost revenues. Nobody even discusses the fact that they don't then do ANYTHING to earn that money, since their only job now is to collect money for the musician (and keep the lion's share). - Jason Nunnelley

Cool. I'm checking it out now - kinda cool. - Jason Nunnelley

Wondering how practical it is to push this input into my taxes, quarterly and end of year. - Jason Nunnelley

The problem is whether it exports to the right format for tax software like Turbotax. Probably more reliable to get that info from your various financial institutions anyhow....unless you use eTrade, in which case, not very reliable at all. - Scoble, Alex Scoble

Alex, in that case Mint is slowly getting more integrated with the other Intuit software products, including Turbotax, I actually had most of mine imported from Mint into Turbotax. - Jimminy, CoG of FF

Yeah, but how flipping hard is it to let me write a check or pay a bill? - Jason Nunnelley

Oh, and Alex, I can't get my bank (Wachovia) to provide me a simple comma delimited file. You can either get it in Quicken proprietary format or key it in manually from the PDF monthly statements. - Jason Nunnelley

Jason, they do it for security reasons, that way if someone gains access to your Mint account, they can't authorize payments. Personally, I'd leave Mint if they ever did offer that service, but again I'm really anal about security. - Jimminy, CoG of FF

Turbotax doesn't like csv files anyhow, Jason. And Yodlee.com has integrated bill-pay, but I agree, why not do that from your FI of choice instead? It's more secure. - Scoble, Alex Scoble

I forgot all about Yodlee, although I've always heard good things about them. I like Mint for what it is. Nice and simple and good charts. I do most of my billpay by setting up autopay (EFT) directly withe the biller. The few bills that don't let me do that, I use my credit union's online billpay service. I'm with Jiminy - wouldn't really want Mint to have access to funds. - Laura Norvig from iPod

I thought it was pretty much common knowledge that Sennheiser makes the best headphones, so this does not come as a surprise at all. - Rene, Pro Button Pusher

Was Alex being snarky, or like me did he really expect Bose to win? - Jason Nunnelley from email

I hope Alex has more sense than thinking Bose would win ... - Rene, Pro Button Pusher

Hey! I thought they would :) I just tried some on a few weeks ago and was thinking they were quite impressive. This test rocks though. I'm definitely buying them. Plus you can use them as straight up passive headphones - no batteries or power or noise reduction required to hear your media. I like that. - Jason Nunnelley from email

I was being snarky. Bose is the pinnacle of marketing over actual performance, besting even Monster Cable in that arena. - Scoble, Alex Scoble

but only barely beating Monster. actually. Monster is guilty of alot more. - Joe The Sausage

Hehe, Joe, yes. - Scoble, Alex Scoble

like filing lawsuits against any business or person using the word Monster. even if they predate Monster Cable. - Joe The Sausage

Yeah, but that's not marketing, that's winning the legal nuisance award. - Scoble, Alex Scoble

even if they're in a totally unrelated field. - Joe The Sausage

Unfortunately, the Sennys are on ear headphones and I don't like those. Over the ear cans for me only please. - Scoble, Alex Scoble

I'd say winning the jerk award. It's bad law. The courts /shouldn't/ make such decisions, ever. - Jason Nunnelley from email

more ppl jump off the golden gate bridge in a year - San Francisco has a problem! - Chris Heath

The Golden Gate bridge is an icon, and people travel from all over to jump off that bridge -- definitely odd, definitely not a good sign for society. But, I'm not sure the population of northern California compares statistically with this company. - Jason Nunnelley from email

i'm not sure that comparison is necessary - Chris Heath

My point is that 11 people out of one company (granted, a very large company) indicates there's a culture or experience problem going on because it is an exceptionally large percentage of the staff attempting and committing suicide. - Jason Nunnelley from email

11 out of 800,000 isn't really a large percentage. I'd like to know what the trend is though. That might have show some significance to this stat - Chris Heath from iPhone

What I'd like to know is how this compares to other Chinese companies that aren't as closely scrutinized by Western media. - Victor Ganata

No, but jock teasing a jock for not hitting hard enough might be - Josh Haley

Maybe it's just funny :) - Jason Nunnelley

No, not at all. - Jandy

Would you agree though that teasing and bullying exists inside geekdom, even if it's not physical - Johnny

yes - Dan owns Comicsforge.com

Johnny - sure. But that's not what you asked. You asked if a member of one social group teasing someone in the same social group is the same thing as someone from one social group teasing someone in a DIFFERENT social group. And it's not. - Jandy

But... My point was to highlight that the great battles that happen between social groups also exists INSIDE those social groups. - Johnny

Don't look now, but I think your isomorphism is askew. :) - Ken Morley

Yeah the Zune HD is extremely impressive! It's an absolute jewel. Too bad the screen is so tiny! Microsoft is rumored to be bringing a Zune-based smartphone to market soon. It will at least be very pretty. :D - TINY REPTILIAN PYROMANIAC

Needless to say, the iPod Touch felt the most the most solid and polished by a mile. Run along little Android... but seriously I could not give up my G1 for any of the devices out now as it's too much fun to see it pick up new features every few weeks. I'll ride it out til October if I can. By then there should be much clearer successors. - TINY REPTILIAN PYROMANIAC

The Zune HD screen is 3.3 inches. I think because we were looking at that Archos 5, it seemed exceptionally small sitting right next to it. - Anika

I watch movies and TV on my G1, which is 3.2 inches and it's just too small even though the quality of the video and audio is really nice. It needs to be BIGGER by at least an inch. - TINY REPTILIAN PYROMANIAC

Your G1 doesn't do 720p like the Zune. - Anika

That's only 720p output, not on the device's screen. Minor consideration for me, as I'm more than happy with Netflix on the Xbox for the big screen TV, I don't see myself hooking it up or docking it to the big guy. That's another thing... I want something that can do 720p on the device's screen! Then I'll be happy. - TINY REPTILIAN PYROMANIAC

Oh! See, I missed that part. *duh* - Anika

interesting - cysko

Sure wish the next gen Droid was coming out soon :) - Jason Nunnelley

Me too! I really want something with a keyboard. I'm not willing to give that up unless the device is extraordinarily compelling in some other way. HTC seems to be pulling away from physical keyboards, but I think they'll always have some models with it. Motorola's got a real nice thing with the Droid it just needs to beef up a bit. - TINY REPTILIAN PYROMANIAC

Hm, Todd, I don't know - a "brand dictionary"? Of their own? But brands are born and die every day. I'm thinking there must be a better way. - Anthony Citrano

The list of trademarks would be a good source. Then they might use as candidates any phrases that show up as a noun within the context of words related to brand. If this happens a lot it's probably a brand. - Todd Hoff

Wonder about their DNS offering. - Jason Nunnelley

@Todd: I think using a list of registered trademarks would be really inefficient and inaccurate (many brands are not registered and vice versa.) There must be some other magic... ;) - Anthony Citrano

It's just one source Anthony. There are others available. I suspect most of it would still come from data mining. But the data mining algorithms need to be trained which means they need some authoritative sources to train on, so I think these might be involved in training. - Todd Hoff

perhaps but maybe they just need a "proper noun detector" - Anthony Citrano from BuddyFeed

It's become a resource hog like Nortons, McAfee, etc. Most recently it won't uninstall because it can't perform a backup of itself before uninstalling - backup fail problem. So, I have to upgrade it to uninstall. That kind of stuff drives me nuts. - Jason Nunnelley from email

I like avast - Mike Nencetti

ZOMG THE STONERS - Anthony Citrano

Not exactly a balanced news source. - Jason Nunnelley

@Jason: strange to hear him called a “source” - I guess he is. But w/r/t his site, I dunno - it's weird - source doesn't feel like the right word. But regardless, not sure what you're saying here. Matt's headline - as silly as it is - is accurate. - Anthony Citrano

Well I will give (grudging) credit to Drudge (and Newsmax) - in that they don't pretend to lack bias. They, unlike Fox, are right up front about their agenda, and don't claim "fair & balanced"...LOL. - Prosey BUTTONS!

totally unbalanced - Joe The Sausage

@Dead and @Denise: so what does that have to do with this? I'm confused. All Matt did was point to the AP story. - Anthony Citrano

Ah Anthony, my apologies -- I was just being snarky, honestly. - Prosey BUTTONS!

It's the picture of Obama with the kids that offends my reasonable taste. - Jason Nunnelley

As for the merit of the story, it's bizarre to me that some people hail this as a move in the right direction. It's a terrible policy announcement. It's virtually entrapment. They will prosecute people they want to prosecute and they will selectively use the laws to damage political enemies. Why not simply work with the FDA and Congress to change the stupid drug laws that make it a crime to grow an herb that is known to alleviate nausea and discomfort. - Jason Nunnelley

@Jason: as I said elsewhere, I am (perhaps obviously) one of those who hail it as a move in the right direction. And I think anyone who seriously considers the internals would understand why. First - the FDA has nothing to do with this, basically. The (federal) problems lie in two places: Congress and the DEA. Congress needs to change the law; this is being worked on. And the AG doesn't... more... - Anthony Citrano

Anthony, It's going to be abused. And, you walk a tight rope selling medicinal substances the government reserves the right to send you to jail for selling. What do you do when the law and order party wins the next election and you're eyeball deep in distributing plants to people that actually need them? Do you stop cold turkey or risk spending 20 years in jail or getting shot? The... more... - Jason Nunnelley

@jason: I understand all that. What I don't get is your suggested alternative from where they sit. So I'll ask this: if you were the AG - in light of the situation as it stood when you took office - what would you have done? - Anthony Citrano

Anthony, it's the public "don't worry, we're going to stop pursuing you guys" that bothers me. They're still going to have the ability and will prosecute it at will. What has the administration done to deal with the bad law? - Jason Nunnelley

Anthony, sorry - I'll answer your question. I'd silently tell my people I'm against "wasting" our resources on pursuing people that are quite often actually helping people. But, I view this as an administration position, not just the AG. And, to be blunt, the AG shouldn't get to pick and choose what law he upholds. He isn't a legislator. There is a place to have this debate. In a month... more... - Jason Nunnelley

@Jason: and you really, seriously think that the best move the President could make - on this issue, at this moment - is to "make an issue" out of marijuana decrim? Could you be serious? Why doesn't he just go barnstorming on behalf of southern Republicans instead? - Anthony Citrano

Anthony, being a southern Republican, half of us are on his side if he decrim's medical marijuana. It's a state's rights issue. That bunch of nanny state yankees in DC don't have any business telling cancer patients in LA what they can use to ease their pain, especially if they can grow it, administer it and pay for it themselves. Clarence Thomas agrees with me. [Most] Americans don't... more... - Jason Nunnelley

Well, being a libertarian myself, I share your assessment here. Most smart conservatives are on board. But also being one with my fair share of experience both with drug policy and American politics, I'd just go back to my earlier statement that, given the internals and the current political dynamic, this a move in the right direction. The next move (assuming a new DEA commish doesn't reclassify - dare we dream) belongs to the US Congress. - Anthony Citrano

Anthony, I don't mind admitting what you already know - that I find the DEA making drugs known to be good treatments unavailable without medical reasoning bewilderingly stupid. Seems like the FDA should make that call. And, since the government holds patents on canniboids, they obviously know and accept the medical legitimacy of the substance. http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi... - Jason Nunnelley

Should be legal! - orionstarr from iPhone

http://twtpoll.com/axlpwy Doing a little straw poll for fun. - Jason Nunnelley

@jason: I agree with you. also: I assume you read the DOJ memo (and hope you'll all pardon the pun) but the smoke signals throughout it couldn't have been more evident without freaking out the squares. - Anthony Citrano

I read the briefs on it, like most everyone else. http://blogs.usdoj.gov/blog... I will read it throughout though (right now). I think Buckley would be with me on the legislative process. Polling is shockingly NOT on my side though. I was surprised that the numbers were over 50% against legalization (course, this was for general consumption and not medical use). I tend to... more... - Jason Nunnelley

Thank you. *sigh* - Yolanda

Any day is a good day for some Coltrane. - ha3rvey (Hugs 50% off!)

You're welcome, Yolanda! I command a smile, now! :) - directeur

isn't it, Ha3rvey? :) - directeur

dude, i know nothing abt jazz and it seems like i'll get something from you =] thanks ;) i like this one =] - Emre A. (formerly dede)

Emre, I LOVED that kanun tune by "Göksel Baktagir" you just shared, Jazz is another kind of awesome! Welcome aboard :) - directeur

Ah yeah, that hit the spot. - Jason Nunnelley

Ahem, may I mention, the pianist on the Background is Duke Ellington, The Duke... "In a Sentimal Mood" was one of Duke fav tunes and he enjoyed to play it with "The Rabbit" also on the saxophone, but who was "The Rabbit" ? who was that musician ? ;-) - Thierry Lhôte

Duh! Sure! The Duke is the one who wrote it! And the Piano is definitely Ellignton's. That's the Duke! Ha! The Rabbit, yes I know, he's the "creamy" Johnny Hodges! "He looked like a rabbit, no expression on his face while he's playing all this beautiful music." —dixit Johnny Griffin :) - directeur

At the end of the first take of this recording, the producer went to see Trane, just to tell him that it was ok, and Trane, who was some kind of perfectionnist said "no, I want to make a second take" until Duke Ellington told him "No, John, calm down, it was PERFECT." Then John Coltrane agreed ;-) - Thierry Lhôte

Maybe I can find context if I read more of your posts, but what's "happening" right now? - Jason Nunnelley

Thursday afternoon. :P Basically there was a lot of chaos induced by my boss calling from China after 4:30pm with complex urgent tasks, but we both had somewhere to be by 5:30. It worked out in the end. A year ago I might have cried too, but happily I've learned not to care. - Lo the Baker

Gah, I hate being that frustrated. Sympathies to your coworker and kudos on the not caring (a valuable skill in its own right). - Ayşe E.

It took me a long time to realize that not caring about the company so much could make me a more valuable employee (not to mention protect my sanity). Stupid protestant work ethic! - Lo the Baker

You know, it's frustrating caring more about someone's business than they do. I can't tell you how many times I get angry because I try to tell someone to play for eventual challenges only to have them freak on me when that eventuality arrives and they've made zero preparations. - Jason Nunnelley

Jason, that sounds very frustrating indeed! I get stuck because the owner (this is a small biz) now finally says he values my opinion, but if I disagree with him he sometimes/often (unpredictably) takes it as a personal attack. So he'll say "what do you think, I value your input" and I wonder "does he really want to know or does he just want mindless agreement?" I can be a yes man or a useful critic, but it's hard to know which job I have today :P - Lo the Baker

My experience is that people like just enough tough honesty to let themselves believe you're honestly agreeing with them most of the time. - Brad Greer

Brad has it figured out. - Jason Nunnelley

Brad has everything figured out, it's his most annoying quality :D - Lo the Baker

Brad, I thought about it for a while, and I think the reason I struggle with that is that it feels like fundamental dishonesty to me. To feign agreement with a stupid idea is to suggest that I approve of it as wise. I'm not sure why that upsets me so much. Intellectual arrogance perhaps? Or the extreme aversion to dishonesty brainwashed into me by 12-steppers? - Lo the Baker

Lo, I suffer from that as well. It's why I just avoid employment where I have to stroke egos. It's cost me much. It's about 10% principles and 90% I just don't want to compromise on inner things like opinions and beliefs. You don't get to tell me what to think. Compromising principled behavior has never proven profitable for me. Experience tells me someone gets hurt. If you are... more... - Jason Nunnelley

Good point, Jason. The few times I've been asked to do something I consider unethical were definitely the low points of unemployment. It's rough b/c the asker obviously believes the action is perfectly fine, so how can I object without seeming judgmental of the other person's morality? Such a conundrum, but I can think of worse problems I suppose. And you're so right about the cost of rewards, that's probably why I have an initial mistrust of the conventionally successful. - Lo the Baker

I hope you didn't construe my observation as an endorsement of sycophantism. Just because people want to hear yes all the time doesn't mean you should change your answer. Hell, I'm as guilty as anyone of having prideful opinions that turn out to be wrong upon examination of the evidence. Does that mean I want my work to suffer to save my ego? Nope. - Brad Greer

Brad, I think the problem is that for most instances where this comes up (for me anyway) there is not a lot of evidence either way. I think that the boss' attitude towards new customers alienates them and hurts our relationship. I think that his feuds with various people are not inevitable as he claims, and they're more harmful than he realizes. Maybe this is ego, but I base a lot of it... more... - Lo the Baker

Anthony, he's already cancelled his iPhone plan. - Jimminy, CoG of FF

But, can I get it on Verizon? :P - Jason Nunnelley

Can you get what on Verizon? The DROID is exclusive to Verizon. - Jimminy, CoG of FF

Jimminy, tells you how much I pay attention to phones. I didn't know. Maybe I should frequent a mobile website ever once in a while. Feel free to suggest one. - Jason Nunnelley

LOL, I'm not a phone person, but the DROID sounded pretty sexy so I looked into it. - Jimminy, CoG of FF

Joel - About 1200 people are following the Twitter Team list at this point, so it must be at least that many people. Anyone new to lists is invited to follow it, so it's a reliable indicator. - Mitch

Any idea how they determined who won the list lotto? - Jason Nunnelley

so what is the trajectory?. How far do we fall? - Karma Martell

@Karma: well, I know you can't go below zero... - Anthony Citrano

Gee Anthony, you are such a comfort - Karma Martell

@Karma: if that's what you're looking for, there's always fiction. ;) - Anthony Citrano

Serious question Anthony: what are you doing to secure your personal wealth? - Jason Nunnelley

Buy a bunch of gold doubloons and roll around in them Scrooge McDuff-style. - Lo the Baker

No time for fiction, my dear, too busy busting it. - Karma Martell

@Jason: mostly prayer. ;-p - Anthony Citrano