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started 1/15/2007; 9:06:33 AM - last post 1/15/2007; 7:46:19 PM
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Doc Searls - Moday, January 15, 2007 
1/15/2007; 1:06:33 PM (reads: 6030, responses: 2)
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Hugh's news 
| | 6. Blogging is a great way to make things happen indirectly. I say that all the time, and will KEEP saying it till people finally get it [I¹m not holding my breath]. |
| | 7. Far too much time and energy is spent watching people make money directly off their blogs [e.g. via advertising revenues etc], as opposed to indirectly [e.g. becoming an authority on something, and using said authority to enhance your already-existing business]. I believe the latter is a far more pleasant, effective and likely way to do well. |
| | He's talking here about the Because Effect: making more money because of blogging than just with blogging. |
| | In fact, I'll bet that far more economic benefit is caused by blogging than by advertising money coming to bloggers. Or by salaries going to bloggers. Together. By many orders of magnitude. (I just wrote "organs of magnitude" by mistake. Talk about your Freudian slips...) |
| | That excerpt was 2 out of 41 notes. Check the last one. Pure tony pierce, that. |
My vote: no
| | James McGovern: Should I retire from blogging? One question among others: If hype is the plaque on the house of software, then what is the plaque of the blogosphere? |
| | Here's one for James: Worrying about blogging corrupting work and/or vice versa. I know this is unavoidable for many, but it shouldn't be. And even if it is, that's no reason to quit blogging. Or not to start. |
oPhone
| | With iPhone, Apple will raise the bar in cell phone functionality and frieldliness, just as it did in digital music player business with the iPod. |
| | The difference this time is that Apple isn't competing against the vacuum of competition it had in the music player business. It's up against Nokia, Motorola, Palm, Samsung, Kyocera, Sony-Ericsson, Linux, Symbian, Microsoft and the rest of the cell phone makers and platform providers, all of which are already extremely competitive. So the iPhone isn't a wake-up call for any of them; nor are they going to take the news lying down, because they're already wide awake, standing up and ready to fight. |
| | Which they will. That's where our first hope is. Not in Apple. By making a commitment to a closed iPhone, Apple has opened the door to some serious competition. |
| | Backlash by the customersphere, the journalsphere and the developersphere to news that the iPhone is closed is a huge gift to the iPhone's many new competitors. The market points to a clear and wide opening both for product differentiation and for giving customers what they want. |
| | It is time for an equipment maker to not only make an open phone that is open to all kinds of development, but to turn their carriers into "dumb pipes" for their own good. |
| | I would be far more likely, as a customer, to choose Cingular over Verizon if I knew Cingular supported open application development, "end-to-end" standards and the growth of intelligence and fresh new markets at the edges. |
| | Meaning, if I could run more apps and communicate more ways with more people over Cingular than Verizon, I'd go with Cingular. I'd even pay more to go there. Same goes for any carrier. Time to compete with openness, not just with better-furnished jail cells. |
| | By the way, I saw the Nokia N95 at CES, and it rocked. (Will it be open? Can it be? I don't know. You tell me.) |
The Times, They Aren't A-Changin'
| | I just came up to my office after making coffee downstairs, where I heard the news of more bad-guy hangings in Iraq, the latest featuring the decapitation of Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti, half-brother of Saddam Hussein. This was after both executioners and witnesses signed statements promising to behave in a "dignified manner". |
Nah, they're not small enough
| | When asked why Mrs. McCaw has consistently chosen legal action when she has felt wronged, rather than engaging in dialogue with readers or her news staff, (paper general counsel David Millstein) said, "A cease-and-desist letter is a form of dialogue." |
| | The chasm between Mrs. McCaw's world view and that of a great many others in Santa Barbara has caused distress that is rippling through the community. To visit Santa Barbara six months after the first News-Press crisis is to observe the fracturing of a community, a process that has been heartbreaking for many. |
| | A legal fund has been started by local lawyers to provide help for those in Mrs. McCaw¹s legal cross-hairs, and another loan fund has been started to help idled News-Press journalists through financial straits. Many of them remain unemployed. |
| | So, do ya think Wendy will sue the Times too? |
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Hi Doc,
Does the oPhone idea include freedom from contracts?
My cell phone experience is in Europe and Asia, where you slap your prepaid sim card into any phone you care to buy and then only pay when you use the phone. Topping up the sim card is a simple matter requiring five minutes at an atm or a phone kiosk. Want a new phone? Buy it, take your sim card out of the old phone, put it into your new phone, and you're off, with all your contacts as before.
Result? Everyone over the age of 12 has a cell phone.
The North American phone companies are worse than the record companies in this regard, clutching onto their controls and missing the opportunity to sell phones and services to millions of people who at the moment are not their customers. Is 'stupid' too harsh?
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Doc Searls - Re: oPhone
1/15/2007; 11:46:19 PM (reads: 665, responses: 0)
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Great points. Exactly, all around.
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