But my Laptop from 2002 still works. And my 5 year old G5 is just fine, but Stevie really cut our guts out when he obsolesced us by making Snow Leopard Intel only. (I can't believe I spelled obsolesced correctly on the first try).
we (the IE Staff) were thinking of inviting everyone to a chat - bit of a free for all. Terry doesn't think it's a good idea becuase i swear too much, but i guess jason has broken the seal on swearing. LOL!
Corn is not going to solve our problems. It takes too much energy to make it into fuel. The best solution is a lot of solar across arizona http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=a-solar-grand-plan
The agribusiness corps pushed Corn ethanol and the Govt went with it. but have you noticed that Corn for food pretty much doubled because of it, and the ethanol produced for one tank (as the source I read) was equal to feed a person corn products for a year. NPR was following a test study where a scuientist was growing Hemp to produce ethanol (but it is illegal like pot) and concluded that hemp is more renwable and producies greater energy than what is needed to produce it.
i gotta run in a minute, but thanks for all the time and attention guys.... if you ever need me i'm @jason on twitter and jason at mahalo.com. checkout www.thisweekinstartups.com on Fridays! peace out my peeps!
Seems we're moving away from "flash" in new products and services to functionality. Human-powered search a good example. Is this my imagination, or a trend we all ought to think about?
hundhoup you can make money on mahalo by building How to articles http://www.mahalo.com/answers/mahalo-contests/who-were-the-top-how-to-page-earners-last-month
Android will have a killer phone and platform in 12-18 months. at that point i think i will be blackberry +anroid (as opposed to now, where i'm 65% blackberrry, 35% iphone usage... yes, i carry two)
that being said, i think the USA will be fine long-term if we can get the hell out of the middle east and invest in solar and nuclear technology.... you know, instead of funding terrorist
Jason, we didn't have time to get to it on the audio, but you blogged in August with a threat to dump all your Apple products based on some nasty, anti-competitive behavior from the vendor. Where are you with your thinking there now?
I think Gawker and Weblogs are 30-50% margin businesses if run properly. my guess is Gawker makes $10-12M a year with $3-5m in profites for Nick Denton. not a bad life!
mtechie... US newspapers have had a problem with keeping good content because their best writers were paid very well. (thanks to unions) Cost cuts meant lopping off older more experienced writers in favor of kids out of J-School or ones that do it for free.
In the news coverage model you're talking about, how would you do in depth investigations? How would an average blogger have the means and contacts to delve into corporate or government organizations? That's the only place I wonder if the new model will work.
great insight into traditional newspaper biz model. beating NYTimes, wow. spot on with local newspaper content - ours is terrible & loaded with AP articles we could see online easily.
...sure candies and nuts, Jason.. but does every contribution on the Web need to have a price tag to it? There's a whole Internet out there that does this for free
I have a question for the chat (finally, I have one!) How do they get their results? Only from User generated content? I did a search on myself and nothing showed, though I am on other search engines.
Well, certainly I am not on Jason's e-mail list, but have you ever been made fun of by diverse personalities such as Chuck Jones and James Ellroy? I can brag about that!
I used to work at an Aerospace foundry, and among my many duties, I got to pour aluminum wearing very trendy Asbestos silver coated suits. Asbestos, does a body's lungs good!
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