I can't get past i): did the sugar daddy ever make his hand felt at all? Did he like or dislike any (of the/) music? Is our main chance for DDR funding from Tanya Headon?
Sorry for completely avoiding the rest of the post, I just am really fascinated by the setup. Also I have little to say about the rest.
how i felt the handdubdobdeeMay 2 2007, 09:19:50 UTC
i. the mag's founder anth0ny w00d wz bought out and dismissed when it became obvious his original concept of the mag wd not fly (at least w.him at the helm
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One possibility is that people just send me money to live and travel on and I do whatever I want and anyone who interacts with me is therefore in the Department Of Dilettante Research. (I suspect that this won't get me the membership I desire, however.) Perhaps I would sell subscriptions to an annual ball in my name and I would live off of the money raised this way. (Several characters in Luc Sante's Low Life did this; presumably they'd have been derelicts if these schemes hadn't paid off
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One possibility is that people just send me money to live and travel on
Would you care to put a figure on that?
One fairly laughable (no offence) aspect of the DDR discussion so far is that ppl are carefully avoiding doing a cost-benefit analysis of it.
(P.S. the above two sentences are not necessarily connected. Do not let taking umbrage at the second overshadow the important question in the first. I am trying to be helpful as well as inject some realism.)
i couldn't begin to do a cost-benefit (esp.when we have no notion yet what shape this thing is going to be), but in practical terms i probably know a lot about how many people it takes to run something like a messageboard or a magazine
and i brought up the netroot blogs et al bcz some of them do actually pay for themselves as full-time propositions -- duncan black's job is being atrios, so there's a model there somewhere, maybe, somehow
Could we not persuade Bill Gates that Frank Kogan can save the world and get him to donate large amounts of cash?
Or imagine some kind of great internet business model which we would use as a trojan horse i.e. get ludicrous amounts of startup funding from someone seduced by web 2.0, but spend it all on the DDR and then laugh at the investors when great i b m goes tits up. ALternatively we could just make our fortunes off the g i b m and use that to fund the DDR.
But seriously -- great post from the judge, sensible response coming later in the day.
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Sorry for completely avoiding the rest of the post, I just am really fascinated by the setup. Also I have little to say about the rest.
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(The other points are good too of course, I will not pick favourites.)
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Would you care to put a figure on that?
One fairly laughable (no offence) aspect of the DDR discussion so far is that ppl are carefully avoiding doing a cost-benefit analysis of it.
(P.S. the above two sentences are not necessarily connected. Do not let taking umbrage at the second overshadow the important question in the first. I am trying to be helpful as well as inject some realism.)
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Or imagine some kind of great internet business model which we would use as a trojan horse i.e. get ludicrous amounts of startup funding from someone seduced by web 2.0, but spend it all on the DDR and then laugh at the investors when great i b m goes tits up. ALternatively we could just make our fortunes off the g i b m and use that to fund the DDR.
But seriously -- great post from the judge, sensible response coming later in the day.
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