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Re: TiddlyWeb Dev/Deploy Workshop

BillSeitz — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 20:15:58 -0000

Is there page anywhere describing apps that build on top of TiddlyWeb?

Re: Hosted Mongo

BillSeitz — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 09:56:08 -0000

I'd have concerns about the overhead of every db hit from my app-server going over the public net.

Re: The Web and Education: We Need Scale!

BillSeitz — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 10:45:20 -0000

I'm not sure what this "platform" is offering beyond the web itself? Consistent structured reviews/ratings?

Re: Health care in a nutshell (Scripting News)

BillSeitz — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 08:40:33 -0000

Part of the problem comes from wanting "health insurance" to pay for every doctor visit. That's a group purchase system, not insurance.

BTW, Peter Drucker said that we would have had universal health insurance during the Eisenhower administration, but the UAW blocked it (wanting it to be a "benefit" *they* could take credit for, specifically for their members).

http://webseitz.fluxent.com/wiki/z2003-08-11-Dr...

Re: There's a missing product (Scripting News)

BillSeitz — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 19:35:23 -0000

I think, as you note, the real problem is that many people will not check the information available: it's more efficient *for them* to just ask.

Some solutions already available
* FriendFeed groups
* Dopplr
* http://search.twitter.com/search?q=davewiner+re...

Re: Frederic's corner - mobile, social media, politics

BillSeitz — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 10:34:54 -0000

So you're taking the objection of an existing insurer seriously?

(I'm sure there is some "deceptive marketing" go on, because people are new at shopping for high-deductible insurance. But that's not a great excuse for no-change (or no-incremental-change)...)

Re: Need Some 15 and 30 Second Spots? Hire Your User Base.

BillSeitz — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 16:46:23 -0000

Hey, it only cost $7k to make ElMariachi!

http://webseitz.fluxent.com/wiki/RobertRodriguez

Re: Need Some 15 and 30 Second Spots? Hire Your User Base.

BillSeitz — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 16:41:22 -0000

Is this for online-use only, or might they actual buy TV ad-time to show? The focus on exact-duration spots makes me wonder...

Re: Fred Wilson Dot VC

BillSeitz — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 06:57:17 -0000

A flip-flopper!

It would be cool to know who these folks are... (aides vs grunts) (the way those 3 heads are at the same level and all chopped off, seems intentional...) (hey is that Dick Cheney?)

Re: Synthesis

BillSeitz — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 20:53:48 -0000

We paleo-wiki types remind me of the old LotusAgenda and EccoPro guys, preaching to the people who don't know what they're missing.

One argument is that wikis moved beyond the use of people who like to think/reflect, into the greater number who don't.

Re: Internet Bank of Content

BillSeitz — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 19:36:07 -0000

JasonKolb has similar ideas...

http://www.jasonkolb.com/weblog/2006/08/reinven...

Re: A quick overview of why healthcare is so expensive

BillSeitz — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 18:43:23 -0000

Except that his preferred solution seems to be to force doctors into forming cooperatives that self-police for the common good, like the Mayo Clinic. The fact that most of those groups would *not* behaving like Mayo is ignored.

Re: Twitter as coral reef, cont'd (Scripting News)

BillSeitz — Fri, 29 May 2009 10:43:02 -0000

Note that FriendFeed can bring in your Disqus posts as well as tweets. Which isn't the same thing as what you're suggesting, but another spin...

Re: Hacking Education

BillSeitz — Mon, 18 May 2009 08:18:01 -0000

In retrospect, it would have been good to include at the meeting (a) a homeschooling parent, and (b) an un-schooling advocate.

Re: Why Didn't PubSub Become Twitter?

BillSeitz — Thu, 14 May 2009 11:05:19 -0000

I suspect that SMS provided, along with novelty, a rationalization for the message-size-limit which drove the cultural acceptance of tiny posts. If you had tried to launch a microblogging service without SMS, I think you would have had too much resistance.

Re: Let The Students Teach

BillSeitz — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 17:36:02 -0000

Large-scale student-teaching: Bell-Lancaster Method.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell-Lancaster_method

Re: /ambivalence

BillSeitz — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 10:03:02 -0000

And any sufficiently advanced cluelessness is indistinguishable from malice.

Re: If Twitter Is Your RSS Reader ...

BillSeitz — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 20:12:09 -0000

You don't need a room, just an account, and you tie your twitter acct and your blog feed to it. Then both show up. (Then add last.fm, delicious, flickr, goodreads....)

Re: Selling The Company Back To The Founders

BillSeitz — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 16:20:39 -0000

I'm pretty sure there's enough uptake that you can make free all-VoIP calls amongst Gizmo, asterisk, and lots of campus VoIP systems, right?

Re: It’s The Netbook, Stupid

BillSeitz — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 09:11:27 -0000

Pls nudge toward SIP-based VoIP instead of Skype.

Re: Selling The Company Back To The Founders

BillSeitz — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 08:21:55 -0000

I think Google would rather have a SIP-based VoIP service. Skype is another walled garden.

Re: TiddlyWeb + IMAP

BillSeitz — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 19:07:23 -0000

Do you define a sister-wiki-space, so you can link wikiwords in emails to wiki pages?

Re: The Book Market Stares At Ubiquity

BillSeitz — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 08:15:07 -0000

The few stats Amazon *has* released make me think that their main *unit sales* have been nearly-free public-domain titles.

http://webseitz.fluxent.com/wiki/z2009-02-12-Ki...

Re: The Book Market Stares At Ubiquity

BillSeitz — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 08:10:21 -0000

If a core NetBook vendor implemented the fold-around design of the OLPC and bigger tablets, and had a phone-card built-in, would that get close?

Re: The Book Market Stares At Ubiquity

BillSeitz — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 07:52:24 -0000

Well, Amazon already lets authors self-publish through their ecosystem.

*And* they let those authors buy better visibility (ads).

So, if we follow the Shirky model of FilterThenPublish being an obsolete process, Amazon is getting pretty close to being a publisher already.