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Yeah, I'd be down for coffee or beer anytime this week (Kreuzberg/Neukoelln, preferrably!).

I suppose equipping spam filters with crawlers that actually go out and classify the pages linked in an email, rather than just treating URLs (or parts of them) as regular words, would remedy this.

This has been proposed for a while (for example in http://www.paulgraham.com/spam.html). I'm actually surprised it isn't common yet, especially as more and more email tends to be hosted and processed by companies like Google.

It's hard to say. Maybe it's a mix. Here's a counterexample: http://similar-images.googlelabs.com/images?q=apple&qtyp...

A while ago, I heard a talk by the CEO of Wreck A Movie (http://www.wreckamovie.com/). They made a sci-fi movie in an open-source manner: People from anywhere contributed 3D models of spaceships and other graphical assets.

If you could tag your contributions with CC-Attribution licenses and have your name appear in the credits, that might be enough incentive for a lot of people to bring down production prices even more.

No, we have a fixed portion that goes to the fans, and the artist decides how much that is. Also, early buyers get bigger cuts, so it pays not to wait if you like a song.

This is Hannes from Popcuts. What Zed describes ("Competitors Don’t Get It") actually did exist for a while. Snocap used to offer a service where you uploaded music and could sell it through an embeddable ministore. AmieStreet has something similar. And, of course, so do we.

But I think the author oversimplifying a bit. Sure it's technically easy to sell music online. The stuff that's hard to come by is people's attention.

And while it's true that the Internet lowers distribution barriers, it has also decreased the perceived value of music recordings. Because access has gotten so much easier, people tend to think of music less as something you can own, but rather of something you have access to, be it through MP3s on your hard drive or streaming. We at Popcuts set out to address that. Because we think there's a deeper sense of ownership possible than simply having access to a sound file. And we do think music should have a price tag.

Our site is based on the idea that buyers of a song get a share of the revenue that song makes in the future. So when you buy a song on Popcuts, it's in your interest that that song does well. You might tell your friends about it, but you probably won't seed the file to a BitTorrent site. In addition, we try to reward the behavior that a lot of music fans already show: They know of a hot new band before everyone else, and they want to show it off. </selfpromotion>

A design professor of mine highly recommended these. They seem like a nice reminder (that you can bring into a meeting) of all the ethnographic methods available.

BoingBoing just linked to a scanned version, although I'm pretty sure it's not authorized in any way. http://www.boingboing.net/2009/02/09/ideos-deck-of-method.ht...

Reminds me of German satire magazine Titanic, which would enter your name in a raffle for cash if you sent them proof of cancelling a magazine subscription.

Thanks for hosting, this was a ton of fun!

I'll try to make it!

Now they just need to raise the temperature on their shuttles. It's so freezing cold, I got sick after the second day of work last summer.

Follow brainstorming techniques. Write everything down, no matter how bad. Write down fragments that characterize your idea. Explore metaphors: If your site is about finance, maybe think about up/down movement, growth, even gambling and excitement. Visualize these themes and keep writing things down.

I found that you don't want your name to be too descriptive (e.g. I find the name "FriendFeed" way too descriptive and boring), but on the other hand it shouldn't be yet another five-letter, random-string, 2.0 name.

Twitter is nice because it plays very loosely with disseminating information to whoever's listening out there. It's better than smsfeedr.

Google is nice because they've identified a large number as something that loosely characterizes what they do.

The Internet is actually a pretty good emulation of Pi/MonkeysWithTypewriters/LibraryOfBabel. Turns out, somebody else already talked about this: http://www.physicsforums.com/archive/index.php/t-82962.html