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Re: teendrama :: hello my name is dennis.

morland — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 05:51:58 -0000

When I lived on 10th/B I used to always cut over to walk by that place at night. It's like that guy keeps the corner turret library illuminated just to show off. I would too.

Re: The Gong Show ~ by Andrew Parker

morland — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 08:36:07 -0000

A quick behavioral hack when the software won't delay for you is to fill out the message in reverse - body, then subject, then recipient(s). It's a pain for reply-all if the recipient list is too large but in a lot of other situations guarantees you won't send by accident.

Re: Sheets on tumblr

morland — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 13:48:35 -0000

Awesome.

Re: Marginal Revolution: Markets in everything, hedonic pricing edition parts I and II

morland — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 22:35:51 -0000

Kudos Al, the econ nerd in me rejoices.

Re: The Gong Show ~ by Andrew Parker

morland — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 14:25:22 -0000

They played this last night in London in a still-active church - fantastic. Some good pics on Flickr: http://flickr.com/search/?s=rec&ss=2&ct=6&w=all...

The live percussion, which I didn't expect, adds a lot.

Re: seedcamp: The fitness test

morland — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 05:48:07 -0000

That's an interesting question. We don't have the resources unfortunately to provide translation ourselves, but we're going to try to allow (and encourage) the aggregation of as much data from the event as possible. If anyone wants to translate this voluntarily we'd be pleased as punch.

Re: seedcamp: Making our short list and checking it twice

morland — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 05:18:06 -0000

Hi Hessia-

I just emailed you yesterday morning, after your first comment. Did you not get it? If not, can you send an alternate email address to info@seedcamp.com?

Thanks,
M

Re: seedcamp: Making our short list and checking it twice

morland — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 05:27:14 -0000

Sorry about that Hessia - we'll look into it immediately.

Re: seedcamp: 2008 application zeitgeist

morland — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 10:32:53 -0000

Hi Anna-

No need to cut us 20%, thanks though ;)

Be sure to let us know how much interest you get.

-m

Re: seedcamp: 2008 application zeitgeist

morland — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 05:06:22 -0000

Agreed - I was also surprised that some up-and-coming languages were absent (Erlang, Haskell, OCaml)... and no Git either.

Re: seedcamp: Quick-pitch round-table

morland — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 12:18:36 -0000

Hi Francesco - the contest closed last week. Did you also apply to Seedcamp?

Re: seedcamp: Video pitch competition results

morland — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 11:11:06 -0000

http://www.seesmic.com/video/ll51PPrkdc

Re: seedcamp: Seedcamp 2008 applications are now closed

morland — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 10:59:06 -0000

Yes, it's a cumulative total - the day-by-day would just be the deltas in the steps up each time.

We're analyzing the applications stats and will post something when we have it ironed out.

Re: seedcamp: Voting now open for our video pitch competition

morland — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 06:21:01 -0000

No, it's not a dumb question at all.

There's a bit of a "prisoner's dilemma" problem here where asking people to abide by a shared code of conduct is doomed to fail if:

1) entrants have much to gain by deviating from that code
2) entrants know their deviation is not observable to other entrants, and even possibly administrators
3) entrants therefore expect others to deviate, and must then deviate themselves to avoid a competitive disadvantage

As the number of persons involved increases there's a lower chance that everyone will abide by that code out of what we might call, for lack of a better term, sheer altruism. My own gut speculation, which is completely empirically unverified, is that above 10 participants the chances of one deviating are already asymptotically approaching 1. I'd be positively shocked if, with a group of 19, not one entrant self-promoted in the manner you're describing. There's probably a greater likelihood that I'd be voted Sexiest Man Alive (still keeping the dream alive, though). And glancing at some Twitter feeds, it looks like it's already happening (the promotion, that is, not my award).

So all that's a way of saying that we thought about asking people to rely on nothing but the natural course of visitor traffic to the voting page, but realized there was no way to enforce that request. It's a basic human engineering problem.

That said, if you're applying to the main Seedcamp event this is a chance to throw in an additional sweetener (we're keeping track - if you fill out a main Seedcamp application we'll append your video pitch to it). I'm not saying we'll pluck our favorite pitch from this competition, but it can really only help your overall odds.

-m

Re: seedcamp: Voting now open for our video pitch competition

morland — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 04:30:49 -0000

Ok - fixed now.

Re: seedcamp: Voting now open for our video pitch competition

morland — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 19:05:11 -0000

Not sure what was going on - looks to be up now.

Re: seedcamp: Voting now open for our video pitch competition

morland — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 13:44:12 -0000

Whoops, we'll have that changed by the morning if that's ok - a key resource is out for the evening. Sorry about that.

Re: seedcamp: Quick-pitch round-table

morland — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 07:08:49 -0000

Hey guys - had to upload it to my account to get the poll embedding working. I'll pull it when the voting is finished.

http://seesmic.com/video/91EusYA4vD

Re: seedcamp: Quick-pitch round-table

morland — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 06:36:56 -0000

Looks like you succeeded in both respects, but as you said I don't think it's a "pitch" per se ;)

Re: Sheets on tumblr

morland — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 09:37:14 -0000

I know it's twisted but I totally get a kick out of this.

Re: seedcamp: Quick-pitch round-table

morland — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 09:16:07 -0000

We'd really prefer you use Seesmic for two reasons:

1) it's integrated with the voting system we rigged up for tomorrow
2) we're not looking for anything formal - we're trying to replicate the impromptu environment in which founders often find themselves, so sticking with a site that encourages a quick conversation (albeit with the camera) is more realistic than a slick presentation

That said, if you really can't use Seesmic for some reason we can try and work with what you do use.

-m

Re: seedcamp: Quick-pitch round-table

morland — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 06:32:51 -0000

Hi guys-

Can you see my reply to Marty's comment below?

Thanks,
-m

Re: seedcamp: Quick-pitch round-table

morland — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 06:16:54 -0000

Hey Martin-

Yeah, I'm inclined to agree - it's not quite in the spirit of rule #2 (e.g. hard to replicate what they've done in an elevator).

Norbert and David - this video is great, but as Martin noted one of our goals with this is to help you practice live, in-person pitches. Not to say you couldn't show your video before getting up and speaking about Comparor, but the speaking is still critical. Would you consider a new video more along the lines we're looking for?

Thanks,
-m

Re: seedcamp: Announcing our 2008 selection panel

morland — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 17:03:42 -0000

I am truly out-nerded, sir.

Re: seedcamp: Some quick answers to your questions

morland — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 08:37:11 -0000

Just testing out Disqus... ignore.