Ontario Emperor

Which service? - Mitch

Updates to a Twitter wiki page. - Ontario Emperor

"Unlike Twitter's "fail whale" graphic, which the company purchased outright after it appeared on iStockphoto, Oxley's bird design remains on the site where it can be licensed under the same terms Twitter received. Nothing is stopping people from making sites that ape, mock or build upon Twitter using its own official graphic." - Ontario Emperor

"So if the story is fake, why in the world would the national media run with something like this? That’s a really good question. If there’s one good thing that can come from this story, it’s the chance to look further into a burning question that’s been boiling up inside of me for some time: Why do we love to hate Jose Mourinho?" - Ontario Emperor

The third of three 3/13 Empoprise-MU posts on the music industry, this one looks at an interview by Rick Carnes of the Songwriters Guild of America. - Ontario Emperor

Adding 2nd comment to expose 1st. Argh. - Ontario Emperor

The second of three 3/13 Empoprise-MU posts on the music industry, this one touches on the beginnings of the Featured Artists' Coalition. - Ontario Emperor

Comments not showing up. Will the addition of a second comment correct this? - Ontario Emperor

The first of three 3/13 Empoprise-MU posts on the music industry, this one touches on the Featured Artists' Coalition. - Ontario Emperor

Monday 3/9 post from Empoprise-MU which is the predecessor to the Friday 3/13 three part series on the Featured Artists' Collective and related topics. This post refers to some TechCrunch pieces, as well as Warner's Edgar Bronfman and his position on 360 rights. - Ontario Emperor

H/T Red Stick Rant. http://redstickrant.blogspot.com/2009... I will comment further at Clifford's post. - Ontario Emperor

I should mention that this is an interview of Friedman by Phil Donahue. - Ontario Emperor

H/T Franklin Avenue. "You'd expect the big-box chains to have staying power; but alas, as we've seen recently, that's just not the case. Inspired by this week's final closure of Circuit City, I found a few more old stores that might be familiar to Angelenos. First up, above: GEMCO. And sadly, below, here's GEMCO as it announces its own going out of business liquidation." - Ontario Emperor

"Previously, most folks used tinyurl.com to make their URLs short and sweet... but lately, some Twits have determined that even tiny URLs waste precious character space, and have been demanding even tinier URLs." - Ontario Emperor

That is, &linkid would map to something like http://url.twitter.com/linkid - which in turn would redirect to the true url. - Meryn Stol

"The US wants the G20 countries to commit to spending 2% of their GDP on stimulus packages meant to boost demand and kick-start the economy worldwide. France's Finance Minister is arguing that no more stimulus is necessary, and in any case, he says that the US was the last country to pass a stimulus package, so it's facing a bigger crisis than the rest of the world, so.... well, it's not totally clear what the French Finance Minister is arguing." - Ontario Emperor

Pretty sure government subsidies have something to do with that, Mark. EDIT: Johnny, that depends on the state of the US economy at the point of the strike. We're getting a bit low on massive trade power in comparison to other parts of the world. - FFing Enigma

"Jon Stewart asks questions that no one else asked. The business media was to the economic crisis as the DC media was to the Iraq War and other Bush lies. He has a line to Cramer "you all know what's going on." That line captures the essence of much of the corporate media." - Ontario Emperor

"To both the World Wide Web, age 20 years this day and Linux v1.0, age 15 years this day." - Ontario Emperor

Personally, the best advice I ever heard on this topic came from a layman who once said, "Good sermons don't say 'You sinners,' but 'We bums.'" - Ontario Emperor

"As you can see in the clip, Fallon sat on the dais with Diggnation technogeeks Kevin Rose and Alex Albrecht when out of the blue, the former Saturday Night Live actor decided to pick Brinkman and run a “Twitter experiment” on the air. The goal: Follow Brinkman." And he didn't have to pay $120k. - Ontario Emperor

Jon Swift is on a roll. "Why can't we unequivocally state there should be different standards for liberals and conservatives? One of the problems with liberalism is that they believe everyone is the same and that all morality is relative. But if there is anything that conservatives reject it is the idea of moral equivalency. When America tortures a terrorist suspect that is not the same as when a terrorist tortures someone. Killing civilians in a war or accidentally executing the innocent is not the same as abortion." - Ontario Emperor

"Jason, I was hoping that you'd weigh in on this conversation, because your offer puts a possible monetary value on Twitter's "suggested users" feature. The question arises - if you don't allocate the spaces by buying them, is there a "fair" way to allocate them - especially when Twitter's base is converting from a tech-oriented community to a much more broader-based community? Is Jason "interesting"? Is Shaq "interesting"? From the perspective of the company, Twitter needs to choose suggested users that most benefit the company, either via revenue (as Jason proposes) or by choosing suggested users that will encourage people to stay on the service and not drop it (e.g. Ashton). The one thing that scares me about thinking of Twitter as a utility is that such a mindset could eventually lead to government intervention and regulation of the service, which would not be desirable." - Ontario Emperor