{"id":514,"date":"2011-02-23T06:33:42","date_gmt":"2011-02-23T12:33:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/gazette\/2011\/02\/23\/110224_randomthursday\/"},"modified":"2022-05-25T16:45:17","modified_gmt":"2022-05-25T21:45:17","slug":"110224_randomthursday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2011\/02\/23\/110224_randomthursday\/","title":{"rendered":"Random Thursday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some triviata while wondering about the real difference between <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2011\/POLITICS\/02\/24\/wisconsin.budget.prank\/\">a prank call<\/a> and outright lying to get an interview.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I wrote <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2011\/02\/110217-randomthursday.html\">last week<\/a> about &#8220;investing&#8221; in a venture via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/\">KickStarter<\/a> that will produce a stylus cap to use with devices with capacitive touch screens. I&#8217;m pleased to report that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/donlehman\/more-real-stylus-cap\/posts\/56202\">the project has been fully funded<\/a> (over-funded, in fact) and is moving into the &#8220;refinement&#8221; phase. If all goes well, the product should enter the manufacturing phase in April, and ship beginning in late April or early May. It&#8217;s fascinating to follow the progress of an idea from conception to sales.<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-top: 1em;\">A logical extension of the KickStarter concept would be to allow ordinary people to become venture capitalists on a micro scale. As it stands, &#8220;backers&#8221; are repaid with product at reduced prices, but don&#8217;t share in any profits. It would be a logistical challenge, but I wonder how the dynamics of the backer concept might change if the rewards for backing a concept were tied more directly to the commercial success of the project?<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-top: 1em;\">I link regularly to Seth Godin&#8217;s articles, because doing so makes me look smarter. Here&#8217;s another insightful look at the way the web has changed a fundamental aspect of society: <a href=\"http:\/\/sethgodin.typepad.com\/seths_blog\/2011\/02\/asymmetrical-mass-favors-a-tragedy-of-our-commons.html\"><i>Asymmetrical mass favors, a tragedy of our commons<\/i><\/a>. And here&#8217;s his next-day follow-up, describing the flip side: <i><a href=\"http:\/\/sethgodin.typepad.com\/seths_blog\/2011\/02\/a-flip-side-the-asymmetrical-gift.html\">the asymmetrical gift<\/a><\/i>.<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-top: 1em;\">Say, is it OK for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jonacuff.com\/stuffchristianslike\/2009\/01\/remix-31-occasionally-swearing\/\">Christians to curse<\/a>?<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-top: 1em;\">I linked to the following video via Facebook yesterday but I think it&#8217;s worth sharing here. It&#8217;s a brief look into the workday of a Foley artist &#8211; the creative types who come up with sound effects to match the action on a movie screen. (And, for the record, the reality isn&#8217;t all that far removed from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0071853\/quotes?qt0470586\">Monty Python&#8217;s <i>Holy Grail<\/i> shtick<\/a>.) [Link via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.neatorama.com\/2011\/02\/23\/the-man-behind-the-movie-sounds\/\">Neatorama<\/a>]\n<div style=\"text-align: center; margin-top: 1em;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/11436985?byline=0&amp;portrait=0\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-top: 1em;\">One of the frequent requests I get from clients is to add copyright notices to their websites. It&#8217;s a common misconception that such notices are required in order to have an enforceable copyright, but in fact such a notice is not required under US law. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.templetons.com\/brad\/copymyths.html\">Here&#8217;s a great article<\/a>, written in layman&#8217;s terms, that clears up some other common misunderstanding about copyrights.<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-top: 1em;\">I&#8217;ve swum with sharks, with rays, with turtles, with barracuda, with moray eels, and with porpoises, <a href=\"http:\/\/ngm.nationalgeographic.com\/2011\/03\/fossil-fish\/ballesta-photography\">but never with a coelacanth<\/a>. I like fish that grin.<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-top: 1em;\">Got a new wireless laser printer this week, replacing my almost-eight-years old HP Laserjet. There&#8217;s nothing wrong with the HP, but it needs a new toner cartridge, which is around $120. The new printer, a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brother-usa.com\/printer\/modeldetail.aspx?PRODUCTID=HL2270DW\">Brother HL-2270DW<\/a>, was a whopping $94 plus shipping. Sort of a no-brainer. I may do a more complete review on it if I find time, but I&#8217;m overall quite happy with it, despite a couple of quirks.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some triviata while wondering about the real difference between a prank call and outright lying to get an interview. I wrote last week about &#8220;investing&#8221; in a venture via KickStarter that will produce a stylus cap to use with devices with capacitive touch screens. I&#8217;m pleased to report that the project has been fully funded&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2011\/02\/23\/110224_randomthursday\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Random Thursday<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-thursday","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=514"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10375,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514\/revisions\/10375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}