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Re: TiddlyWeb Dev/Deploy Workshop

FND — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 04:39:58 -0000

There's this:
http://tiddlyweb.peermore.com/wiki/recipes/edit...
Not necessarily complete or up to date though...

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

ehwizard — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 09:58:06 -0000

Yes - going over the public net would be an issue. I think the best use case is in the same data center as the hosting service. Eventually, MongoHQ should have servers at the big hosting companies, so you just use the servers that are local to you.

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!

albert — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 11:00:02 -0000

That's one of the great mysteries of the Web. What does Craigslist add to the web? We have not yet figured out how to truly distribute some of these things but I don't think we know what aspects of centralization are critical.

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

fredericguarino — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 10:51:43 -0000

first off, thanks for visiting the blog !

Not sure I understand your question though. Your comments prompts me to create a new category and to summarize my position on healthcare reform to make it clearer.

In a nutshell: I support universal health coverage and I've been vocal about this position. My biggest peeve of the moment is that everyone involved, including the President, get themselves bogged down too early in details.

Universal health coverage is a societal choice that must be made in conscience. I support it as a matter of morals and economics.

I wish President Obama would explain it in simple terms: young people especially MUST participate in the health coverage by contributing $$ now as part of an intergenerational social contract. Bluntly, pay $$ now when you're not sick for those who are sick and in turn other will pay for your needs later.

This basic "pay it forward" rule is not insurance but a social contract to be entered into.

Back to your question, do I take an insurer's objections seriously ie do I trust them to do the right thing ? Of course not ! I've been a heavier than most user of healthcare: I have atypical cystic fibrosis and my wife and I must go through IVF to conceive. I've been through 2 surgeries in the past few months and so has my wife. She's constantly
on the phone repairing the insurance's billing mistakes.

One key change that must come as part of the total overhaul of the health ecosystem is patient data. Go to http://www.healthdatarights.org/ and endorse the declaration of data rights if you agree with it.

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.

fredwilson — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 18:07:35 -0000

Good question

But many online video ad units are in the 15 and 30 second format

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

fredwilson — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 07:00:04 -0000

i like the way he's leaning back. that's my favorite posture.

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

cdent — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 07:42:18 -0000

I'll grant you that perhaps there are vast swaths of people who don't like to reflect, but whether people like to do it or not, they do think.

A little more reflection would probably do us all some good. I guess that's the summary here.

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)

dave — Fri, 29 May 2009 11:15:32 -0000

FriendFeed. It's a floor wax and a dessert topping and it'll do your taxes
too. :-)

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

bradburnham — Mon, 18 May 2009 19:22:25 -0000

That's true Bill. Teri Flemal who runs a business providing support and infrastructure to parents in New York City who home school their children did provide that perspective. If you go to the transcript and search for Teri you will see some important insights that just did not make it into the drastically edited summary.

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

fredwilson — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 20:09:19 -0000

Awesome

Thanks for the link bill