I was reading Wired magazine and saw this site called The Big Word Project. At first, I thought "Great! Another knockoff of the Million Dollar Website", but then I thought how cool the idea was.
The way it works is that users can redefine words with a link to their website at a dollar a letter. For example, "corn" may be bought for 4 dollars (see the math involved?) and would link to an interested party who makes corn products. Or not----maybe someone simply likes the word "corn" and wants to fork out the cash to make it his or her own. After all, who DOESN'T like corn???
After visiting the site, it got me thinking about words I too would like to redefine---hell, I know a LOT of words that need fixin'! Some that came to mind: president, religion, peace, suffering, hate, pope. But being a relatively simple (or superficial) person, I opted for something a little more "me" and a little less deep. So, here is what my 7 dollars bought:
Maybe soon it'll be as easy to redefine some other things in this world.
Monday, April 21, 2008
Wednesday, April 2, 2008
NJ Biz Article
EarWorm was featured in this week's NJ Biz newspaper. Here's the article.
I think it came out great, but I think I might have sounded a bit resistant to the idea, when in fact I am supportive of ALL content working. My point was that the carriers will always find a way to make money, even if they have to appease the masses with the IDEA of being open source, open development or whatever.
The fact is that the sort of gatekeeper mentality is what makes money (look at tv). They can find a way for it work, but they have to first find a balance between quality, access and price. You can provide viewers with "free" content, but if you are going to charge for the "good stuff" in the back room, it has to be priced accordingly. I don't think anyone can argue with that.
Don't get me wrong, I love YouTube....I'm just not sure how much longer viewers will tolerate watching our next door neighbor blow spaghetti out of his nose.
Kind of reminds me of when everyone had a "home page" on Angelfire or Geocities. AngelWHAT? GeoWHO?
Exactly.
I think it came out great, but I think I might have sounded a bit resistant to the idea, when in fact I am supportive of ALL content working. My point was that the carriers will always find a way to make money, even if they have to appease the masses with the IDEA of being open source, open development or whatever.
The fact is that the sort of gatekeeper mentality is what makes money (look at tv). They can find a way for it work, but they have to first find a balance between quality, access and price. You can provide viewers with "free" content, but if you are going to charge for the "good stuff" in the back room, it has to be priced accordingly. I don't think anyone can argue with that.
Don't get me wrong, I love YouTube....I'm just not sure how much longer viewers will tolerate watching our next door neighbor blow spaghetti out of his nose.
Kind of reminds me of when everyone had a "home page" on Angelfire or Geocities. AngelWHAT? GeoWHO?
Exactly.
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