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Re: louisgray.com: Dell's TinyURL Finds a Porn Star Guru: Fun With Redirects

Marcin_Grodzicki — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 01:54:50 -0000

I wonder whether, on the legal side, a brand/TM owner could claim his URL back. As far as I know, in Poland, you can't just squat a domain with someone else's brand name unless you put something related in there (business with same/similar name preferred, only for unregistered TM's though).

Re: louisgray.com: To Blog, or Not to Blog - That is the Question

Marcin_Grodzicki — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 05:34:02 -0000

I got into blogging because I wanted to promote a startup I am building. It proved to be a lot more addictive than I thought it could be. Unfortunately for me the addiction means consuming a lot more content than I (probably) need. But my point lies elsewhere: blogging matures, no doubt about it. The advertising money is here, side ventures emerge (conferences etc.), PR folks hitting you, disclosures of conflicts of interest - who heard about those in the early days? As blogging matures, formerly great blogs now turned blog networks work like regular magazines: posting frequently, with not much care for content and hardly any comment conversation. PageView binds them all. This is why new blogs emerge. This is why people read Louis, and why they always look for independent interesting people (Louis, if your head is getting to big, I have a 4kg frying pan ready to meet it).

It's sad to admit, but money kind of ruins it all - whenever blogger starts treating blogging like a job to live on, his quality goes down. Or maybe it's just a fact that doing content for the masses is a bit different than doing it just for the hell of it. This is why I write (and comment by the way) only if something moves me, or I really want to share a thought with you guys. If I just want to get traffic for my startup, I have Adwords ;)

Re: louisgray.com: Late-Night Seesmic Desperation Yields Results

Marcin_Grodzicki — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 16:13:49 -0000

Amazing :) If you know a bit about body language you can tell the difference between her emotional state on first and second video. That means Cindy you got a real solution to the 'problem' by simply posting it on Seesmic (which I considered complete rubbish until now - no offense Loic, I just changed my mind). The really interesting part is in the comments though - it seems like youngsters are adopting this technology a lot better than 'normal'=adult geeks. Which may be an important factor to consider for you Loic - maybe your target group is 'a little younger' than you expected :)

Re: louisgray.com: As I Get Older, Some Online "Friending" Gets Creepier

Marcin_Grodzicki — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 04:27:11 -0000

You are talking to Corvida, so I wouldn't say age is the problem. Having not relevant connections is. In the past in order to keep up any relation you had to make some effort. Even maintaining e-mail relationships required sitting down and hitting the keys for a while. With twitter, you hit 'subscribe' and it's all you have to do. That's why people value relationships less these days. And let's face it - if this 14yo was a little genius writing unique code you wouldn't have second thoughts.

Re: louisgray.com: July's Jewels: Five Obscure Blogs that Sparkle

Marcin_Grodzicki — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 11:12:36 -0000

Louis, do it a bit more often, and also share some blogs from outside of web world - you do have a taste for this.

Re: louisgray.com: State of the Blog: June 2008 Recap

Marcin_Grodzicki — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 05:09:51 -0000

Have you noticed that friendfeed followers grow twice as fast as twitter? (20% vs 10%).