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A man of few words, with an average number of fingers.
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Great article, and now all I can think about is how hard I laughed at Stephen Colbert's take on repackaging/curation as a business model. Behold: http://www.colbertnation.com/ColbuffingtonRe-post
On a show recently, he called out huffpo for having based an entire section of their site on repackaged excepts from Colbert's show. I get the sense he's not actually complaining (believe the rule is he is ALWAYS being sarcastic), and syndication is generally a good thing... but we must not forget to actually create original work sometimes.
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I think the number one reason I fail to blog (I've had a blog in the past, its not up any more) is because it just takes too damn long. In fact writing anything coherent and useful can be a real challenge, especially without ruthless daily practice. When I do write, I absolutely obsess over every word. I make multiple passes to ensure I haven't included too many filler words, and to re-arrange and re-assembe my ideas. Chunk of a sentence, a half a paragraph: copy-paste, rinse, repeat.
I also find that when I'm truly inspired or otherwise motivated by a topic, eloquence sort of comes naturally. This is a big part of successful writing - giving a damn!
Best alter ego EVAR! also furriest
This is Chris @ livefyre FYI, we just did some stuff to get things moving again. Thanks so much for hammering our servers so we can learn and make the system better! I'm serious.
DannyBrown It was very much like a simple forum with realtime message display. The investors we were talking to back then became convinced we were on to something, but not enough to complete the first round of funding. We had already found it difficult, or at least very time consuming, to get people to show up on the site for discussions. It was working but only with a lot of link-pushing via our twitter accounts and facebook pages. The idea for a distributed comment platform grew out of all that. People seem less likely to visit another new destination site as opposed to using a tool that can follow them across the web's plethora of discussable content.
The hardest part of the transition was technology - and we're still learning just what it means to build a platform that has to work anywhere and everywhere, in real-time and across domains (browser security limitations make this an incredible challenge.) Its also a wild world of html/css/javascript out there and you have to be defensive to ensure that things look and feel consistent on every site.
DannyBrown As a proud member of the team, I can tell you there is a certain magic we feel when we directly experience our tech working out in the real world. It happened for the first time when we launched our second prototype at SXSW in March, but today felt like we have come so far since then (back when you had to visit livefyre.com to see the magic - we didn't even have a distributed platform!)
We're looking forward very much to the next year++ of Livefyre-powered growth, innovation, and hell lets be honest - REVOLUTION!
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