Great analysis in here about the nature of publics, and newspapers old model:
they came to believe that producing a common edition for everyone is their raison d'être, forgetting it arose as a limitation of their technology. Fitting psychologist Abraham Maslow's statement that "If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail," the editorial production limitation of Gutenberg's technology has led most newspaper editors to believe that they set the 'common agenda' for their community and likewise that their community's readership is somehow homogenous because it reads the same newspaper edition on any given day. - Kevin Marks
I got a Tru Blood vial and have still not opened it up. Should I drink it? Heh. Love being the target of a fun viral. Don't get too many crazy ideas, you PR monkeys. HBO did their research FIRST and sent the stuff to relevant people. (People most likely down with vampire shit, lol) - Eric Rice
“Startup idea: On a site enter in birthdays for your friends/family. The site will print and mail a real birthday card that will arrive in time. You pay $2 per card sent. Would you use this?”
What if you could use your phone to take a photo of a handwritten note, and the site would clean it up, put it on a card, and send it? - Jim Norris
I would love this... I would want it to send a bunch of flowers or some such as well... - Bindu Reddy
jackcards is great! i'm using it now. thx mike doeff - peter
Will receiving a birthday card mean anything if it no longer means you remembered? - Amit Patel
Every X% of the time (X is based on a personality survey taken at signup) it will send the card late with an apology. - Larry Greenfield
Probably not because I never remember to do this early enough. Now, if you could promise same day delivery for an extra $1, I'm game. P.S. you should offer to include gift cards (I bet you could get some kind of commission from places like Best Buy, REI, Target, etc). - Michael Leggett
love the same day feature for those like Michael...and me! - peter
It should mail the card to *me*, along with a stamped, addressed envelope for the recipient. I take it out of my mailbox, sign it, write "Happy Birthday!", and stick it right back in the mailbox. I'm imagining some sort of netflix-esque mailer... - Doug Zongker
do you think your friends know your handwriting? your family might recognize it. wondering if the handwriting could come from someone who isn't you. - peter
Knowing me I would enter a date that was too late. - j1m
sounds like a great app for a social network that already knows your friends birthdays - Kevin Marks
nah, i probably wouldn't use this. i like giving people real things. - Michael Sippey
i dont think this would work on a social network. it's more about your most important relationships. like your mom. - peter
i tried jackcards.com. cool concept but implementation needs some work. took me too long to schedule a card. - peter
How about calendar events that trigger *actual* events? Whether it's online bill payments or sending birthday cards, triggering arbitrary services / APIs based on a time/date you put on your Google Calendar could be interesting. - Jonathan Terleski
google calendar - who uses that? muhahahha - peter
no. these days for generic "happy birthday" greetings i send a $1 facebook cupcake (or some other gift). For people i really care about i send a text message (haaha, but uhm true) and for those i really care about i send a usually belated gift in addition to calling them and singing to them (really off key) on the actual day. I have a google calendar that's just for birthday's which reminds me of the date. Most people i get "day of" reminders, for the people i will gift or call i set up multiple reminders. - Natala Menezes
Apparently Canada is too politically unstable for data centres. Mind you, my Canadian friends say they can't use Google Docs because it's hosted in the US and they don't trustt he US Govt. - Kevin Marks
“require standardization of things like identity and secure JavaScriptable social network mashups”. - that what OpenSocial is all about, especially with Caja and Friend Connect in the mix - Kevin Marks
Artur Bergman told me that the idea of Wikia was a place to keep all the stuff the deletionists kept removing from Wikipedia. I still don't think that running a gauntlet of self-important barrack-room lawyers who use press publication as a surrogate for checking references with sources is the best way to decide what is notable. - Kevin Marks
An unctuous lexicon for the loquacious, wrought through nomenclature hubris for pecuniary chicanery. Is using "should" like this obsequious or supercilious? The taxonomy oligarchy could have been more abstemious with the latinate and greek terms. - Kevin Marks
An unctuous lexicon for the loquacious, wrought through nomenclature hubris for pecuniary chicanery. Is using "should" like this obsequious or supercilious? The taxonomy oligarchy could have been more abstemious with the latinate and greek terms. - Kevin Marks
"Video games have turned everyone under the age of 20 into experts on military history and tactics; 12-year-olds on school buses argue about the right way to deploy onagers and cataphracts while outflanking a Roman triplex acies formation. " - Kevin Marks
