Disqus - Friends of ksablan

Re: That Was Quick

PKafka — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 18:30:06 -0000

Ryan, that "girl" is a VC with a Harvard MBA.

Re: A VC: As Long As We Are Rethinking Yahoo's Board

PKafka — Sat, 17 May 2008 16:56:58 -0000

Natalie Bancroft. But mostly because I'm trying out Disqus. Don't feel that strongly about it: Can someone tell me when a board has had a significant *positive* effect on a large public company?

Re: A VC: This Is A Mistake

PKafka — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 09:42:10 -0000

Not a mistake from band/managment's persepctive -- assuming that it's their call, and not Sony BMG, who has the band on contract. If you're interested in making money today, you still have to sell CDs, because that's where the overwhelming majority of dollars are. And Wal-Mart is one of the biggest players. The amount of $ WMT will generate for this deal, either via an advance or sales, is much more than they could get somewhere else.

Bad deal for a band trying to create a long-lived career? Sure. But this AC/DC we're talking about it - they're well-established, and they don't need more exposure. This is the same reason that Garth Brooks did this years ago (and no one said boo then).

Re: This is going to be BIG! - AC/DC Album to be distributed exclusively through WalMart (and Limewire)

PKafka — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 17:39:47 -0000

really? you were going to buy the new ac/dc album but now you're not? hmmm.

Re: Velib Is Awesome

PKafka — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 12:30:29 -0000

Very jealous. Wanted to try this when I was there few months ago, but Velib didn't like my credit card. Don't see why people skeptical about this working in U.S. Credit card deposit ensures that you don't abuse it, and theft discouraged by fact that the bikes are so clearly identified with system - if you've got one, it's clearly stolen goods. My only concern was upkeep - who makes sure tires inflated, etc?

Re: Twitter buys Summize: Confirmed

PKafka — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 22:22:23 -0000

Hey all. Think Dan went over this w/Charlie already, but fwiw, we're told by someone close to company that story isn't true. Which doesn't mean that deal of some sort hasn't happened, or that acquisition isn't about to happen, etc. Just no deal yet. Or at least not as of 5:30pm Monday.
http://www.alleyinsider.com...

Re: Blogging's Dead, Long Live Blogging

PKafka — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 13:29:28 -0000

Fred, we're just talking about guitars here, right? You can play them well, or badly. You can write your own music, or cover other people's tunes. And you can play because you like to play, and/or play because you want other people to hear you play, and/or play because you want to make a living playing. Or any combination of the above. Alt take: Message not the medium.

Re: Constraints and Rules

PKafka — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 09:41:02 -0000

Was thinking about this a lot as I was writing about David's company. Very smart tie-in of of Twitter and 8tracks.

Re: Constraints and Rules

PKafka — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 11:32:23 -0000

No one's figured out how to make "interactive webcasting" work at any scale so far. See: Pandora threatening to throw in the towel. If David succeeds, he'll eventually have the same problems -- he'll need to produce the equivalent of $30 in revenue for every 1,000 views, and that is a tall order.

Re: Constraints and Rules

PKafka — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 20:52:31 -0000

Very easy for us (SAI) to do - we insert a single line of html into the post. We ran into a problem with one of Fred's posts (funky url, i think), but beyond that it's been easy. Don't know how much work it took on Disqus' end but gather it was relatively straightforward for them as well.

The only snag we've found for the re-posting site is that we don't have any control over the comment string, so if for any reason we wanted to edit something, we can't do it.

Re: Andrew Weissman

PKafka — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 08:56:44 -0000

So great, never gets old, no matter whose version it is. That's the definition of a classic, no?

Re: Coolfer Is Five

PKafka — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 15:20:51 -0000

5 years running your own blog -- your own blog that's really good? That's impressive. Congrats.

Re: Twitter blacklists Mad Men characters (some of them)

PKafka — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 14:53:16 -0000

We're proud to introduce @fakedondraper . more here: http://www.alleyinsider.com...

Re: Twitter blacklists Mad Men characters (some of them)

PKafka — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 18:50:57 -0000

Hello again, @don_draper! Goodbye, @fakedondraper! All is well again http://bit.ly/omgmadmentwit...

Re: [bijan sabet] the personal tumblelog of Bijan Sabet

PKafka — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 10:49:37 -0000

Great movie. And that line you caught is part of a sophisticated and really interesting theme that most people don't pay attention to: The push-and-pull between creativity and the real world, and whether "artists" (broadly defined) should pay attention to the broader world around them. Obviously, I liked it a lot.

Re: Axes To Grind

PKafka — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 11:24:19 -0000

No tricks of the trade to offer here, I think. Just do what you're already doing: Listen to people who seek you out, take note of what they're saying, and trust your gut. But be aware that just because someone has an axe to grind doesn't mean they're wrong, or that there's no underlying story/truth/whatever there. And as you probably know, if people didn't have axes to grind, journalists would have a lot less to write about.

Re: Axes To Grind

PKafka — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 12:19:20 -0000

That's just the judgment call we make all day every day. Often we (media) get accused of giving axe grinders a platform too often (especially those of us who work on the Web as opposed to print) but in my mind better to air it out than to let it fester. Interesting that in this case it was the WSJ who aired it out.

Re: Andrew Weissman

PKafka — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 20:48:17 -0000

story, please.

Re: New Speedway Boogie

PKafka — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 16:56:57 -0000

Old? New? Sounds like circa 89-93 when hip hop was grreat grreat grreat and every other song sampled James Brown/Clyde Stubblefield, who I believe got absolutely not one cent for his "Funky Drummer" beat. Madison, Wisconsin, represent.

Re: We Need Price Transparency In The Splurge

PKafka — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 10:28:21 -0000

I get that some brave/smart/lucky people will end with real bargains during the coming fire sale. But isn't part of the problem here that no one really has a good handle on what, exactly, the crap assets are? Not nearly as straightforward as buying a 80% occupied office building or a portfolio of light industrial properties from the RTC...

Re: Is the link economy really broken?

PKafka — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 08:07:47 -0000

Names, pls! Who's the offending blog?

Re: Nick Denton: Master of deception

PKafka — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 18:17:58 -0000

Hey Mathew. We're crossing lots of streams today! Re: My headline - Nick fired 19 people. The fact that he hired 10 more doesn't change the fact that he canned 19.

Re: Nick Denton: Master of deception

PKafka — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 18:50:28 -0000

But that's not odd. Nick still laid off 19 people! It'd be one thing if he was moving people from title to another - something I thought he'd be doing. But the three people at Valleywag, the tk people at Defamer, etc, etc are out of work.

Re: A quick list

PKafka — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 18:35:44 -0000

Been to about half of these and each one of them is absolutely on my must-go list.

Re: New Speedway Boogie

PKafka — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 07:54:43 -0000

not quite as exciting as this buzzcocks video:
http://www.youtube.com/watc...