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Re: The Forgotten Man...and some notes

patwoodward — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 10:15:17 -0000

Thank Karateka - It's a good one. Glad you enjoyed it too.

Re: Making Something From Nothing

fredwilson — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 23:57:13 -0000

Great quote. Thanks for sharing it

Re: Making Something From Nothing

patwoodward — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 21:12:12 -0000

This post reminds me of a Zappa quote.

"Art is making something out of nothing and selling it."- Frank Zappa

Re: Tell Me What I Need To Know

patwoodward — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 23:54:21 -0000

Well, it all comes down to knowing your customers right? If I have a feel
for what most of them tend to like then as a band, you'll have a good idea
on how to approach this.

Clean, concise messages that have links for more info is a good place to
start.

Re: Seven Weeks

remabulous — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 10:53:59 -0000

I love it! That is really the most interesting part of what I do with clients- balancing their creative skills with practical applications or vice versa. Good stuff. I wish you lots of luck with it and I completely get the urge to understand the world better- especially the way it is operating at the moment!

Thanks much for your thoughts. Keep us posted on how it's going.

Caroline

Re: Seven Weeks

patwoodward — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 19:55:09 -0000

Hi Remabulous - I'm doing it to increase my knowledge of how the world works. Applying this knowledge to life and work and connecting past experiences to it, is really cool. Having experience in the creative and business worlds *and* connecting the two is a fun place to be.

Re: The Evolving Nature of Technology Adoption

Patrick Woodward — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 00:29:11 -0000

Good stuff Fraser. Is there a video of you talk somewhere?

I think finding users / adopters is a matter of knowing who exactly your customers are. If the adopters you are targeting are heavy web users, well these days that is a pretty big, undefined group. Four years ago it wasn't.

Marketing to everyone is difficult. Building stuff that services a particular audience is more efficient and fruitful.

Re: Fantasy, Not Real.

patwoodward — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 23:11:58 -0000

!! Looks great Dan. I like this version mo betta. Is the grey pane next to the red one a 'news' sort of pane?

Re: Fantasy, Not Real.

patwoodward — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 01:24:25 -0000

Yea man. Its interesting how your mindset of keeping the web clean by not polluting it can flow into the real world. Or is it the other way around? Probably.

I think this is important stuff to talk about. Why? Because some one has too!!!!!!!!!

Otherwise...well....blippo bold.

Re: Use Care in Connecting With an Audience

patwoodward — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 11:13:09 -0000

Yes, the stream of the doings and happenings of an artist's life can be good
for the audience. Watching and helping artists be creative with how they do
that is what I'm excited about.

Re: Fantasy, Not Real.

patwoodward — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 17:28:02 -0000

Ah, interesting you researched the airplaydirect company.

Re: The Future of Sound Engineering

patwoodward — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 11:37:18 -0000

Good points.

Re: BlueBlog:

patwoodward — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 18:42:57 -0000

Indeed - Good stuff Fraser.

Re: Has The Cafe Moved Online?

patwoodward — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 01:15:56 -0000

i don't know if the cafe is moving online or not but, what I do know is that exclusive nature of a cool cafe, city, neighborhood or any sort of hip hang is being broken down by the communication tools of the web.

Re: Zakaria Quote Of The Day

patwoodward — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 23:21:20 -0000

Along the lines of Michael's comment, I've thought that the simplicity of Japanese culture mixed with pieces of our Western culture can create interesting things.

However, I do think that there is a very thick layer of complexity underneath what the West views as Japanese minimalism.

Re: BMW's GINA

patwoodward — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 21:12:48 -0000

I haven't read that. Searching for it. Do you have a link?

Re: A post a day

patwoodward — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 21:08:01 -0000

This observation is another indication that the ability to *produce* seamless streams of information is more welcomed than the once a day nugget.

How do readers, listeners, and viewers cope with so many seamless streams?

Re: Doriot Quote Of The Day

patwoodward — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 11:47:31 -0000

Of all the quotes so far, this one jumped off the screen at me.

Re: OK HERE WE GO: An Empire of Their Own...and others

patwoodward — Tue, 13 May 2008 13:40:56 -0000

Same deal with Empire of Their Own. Last 1/4 could have been chopped a bit.

Re: Thinking About Context

Fraser — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 17:09:47 -0000

Get the music bloggers to post mp3's with the newest id3 version. Not only would we then be able to identify the unique song/artist, but it would provide a tonne of structured data for other companies to innovate with.

Solving that problem makes everything you described possible.

Re: Thinking About Context

patwoodward — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 16:33:31 -0000

You are right about the popularity of HypeM and when I say AdapitveBlue would have to "do it better" that might only be true if AdaptiveBlue smart links were music specific.

To answer your last question, given today's landscape of music on the web I would be most interested in how much a song has been blogged about. That gives me an idea of how many conversations are happening around this piece of music.

What would that take to make happen? Going to the source. I would see if some of your/our/AB's favorite music bloggers would like to use smartlinks to help build the stat engine. But, how in fact will that happen? Bloggers don't blog with last.fm and amazon links. They just blog with single mp3s. Is it possible to "watch" what songs are being talked about on say 10 music blogs and synch those songs up with their respective albums/artists. That artist data, collected from associated blogs, could then be served up in an artist smartlink pane.

What are your thoughts on this?

Re: Thinking About Context

steffanantonas — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 14:48:50 -0000

@Fraser + Pat - I've tried Googling for any services like HypeM for books and media other than music and can't come up with anything valuable. It seems like there's definitely an opportunity here.

@Pat - As far as the "vs HypeM" discussion - although a lot of people know about HypeM, I'd guess that the majority of people out there surfing the web don't. Maybe I'm wrong, I know it's popular, but as to HOW popular - dunno. I only say that because I just discovered it recently and I'm super active on the web. When you say that adaptiveblue would "have to do what they're doing better"...is that really true for most people do you think, or just for you? HypeM has such a comprehensive service, where you're getting links etc, it seems that you'd only go to the site if you're looking specifically FOR that kind of depth of information. Naturally, you'd hit HypeM before looking for smartlinks. That said, I think smartlinks are most useful when you're not engaging in that type of activity (i.e. digging and mining as an activity) - rather, they are most useful when you encounter an object that is unfamiliar for the very first time that sparks your curiosity.

There must be high level stats that you'd be interested in when you encounter an object for the very first time, no? What type of high level information would be useful to you when you encounter an album that you've never heard of and want to find out more about it? I think you've made some great points, I'd like to hear your thoughts on this.

Re: Thinking About Context

Fraser — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 11:25:54 -0000

For music? I think it depends on whether you're interacting with the object or are 1-degree away.

If you've already consumed the track, you're probably less interested in overall popularity. Rather, you probably want more information about the artist (bio? other songs? tour dates?) you may be interested in seeing what others have said about the song.

If you're 1-degree away you do probably want popularity. A summary or description may be of interest as well. Seeing who has interacted with it may also be valuable because it's an implicit form of recommendation.

When you're 1-degree away the contextual information that's helpful is the info that answers the "should I explore this object further?" question.

When you're interacting with the object the contextual actions that are beneficial are the ones that simplify traditional next-steps.

Re: Thinking About Context

patwoodward — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 03:14:55 -0000

That reasoning makes sense. So, where do we go from here if there is an id3 tag issue? + what kind of contextual information would be helpful besides album art or it's popularity across the web?

AllMusic's database of info would be great if it could be tapped. Last.fm's wiki information on artists is also really well done and helpful too. Could that be utilized somehow in a contextual case?

Re: Thinking About Context

patwoodward — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 03:08:27 -0000

@Fraser - out of context yes. But very accurate and well done. In my mind you'd have to do what they're doing better, but just bring it into context.

@Steffan - I don't know where I would look for that information.