tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-69678622012-01-10T02:37:38.467-08:00To read me is to know me.Jim Burschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06161982479384873439noreply@blogger.comBlogger571100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6967862.post-1099689287066008922004-11-05T13:13:00.000-08:002004-11-05T13:18:50.770-08:00

Go to jimbursch.com for my latest and greatest. Or http://jimbursch.typepad.com/

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Don't tell me, "You get what you pay for," because if you do, I'm stomping right over to Typepad and I'm throwing down my credit card for a full year. No matter what your business model is (God only knows), you need satisfied customers for it to work. By the way, you're working just fine right now. It seems early afternoon is yack time over there.

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It seems to be certain times of day when Blogger.com yacks. If I only knew when that was -- then I could schedule my brilliance accordingly. I'm looking longingly at the green grass on Typepad's side of the fence. But is it an illusion? Is it worth the time and effort to make change? What if this is just a bad week for the server administrators at Blogger.com/Google?

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My response to this blog "On Totally Losing Perspective": "Right on." Campaign rhetoric is necessarily exaggerated to make a point and contrast with the other guy. You're not supposed to believe it; you're just supposed to get the point, then discard the rhetoric. Campaigns are trying to get your vote. Period. They are not trying to tell the "truth." It would be nice if they did, but they

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I'm this close to switching to Typepad. Seems like every other time I go to post to my blog, the Blogger.com servers are yacking. C'mon folks, with all those Google bucks you should be able to deliver a whoop-ass service.

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This got a chuckle out of me: "Kerry vs. Bush was a contest between two rich guys, one of whom has always done a great job of faking an aw-shucks background. The other came off as a human yacht."From Doc Searls.

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The network is always stronger than a node Art of blogging Network effects

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As a Kerry voter, I think it's time to unite with all Americans in making our government the best that it can be. Collectively we create our democratic institutions, including the presidency, regardless who holds the office. Our honest efforts make a difference, even when things don't turn out as we would have liked them.

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The latest edition of the Carnival of the Capitalists found here.

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Ready for the 5th Estate? Nice piece on what's up with blogging.

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Here's a gem on a restaurant in London that doesn't charge for meals -- strictly tipping: The proverbial free lunch?

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Here's a plain English explanation of RSS: What is RSS? Now that I'm an addict, I may as well become a pusher. Everone should use an RSS reader. I use Bloglines.

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Here's a well expressed libertarian take on environmentalism: Libertarianism, the Environment, and Kyoto: Part 1 I can probably be best described as a Libercrat (Libertarian Democrat). A good friend of mine is a Republitarian (Republican Libertarian), which is probably more common. I think what determines which shade of Libertarian you are depends on which wacko end of the political spectrum

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Russell Beattie posts "On Cancelling My Google Interview" We got hooked on Google for two reasons: 1. They gave us good search results 2. They gave us clean search results Two reasons we will get unhooked from Google: 1. Others are figuring out how to give good (better?) search results. 2. Google must muddy search results with ads for revenue. Consumers DEMAND clean media.

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This is too cool. Must learn more. Crash Ballet One link leads to another, check this out.

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I have a habit of doing things just short of complete completion. I say "complete completion" because as far as I'm concerned, when I'm done, it's complete. Others (such as my wife) may disagree. For example, when unloading the dishwasher and putting away clean dishes, I always leave one dish on the counter, just above where it's supposed to go. My wife says I didn't finish the job. Of course

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"You have to remember that as an employee, you don't have total free speech anymore," says Jeffrey Matsuura, director of the law and technology programme at the University of Dayton. This from "Blogger grounded by her airline" at BBC online. Here's another along the same line: "Death of a Voice - 4th Floor Quits Watching City Hall ." I'm thinking it might be useful to start collecting stories

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I orgininally started this blog to chronicle the trials and tribulations of taking an idea and trying to turn in into a business (Quinset). As you can see below, I've since gotten way off track. So I've created a new blog for the Quinset stuff, and this blog will continue as my personal, mixed up blog. The new blog is called the Quinset Advisory Board.

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You know it's time to move on when you feel righteous indignation at being interrupted while writing your personal blog ... at work.

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Here's another installment from the 'hood. Rogan is getting downright poetical with his description of the sounds of South Central. Thanks to LAVoice.org for bringing this to us.

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Our candidates as we'd like to see them. Aside from that, this is a very ... inventive ... blog.

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Here's a comment I made on a very important blog from John Battelle, "Meeker on Digital World: Blogs, Yahoo Are Winners". The subject is an analyst's assessment of the business of blogging. Key quote: "...Despite all the noise and random content in blogs, many bloggers have become sources for breaking news, fresh ideas, and expert commentary...." Here's the text of my comment: This is

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I like the comment I made on Jeremy Wright's blog The 1 Year Letter It's one of those sensitive topics that you don't always want your current employer to see.

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Here's another crazy rational idea from Marginal Revolution: That social factors have a direct effect on biological processes. The flip side is that we can have a direct effect on biological processes by manipulating social factors. Doctor, you need to know that what's in the patient's head is also in the body, and vice versa.

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Here's something that's WAY over my head, but will someday explain psychic phenomena to me. I mention it mainly for the benefit of my wife. There's some crazy rational stuff at Marginal Revolution.

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Here's the latest installment from our intrepid cracker in South Central L.A. Thanks to LAVoice.org for bringing this to us. In this edition, our hero struggles to reconcile urban and rural gun values.

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Harper's Magazine has a great article that covers the legal/political fight over partial birth abortion. It's the first article on the subject I've read that actually sheds light on the debate without blinding me with polemics from both sides. Unfortunately, I can't find a useful link to the article online (old media can be very aggravating). I came away from the article with the above

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I'm proud to say that my Slacker Theory of Labor Productivity has made it into the latest Carnival of the Capitalists.

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This is just a place holder right now, but I want to explore my response to Paul Allen's Attention Entrepreneurs: Search for Angels, not VCs!. I'm digging Paul's blog - there a lot of good stuff there.

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"The NanoWater congress, which kicked off the Aquatech 2004 water-technology trade show, outlined how nanotechnology can create drinking water from contaminated water, salt water and all forms of waste water, including bong water..." I love the word "bong." It's one of those words that cause an adolescent snicker whenever I see it, like "titular" or "flatulence" or "expurgate." It reminds me of

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What does it mean when that silly spinning exclamation mark appears to just be looping when it's supposed to be posting my latest brilliantly crafted blog? Am I going to have to rewrite my blog if it fails to post? Will it spin forever? How long should I wait? If I post this blog, written in a different window, will it cause problems for the post trying to publish in the other window? It's

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Here's a group of folks I'd like to hear more from: the asexual. If, indeed, they are as prevalent in the population as gays, I think they would have a lot to contribute to the sexual milieu, even though by definition, they don't. CNN covered a study on asexuality, and there's a support Web site: "The Asexual Visibility and Education Network is devoted to creating dialogue among and about the

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This is a great idea: craft a business plan in the form of press releases. "... make a list of all the press release headlines they hope to issue during the next two years." As a former newspaper headline writer, that's something I can do, and have fun doing it. Imagine doing it in the form of tabloid headlines: "Elvis Underwrites Quinset First Round Funding" or "500 lb. Baby Joins Quinset

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In the last ten years or so, we have seen huge strides in labor productivity, thanks in large measure to the deployment and networking of technology. I believe that reported productivity still vastly understates the true rise productivity, evidenced by the "slacker" phenomenon. Measures of productivity account for productivity gains accrued to employers, but do not take into account

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Here's a little something that reveals something 'bout me: Dispatch from the Westside

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People who have been closely following the development of Quinset (my imaginary friends) will notice a few little changes on the site. I've been sick lately of looking at code in a text editor, so I've been playing with Photoshop. Made a cool-looking "Q" logo. It would have been cooler, but the very cool version looked too much like the Salon logo -- it looked better than the Salon logo, but

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Here's a variation on Quinset that I'm developing that drops all pretense about promoting art:

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Among the chorus of voices in my head, there's one small voice way in the back. Let's call her Judith. Judith is an artsy, North Beach type who is moody and always wears dark clothing in contrast to her colorless complexion. She's the one who says art is not a sport, and it's a vile perversion to pit artists against each other in competition. I counter with the argument that competition can be

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I challenged the folks at Flickr/Ludicorp to steal my idea for Quinset, riffing off this quote: "The Flickr folk succeed, essentially, by stealing damn near every single great idea that's floating around on the Internet." It's just me crying out for attention. Quinset needs an official partner in the photo blogging space, as well as the blog-provider space.

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Here are some words of encouragement when I think I've totally spun off into the unreality of my own mind: Fanaticism Is The Secret Weapon

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Shhhh, the voices are whispering something... It's becoming clear to me that there are two distinct aspects of Quinset: There's the Quinset Contest Format and the Quinset Contest Platform. The features of the Quinset Contest Format are: 1. Contests entries are divided into sets of five (Quinsets). 2. Each Quinset is judged by three judges 3. The judges are paid for their work by a portion of

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Towards the end of my conversion with John at Drake Associates, he asked me a very simple question: What can Drake Associates do for you? I didn't have an answer to that question. Here's a tip: Know going into a meeting what you want coming out of the meeting. Actually, I'm being a little hard on myself. I knew I didn't know what I wanted, but I got what I wanted. Make sense? I came out of

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I came across guidelines for submitting a business plan to a venture capital company called Ignition (catchy name). The good news is they look for a 15-page business plan. The thought of writing a 20+ page document gives me hives. Funny how I don't freak out about writing 20+ pages of code, but a Word doc that big is nauseating. The most useful information in the guidelines are the questions

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I had a very nice conversation this morning with John Dmohowski of Drake Associates. Drake is a consulting shop that I learned about because they host Carnival of the Capitalists. This is the first conversation about Quinset I've had with someone in the biz dev field. John was very gracious and candid, and gave me a lot to think about to further develop Quinset. The biggest question I

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Here's an article that nails why I think Quinset has legs: The Internet And the Death Of 80/20

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There were several considerations that went into the naming of Quinset. First, it had to be a name for which the domain was available. Because this is an online venture, it's imperative that the Web site be easy to locate. The name and the domain had to be the same. This requirement drives the second - I wanted a unique name. There are several features of Quinset that differentiate it from a

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Sometime last April or May, during my daily trek from work to home, NPR broadcast a story about a group of poor musicians in Durban, South Africa who held a contest at the local YMCA gym. They collected a modest entry fee from contestants that covered expenses and prize money. The result was a lively musical event that attracted a large audience. I thought it was a terrific idea - a system of

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My apologies. My blog host is coughing up a hairball. Hopefully they will fix this soon. Update: seems to be working OK now.

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This is as much a reminder to myself to explore the Carnival of the Capitalists. Looks like a very interesting collection of articles, and it's recommended by The Entrepreneurial Mind .

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Below is some very good feedback I got from someone at Ecademy: "I had a quick look at your new service [Quinset].. I guess it could also be a product. Its a great idea. One bit of feedback if you don't mind. If I did not know what the site was about when I went to it I may not have known for a good few paragraphs.. If I was the average web visitor you had about 3 seconds to hold my attention.

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Three days ago I didn't know of any business networking Web sites, now I know of four and have joined three. Ryze.com Ecademy.com LinkedIn.com Soflow.com Ryze seemed to be saturated by multi-level marketing. Ecademy is feature-rich and looks good, but it looks like it's primarily based in the UK. It also has a motivational-speaker pungence that's a little bothersome. An online aquaintence

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Within the last week, I've heard three recommendations for Mozilla's Firefox Web browser. These were three widely divergent sources - first I saw a recommendation on Omidyar.net, then an IT technician recommended Firefox to my wife at work, then this morning it came up in a story on NPR. So today we're downloading it and will install it over the weekend. This development raises some anxiety,

Jim Burschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06161982479384873439noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6967862.post-1096592468811582232004-09-30T17:57:00.000-07:002004-09-30T18:01:08.810-07:00

It's nice to see sensible advice for developing a business. Here's my favorite quote: "... a business plan starts with you and your needs. And equally important, it provides a process that helps you learn about the business. It is a process with many exit points that you need to pay attention to so you don't get in too far too fast." Source: Jeff Cornwall "The Entrepreneurial Mind"

Jim Burschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06161982479384873439noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6967862.post-1096590275900116242004-09-30T17:21:00.000-07:002004-09-30T17:24:35.900-07:00

The following was originally posted at Omidyar.net. The question related to the pros and cons of publicly developing a business plan, seeking public input in the process. Here's my thinking on the question and why I decided to "go public" with the development of the business plan for Quinset. Since I don't have closed access to the kind of people I think I need to expose the business plan to,

Jim Burschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06161982479384873439noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6967862.post-1096589142592302342004-09-30T16:40:00.000-07:002004-09-30T17:05:42.593-07:00

For the last few months I've been developing Quinset in my head and on my computer, two very unreal places. The time has come in the process to get other people involved. You can go only so far in your own world. It's time to strike out and share this thing with other worlds. To that end, I've been trying to figure out a comfortable way to network. Networking on its face is aversive. It means

Jim Burschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06161982479384873439noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6967862.post-1096567577104384132004-09-30T11:02:00.000-07:002004-09-30T11:06:17.103-07:00

Well, I'm hooked. After tapping in to rss feeds at Bloglines, I can say I now get blogs. Now I'm overwhelmed with what I'm finding. Stay tuned.

Jim Burschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06161982479384873439noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6967862.post-1084377904916176572004-05-12T09:03:00.000-07:002004-05-12T09:05:04.916-07:00

I'm new to blogging, and I have to admit, I'm not sure if this is a vacuous trend or something real.

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