From the monthly archives:

July 2006

Why Kim’s smarter than me

July 31, 2006

Because she can sum up things while I just rant. In this case, summing up Dave Winer’s comments on BlogHer as "Mmm… girls are pretty and not like men and some of them blog, which is cool".

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Sorry – which century am I in?

July 31, 2006

Dave Winer goes to BlogHer, and comes back refreshed Scripting News Annex: I think it was Scoble who said he wished college had been like this. Amen. The ratio was great, probably 20-to-1 women to men. And these weren’t ordinary women. They were (as Ze likes to say) hard chargers… Some adjectives: They were good-natured, [...]

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In the gift economy, who gets the biggest gifts?

July 30, 2006

Digg poster “Mike” popped up in the comments to “Kevin Rose: Get a grip” with this, which I thought was worth replying to in a post as it encapsulates a lot of the issues that I have with the whole “free” Web 2.0. First of all, Mike’s post. “You dont get it do you? I [...]

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Mr Hammersley

July 30, 2006

My friend Mr Hammersley is currently off in Afghanistan, and is chronicling things via his Flickr stream. Given that Ben is a rather fantastic photographer, the results will undoubtedly be very, very good. Just get yourself back in one piece, please, Ben.

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A response to Stewart Butterfield on Web 2.0 hypocrisy

July 29, 2006

In my post in response to Kevin Rose’s proclamation about Digg, del.icio.us and Flickr being “true, free, democratic social platforms devoid of monetary motivations”, in which I talked about “the hypocrisy of the Web 2.0 generation”, Flickr’s Stewart Butterfield added the following comment: “Ian, surely this statement is as dumb as the one you’re criticizing? [...]

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If Web 2.0 has an asshole, Ben Metcalfe is it

July 27, 2006

The BBC’s Backstage project has taken a little flak of late for the slow way that it’s been releasing open feeds for BBC data, which – given that the project is barely a year old – is somewhat harsh. But one “enterprising” former employee, Ben Metcalfe, decided to take things into his own hands and [...]

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Dear Kevin Rose: Get a grip

July 27, 2006

Link: my blog: Calacanis. Ya see users like Digg, Del.icio.us, Reddit and Flickr because they are contributing to true, free, democratic social platforms devoid of monetary motivations. Hmm. What’s this I see on Digg.com? Why, it’s advertising! No monetary motivation there then. And on Flickr? Why, it’s paid-for services! No monetary motivation there, then. What [...]

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No, really guys, time to grow up

July 22, 2006

I love Boing Boing, but sometimes its attitude to elementary things like "fact checking" and "not ended up looking like an arse" leaves something to be desired. Take, for example, its story on "YouTube’s new policy says: we own your content". Publishing a clip from YouTube’s new terms and conditions which, it claimed, showed the [...]

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iPod vs MP3 phone – Apple losing

July 21, 2006

Tomi Ahonen has been taking a beating from the rabid Apple fans for his analysis of the portable music player market, despite the fact that his numbers and premise are completely sound (Tomi replies to the more reasonable comments at this post. Please don’t bother posting any comments here with out at least reading this). [...]

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iPod vs MP3 phone – Apple losing

July 21, 2006

Tomi Ahonen has been taking a beating from the rabid Apple fans for his analysis of the portable music player market, despite the fact that his numbers and premise are completely sound (Tomi replies to the more reasonable comments at this post. Please don’t bother posting any comments here with out at least reading this). [...]

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