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I realize that, but I figured I would stick it in the comments in case it helped anyone.

Alec Baldwin was the celebrity in question referenced in the article in case you're wondering.

Maybe this is an idealistic thought, but I think this trend of writing SEO laden garbage is what will finally make quality journalism behind paywalls work. People will eventually be driven to pay for decent content, unable to put up with irrelevant half baked articles churned out at breakneck pace.

This the internet, I'm sure pg knows that would only make the situation 100x worse.

Maybe that's the secret strategy.

If the movie industry wants people to stop pirating movies, they need to stop giving them excuses like this to do so.

Maybe a brief description of "your idea" would be helpful for the discussion?

This would be interesting to see in the context of average value per company and also compared to the value of companies from other tech incubators.

I'm going to say that this is a little tough to believe. At some point wouldn't this guy realize that typing these things into twitter isn't searching for them on google? After doing something 42 times and not getting the desired result, even an 81 year old would give up, right?

What about BitCoin? http://www.bitcoin.org/

I think one of the more compelling aspects of these virtual currencies is the decentralized nature.

At first glance I thought the title inferred that Tumblr hadn't increased in traffic in two years, which was very confusing. A better title would be something along the lines of "Tumblr now does as much traffic in one day as it used to do in one month."

I can't find the original article (I thought it was LA Times), but a major news publication put some serious resources into fact checking as much of this as possible. They came to the conclusion that Mr. Brainwash's background is all legit from as far as they can tell and they couldn't find any reason to doubt the authenticity of the film. Maybe someone knows the article I'm thinking of?

Well written and articulated argument. How is Arrington's investing different than a corporation owning a news station and that news station not disclosing that every time they cover something else owned by the corporation? I feel like this happens all the time without much uproar. I'm not saying what Mike is doing is right or wrong, I'm undecided, but I like Kara's take on it.

I was thinking about Aol's recent acquisitions and their transformation into a content company when it occurred to me that this isn't really a new thing for them. They have been at it for a long time. From what I can tell they started out as a different company all together and then acquired an ISP and eventually grew into what we all remember as dial-up era AOL.

It is always nice to have confirmation that these things get leaked by the very industry trying to vilify the leakers.

The Economist had an article about this last week: http://www.economist.com/blogs/dailychart/2011/04/internet_f...

Relevant updated from NY Times interview with Weird Al: http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/04/20/weird-al-yankov...

Explanation of what is going on here: http://alyankovic.wordpress.com/the-gaga-saga/

Parody is a protected form of free speech, why does he ask permission? If he is going to complain about someone not giving him permission, he should just go ahead and do it.

Update: after reading my own link, I have the answer to my own question.

Great post, incredibly helpful.

Especially number seven on the list. I get the feeling that any online job posting decreases your chances of getting noticed by a significant amount. I know in my company we only post stuff online because we feel obligated, we don't give those applicants nearly as much credence as we would someone who is referred by someone in our network.

Good point, I was trying to shorten the subtitle of the article into something less than 80 characters. The end result could have been more precise.

The following made me chuckle:

In techspeak, "pivot" is really a euphemism for "Our idea failed, but we have way too much venture and emotional capital invested in this thing to bail in a heap of embarrassment, so instead let's totally reinvent what we thought would be our life's work."

Any other recommendations? I'm in need of a few good books to add to the queue.

A development lab, not an incubator, but they don't plan on growing the team beyond ten people for at least a year. What do you all make of this?

My initial reaction is that they have assembled a team of people to work on crazy ideas to see if any of them catch on and then ideas that catch on will be spun off into separate companies. Sounds like a good match for Kevin's product ADD, but I feel like this could quickly spin into Digg again where people are spread too thin working on products with no future.

Are the .ve domains actually available? I tried to get one a while back and found out I couldn't register one.

This is like the RIAA asking LimeWire for $75 Trillion.

Owww, my eyes!

Here are some additional ones: http://techcrunch.com/2011/04/01/april-fools-2011-the-big-li...

The last question should be first. I clicked on the first one, not realizing the fourth one would be an option. Just a thought.

This is why traditional / mainstream media is fighting a battle to remain relevant.

Someone made a post yesterday about doing some statistical analysis of the tournament. Looks like someone has already done some serious work here.