jobenjo's comments

Good question. Can you copyright a haiku?

If you tweeted a haiku and if that haiku later appeared in a book of poetry without your attribution, would that be okay?

But Twitter does give you copyright to your tweets, so repurposing a tweet and removing attribution seems wrong.

Umm... I feel like there's a huge flaw in this. He's looking at the different _channels_ in this image, but couldn't that mean there's just less blue data in that particular image?

I believe that humans may be worse at seeing blue, but this test seems bogus. By looking at the channels, he's actually cutting out different subsections of data, so it's apples to oranges, right? What if there's just much less blue in this particular photo?

Or am I mistaken?

Yeah, after reading his explanation, I wished I'd chimed in and said I'm a non-Canonical coder who's been really happy with Bazaar.

You should check out http://www.fluther.com.

We built it to exactly fit that niche: smart people, good incentives, and free.

What, no love for me, just because I'm not a YC company? I was still in the FT article.

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2008/04/23/business/smal... or http://www.fluther.com/404

Okay, now I'm embarrassed.

+1. Also my favorite. Though at a close second is Deborah Gordon's talk on ants. It's amazing:

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/deborah_gordon_digs_ants....

The lameness of this article is that he's making all of his conclusions on 3 big companies. That's an enormous generalization.

He's missing the whole lean, mean segment by looking only at the top.

Try comparing the sheer number of companies during 2.0 and 1.0, and you'll start to see the difference.

I've been using Dvorak/Kinesis for about 4 years, and I agree mostly with what's said. After a while, I found I could still use QWERTY, at least at a decent enough level that I could just grab someone's computer and not bother remapping (though sometimes I do that too).

The funny thing is every time someone grabs my laptop, they are totally freaked out.

We launched a similar plugin with Webmynd for Fluther and so far our users have been very receptive.

I have to say it's a brilliant way for them to market their service, and everybody wins.

YUI has been doing the same thing (hosting their JS professionally), and it does really make sense.

We've been doing this for years at fluther.com and it's worked out great. We have a switch for using a local copy when we're offline (on an airplane), but in general it adds speed and saves bandwidth.

This was always a nice benefit of YUI, and I'm glad to see there's an option with JQuery, too. (I'm planning to switch at some point--we went with YUI in the first place because it had the only stable autocomplete plugin but that's long since changed.)

I'm the co-Founder and CEO of Fluther; please don't spam our site. We have a dedicated group of volunteer moderators that remove spam, so it will be a waste of your time.

My honest advice on building a real community: it takes a lot of work, love, and time to incubate. There is no shortcut. Get your friends using it. Add good users one at a time. Make sure it works with for small group, and just keep building.

We're very proud to see Fluther.com in such excellent company.

I was going to do Tonik ended up being advised by a professional not to. The important thing with all these cheap plans (I have one now around a $100/month) is to make sure they don't just cover generic. If you get really sick and need special drugs--which don't have generics--you're out of luck.

If you live in CA, I'd recommend talking to someone at allhealthplans.com. It's free (the insurer pays them), and they have great information about all the competing companies--no bs, excellent help. I've sent lots of people their way.

Hmmm, this is interesting feedback. One reason we put the ask in the forefront is to help make it obvious what the site's about, plus to encourage new questions (which is also the best way to get into the site).

But I see what you're saying about flow. I'll have to digest this one. Thanks.

Yeah, that's useful to hear. Right now, certainly our user base is much smaller than the big guys, but that smallness also gives it a real sense of community--plus lots of our users are quite smart. This is a challenge, though.

As far as anonymous questions/answers, we've thought about it a lot and we think it's a necessary tool in maintaining the community and ensuring people take it seriously. But it wasn't an easy call.

Thanks for the feedback.

This is an interesting idea... I worry that the outgoing revenue would not be enough to offset the adword costs, but it's something to consider.

Thanks for the thoughts. Targeting a niche is an interesting idea. We'll also look more into the fonts.

It's similar to Yahoo Answers or Ask Metafilter, with some new twists like real-time discussion, questions filtered for you, and IM integration.

Now that we finally completed it we're climbing out from our cave and wondering if the site can fly, and how we help attract people to it.

Any comments or advice?

Link: http://www.fluther.com

It's a challenging process.... I was consumed by it for months--every word I saw was a potential name. Finally one of my inspirations paid off and I found an open domain I liked (fluther.com).

My only advice is to open your mind to lots of ideas, and try and find a name which will match your branding.

A great tool (I wish I knew about when I was starting): http://ajaxwhois.com